On Mon, Aug 26, 2019 at 12:32:03PM +0300, Lev Olshvang wrote:
> <div> </div><div> </div><div>I am in the process of developing patch to 
> restrict process ability to write to other process read-only 
> patch.</div><div> </div><div>I have sent this patch to kernel-hardening list 
> and waiting for a comments (this is my first patch to 
> kernel)</div><div>https://www.openwall.com/lists/kernel-hardening/2019/08/24/1</div><div>
>  </div><div> </div><div>Meanwhie I started to explore idea of restricting  
> process from writes to write enabled  pages of another process 
> vma.</div><div> </div><div>To my surprise ( I am not such esperienced) many 
> processes , systemd-journal, Xorg, dbus-server, konsole were caught by 
> highlkighted if below, but  system continues to WORK NORMALLY !</div><div> 
> </div><div>Can somedody to comment please ?</div><div> </div><div>Here is the 
> code snippet of function arch_vma_access_permitted()</div><div><div>static 
> inline bool arch_vma_access_permitted(struct vm_area_struct *vma,</div><div>  
>               bool write, bool execute, bool foreign)</div><div>{<!-- 
> --></div><div> </div><div> </div><div>        /* Forbid write to PROT_READ 
> pages of foreign process */</div><div>        if (write &amp;&amp; foreign 
> &amp;&amp; (!(vma-&gt;vm_flags &amp; VM_WRITE)))</div><div>                
> return false;</div><div>        <strong>/* Forbid write to write-enabled of 
> foreign process */</strong></div><div><strong>        if (current-&gt;mm 
> &amp;&amp;  current-&gt;mm != vma-&gt;vm_mm){<!-- 
> --></strong></div><div><strong>                if (current-&gt;in_execve) 
> {<!-- --></strong></div><div><strong>                return 
> true;</strong></div><div><strong>                
> }</strong></div><div><strong>        </strong></div><div><strong>             
>    pr_err("FOREIGN WRITE? current-&gt;mm != vma-&gt;vm_mm pid %d \n", 
> current-&gt;pid);</strong></div><div><strong>                return 
> false;</strong></div><div><strong>        }</strong></div><div> </div><div> 
> </div><div> </div></div>
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Hi Lev,

You sent this email as a html email rather than plain text. The only
thing that appears on my mutt mail client is a bunch of gibberish html.

You should send mails to the mailing lists by a plain text client like
mutt, thunderbird etc.

Thank you
Bharath


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