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Date:   Thu, 14 May 2020 08:22:01 -0400
From:   Stephen Smalley <stephen.smalley.work@...il.com>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/6] fs: Enable to enforce noexec mounts or file exec
 through O_MAYEXEC

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:05 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 04:27:39PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Like, couldn't just the entire thing just be:
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> > index a320371899cf..0ab18e19f5da 100644
> > --- a/fs/namei.c
> > +++ b/fs/namei.c
> > @@ -2849,6 +2849,13 @@ static int may_open(const struct path *path, int acc_mode, int flag)
> >               break;
> >       }
> >
> > +     if (unlikely(mask & MAY_OPENEXEC)) {
> > +             if (sysctl_omayexec_enforce & OMAYEXEC_ENFORCE_MOUNT &&
> > +                 path_noexec(path))
> > +                     return -EACCES;
> > +             if (sysctl_omayexec_enforce & OMAYEXEC_ENFORCE_FILE)
> > +                     acc_mode |= MAY_EXEC;
> > +     }
> >       error = inode_permission(inode, MAY_OPEN | acc_mode);
> >       if (error)
> >               return error;
> >
>
> FYI, I've confirmed this now. Effectively with patch 2 dropped, patch 3
> reduced to this plus the Kconfig and sysctl changes, the self tests
> pass.
>
> I think this makes things much cleaner and correct.

I think that covers inode-based security modules but not path-based
ones (they don't implement the inode_permission hook).  For those, I
would tentatively guess that we need to make sure FMODE_EXEC is set on
the open file and then they need to check for that in their file_open
hooks.