linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] selinux: fix mprotect PROT_EXEC regression caused by mm change

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Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 2015 12:19:21 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Cc:	paul@...l-moore.com, hughd@...gle.com, prarit@...hat.com,
	mstevens@...oraproject.org, esandeen@...hat.com,
	david@...morbit.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	eparis@...hat.com, linux-mm@...ck.org, wagi@...om.org,
	selinux@...ho.nsa.gov, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] selinux: fix mprotect PROT_EXEC regression caused by mm
 change

On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 09:40:59 -0400 Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov> wrote:

> commit 66fc13039422ba7df2d01a8ee0873e4ef965b50b ("mm: shmem_zero_setup skip
> security check and lockdep conflict with XFS") caused a regression for
> SELinux by disabling any SELinux checking of mprotect PROT_EXEC on
> shared anonymous mappings.  However, even before that regression, the
> checking on such mprotect PROT_EXEC calls was inconsistent with the
> checking on a mmap PROT_EXEC call for a shared anonymous mapping.  On a
> mmap, the security hook is passed a NULL file and knows it is dealing with
> an anonymous mapping and therefore applies an execmem check and no file
> checks.  On a mprotect, the security hook is passed a vma with a
> non-NULL vm_file (as this was set from the internally-created shmem
> file during mmap) and therefore applies the file-based execute check and
> no execmem check.  Since the aforementioned commit now marks the shmem
> zero inode with the S_PRIVATE flag, the file checks are disabled and
> we have no checking at all on mprotect PROT_EXEC.  Add a test to
> the mprotect hook logic for such private inodes, and apply an execmem
> check in that case.  This makes the mmap and mprotect checking consistent
> for shared anonymous mappings, as well as for /dev/zero and ashmem.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>

Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>	[4.1.x]
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