linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 4/5] mm: Add a NO_INHERIT flag to the PR_SET

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Date:   Tue,  4 Jul 2023 17:36:28 +0200
From:   Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, catalin.marinas@....com,
        anshuman.khandual@....com, joey.gouly@....com, mhocko@...e.com,
        keescook@...omium.org, david@...hat.com, peterx@...hat.com,
        izbyshev@...ras.ru, broonie@...nel.org, szabolcs.nagy@....com,
        kpsingh@...nel.org, gthelen@...gle.com, toiwoton@...il.com,
        Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 4/5] mm: Add a NO_INHERIT flag to the PR_SET_MDWE prctl

This extends the current PR_SET_MDWE prctl arg with a bit to indicate
that the process doesn't want MDWE protection to propagate to children.

To implement this no-inherit mode, the tag in current->mm->flags must be
absent from MMF_INIT_MASK. This means that the encoding for "MDWE but
without inherit" is different in the prctl than in the mm flags. This
leads to a bit of bit-mangling in the prctl implementation.

Signed-off-by: Florent Revest <revest@...omium.org>
---
 include/linux/sched/coredump.h   | 10 ++++++++++
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h       |  1 +
 kernel/fork.c                    |  2 +-
 kernel/sys.c                     | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h |  1 +
 5 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
index 0ee96ea7a0e9..1b37fa8fc723 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched/coredump.h
@@ -91,4 +91,14 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
 				 MMF_DISABLE_THP_MASK | MMF_HAS_MDWE_MASK)
 
 #define MMF_VM_MERGE_ANY	29
+#define MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT	30
+
+static inline unsigned long mmf_init_flags(unsigned long flags)
+{
+	if (flags & (1UL << MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT))
+		flags &= ~((1UL << MMF_HAS_MDWE) |
+			   (1UL << MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT));
+	return flags & MMF_INIT_MASK;
+}
+
 #endif /* _LINUX_SCHED_COREDUMP_H */
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
index 6e9af6cbc950..dacbe824e7c3 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
 /* Memory deny write / execute */
 #define PR_SET_MDWE			65
 # define PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN	(1UL << 0)
+# define PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT		(1UL << 1)
 
 #define PR_GET_MDWE			66
 
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index d17995934eb4..bc3c762d378f 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1284,7 +1284,7 @@ static struct mm_struct *mm_init(struct mm_struct *mm, struct task_struct *p,
 	hugetlb_count_init(mm);
 
 	if (current->mm) {
-		mm->flags = current->mm->flags & MMF_INIT_MASK;
+		mm->flags = mmf_init_flags(current->mm->flags);
 		mm->def_flags = current->mm->def_flags & VM_INIT_DEF_MASK;
 	} else {
 		mm->flags = default_dump_filter;
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 339fee3eff6a..1a2dc3da43ea 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -2362,19 +2362,41 @@ static int prctl_set_vma(unsigned long opt, unsigned long start,
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_ANON_VMA_NAME */
 
+static inline unsigned long get_current_mdwe(void)
+{
+	unsigned long ret = 0;
+
+	if (test_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE, &current->mm->flags))
+		ret |= PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN;
+	if (test_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT, &current->mm->flags))
+		ret |= PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT;
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static inline int prctl_set_mdwe(unsigned long bits, unsigned long arg3,
 				 unsigned long arg4, unsigned long arg5)
 {
+	unsigned long current_bits;
+
 	if (arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (bits & ~(PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN))
+	if (bits & ~(PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN | PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT))
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	/* NO_INHERIT only makes sense with REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN */
+	if (bits & PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT && !(bits & PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	current_bits = get_current_mdwe();
+	if (current_bits && current_bits != bits)
+		return -EPERM; /* Cannot unset the flags */
+
+	if (bits & PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT)
+		set_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT, &current->mm->flags);
 	if (bits & PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN)
 		set_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE, &current->mm->flags);
-	else if (test_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE, &current->mm->flags))
-		return -EPERM; /* Cannot unset the flag */
 
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -2384,9 +2406,7 @@ static inline int prctl_get_mdwe(unsigned long arg2, unsigned long arg3,
 {
 	if (arg2 || arg3 || arg4 || arg5)
 		return -EINVAL;
-
-	return test_bit(MMF_HAS_MDWE, &current->mm->flags) ?
-		PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN : 0;
+	return (int)get_current_mdwe();
 }
 
 static int prctl_get_auxv(void __user *addr, unsigned long len)
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
index 6e9af6cbc950..dacbe824e7c3 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h
@@ -284,6 +284,7 @@ struct prctl_mm_map {
 /* Memory deny write / execute */
 #define PR_SET_MDWE			65
 # define PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN	(1UL << 0)
+# define PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT		(1UL << 1)
 
 #define PR_GET_MDWE			66
 
-- 
2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog