linux-hardening - Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD

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Message-ID: <Y5yS8wCnuYGLHMj4@x1n>
Date:   Fri, 16 Dec 2022 10:46:59 -0500
From:   Peter Xu <peterx@...hat.com>
To:     Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...gle.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, jeffxu@...omium.org,
        skhan@...uxfoundation.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
        dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, dverkamp@...omium.org, hughd@...gle.com,
        jorgelo@...omium.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        jannh@...gle.com, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/6] mm/memfd: add MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC

Hi, Jeff,

On Thu, Dec 08, 2022 at 02:55:45PM -0800, Jeff Xu wrote:
> > > +     if (!(flags & (MFD_EXEC | MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL))) {

[...]

> > > +             pr_warn_ratelimited(
> > > +                     "memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, pid=%d '%s'\n",
> > > +                     task_pid_nr(current), get_task_comm(comm, current));

This will be frequently dumped right now with mm-unstable.  Is that what it
wanted to achieve?

[   10.822575] memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, pid=491 'systemd'
[   10.824743] memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL, pid=495 '(sd-executor)'
...

If there's already a sane default value (and also knobs for the user to
change the default) not sure whether it's saner to just keep it silent as
before?

-- 
Peter Xu