Hi
2024. május 23., csütörtök 1:23 keltezéssel, Andrew Morton <[email protected]> írta: > On Wed, 15 May 2024 23:11:12 -0700 Jeff Xu <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 12:15 PM Barnabás Pőcze <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > `MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL` should remove the executable bits and set > > > `F_SEAL_EXEC` to prevent further modifications to the executable > > > bits as per the comment in the uapi header file: > > > > > > not executable and sealed to prevent changing to executable > > > > > > However, currently, it also unsets `F_SEAL_SEAL`, essentially > > > acting as a superset of `MFD_ALLOW_SEALING`. Nothing implies > > > that it should be so, and indeed up until the second version > > > of the of the patchset[0] that introduced `MFD_EXEC` and > > > `MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL`, `F_SEAL_SEAL` was not removed, however it > > > was changed in the third revision of the patchset[1] without > > > a clear explanation. > > > > > > This behaviour is suprising for application developers, > > > there is no documentation that would reveal that `MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL` > > > has the additional effect of `MFD_ALLOW_SEALING`. > > > > > Ya, I agree that there should be documentation, such as a man page. I will > > work on that. > > > > > So do not remove `F_SEAL_SEAL` when `MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL` is requested. > > > This is technically an ABI break, but it seems very unlikely that an > > > application would depend on this behaviour (unless by accident). > > > > > > [0]: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > > [1]: > > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ > > > > ... > > > > Reviewed-by: Jeff Xu <[email protected]> > > It's a change to a userspace API, yes? Please let's have a detailed > description of why this is OK. Why it won't affect any existing users. Yes, it is a uAPI change. To trigger user visible change, a program has to - create a memfd - with MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, - without MFD_ALLOW_SEALING; - try to add seals / check the seals. This change in essence reverts the kernel's behaviour to that of Linux <6.3, where only `MFD_ALLOW_SEALING` enabled sealing. If a program works correctly on those kernels, it will likely work correctly after this change. I have looked through Debian Code Search and GitHub, searching for `MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL`. And I could find only a single breakage that this change would case: dbus-broker has its own memfd_create() wrapper that is aware of this implicit `MFD_ALLOW_SEALING` behaviour[0], and tries to work around it. This workaround will break. Luckily, however, as far as I could tell this only affects the test suite of dbus-broker, not its normal operations, so I believe it should be fine. I have prepared a PR with a fix[1]. > > Also, please let's give consideration to a -stable backport so that all > kernel versions will eventually behave in the same manner. > > I think that is a good idea, should I resend this with the `Cc: stable@...` tag or what should I do? Regards, Barnabás Pőcze [0]: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/blob/9eb0b7e5826fc76cad7b025bc46f267d4a8784cb/src/util/misc.c#L114 [1]: https://github.com/bus1/dbus-broker/pull/366
