linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v18 0/9] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create "secret" memory areas

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Message-ID: <YJl1LQvQuxxfGRnJ@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 21:02:21 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
To:     James Bottomley <jejb@...ux.ibm.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v18 0/9] mm: introduce memfd_secret system call to create
 "secret" memory areas

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 11:47:47AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-05-06 at 10:33 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 08:26:41AM -0700, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > What's happening with O_CLOEXEC in this code? I don't see that
> > mentioned in the cover letter either. Why is it disallowed? That
> > seems a strange limitation for something trying to avoid leaking
> > secrets into other processes.
> 
> I actually thought we forced it, so I'll let Mike address this.  I
> think allowing it is great, so the secret memory isn't inherited by
> children, but I can see use cases where a process would want its child
> to inherit the secrets.

We do not enforce O_CLOEXEC, but if the user explicitly requested O_CLOEXEC
it would be passed to get_unused_fd_flags().

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.