Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753324Ab2KTVIA (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:08:00 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:33193 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753139Ab2KTVH7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Nov 2012 16:07:59 -0500 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 21:13:12 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: Kees Cook Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , ellyjones@chromium.org, Kay Sievers , Roland Eggner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] devtmpfs: mount with noexec and nosuid Message-ID: <20121120211312.57f1b63d@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20121120204238.GA19554@www.outflux.net> References: <20121120204238.GA19554@www.outflux.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAFVBMVEWysKsSBQMIAwIZCwj///8wIhxoRDXH9QHCAAABeUlEQVQ4jaXTvW7DIBAAYCQTzz2hdq+rdg494ZmBeE5KYHZjm/d/hJ6NfzBJpp5kRb5PHJwvMPMk2L9As5Y9AmYRBL+HAyJKeOU5aHRhsAAvORQ+UEgAvgddj/lwAXndw2laEDqA4x6KEBhjYRCg9tBFCOuJFxg2OKegbWjbsRTk8PPhKPD7HcRxB7cqhgBRp9Dcqs+B8v4CQvFdqeot3Kov6hBUn0AJitrzY+sgUuiA8i0r7+B3AfqKcN6t8M6HtqQ+AOoELCikgQSbgabKaJW3kn5lBs47JSGDhhLKDUh1UMipwwinMYPTBuIBjEclSaGZUk9hDlTb5sUTYN2SFFQuPe4Gox1X0FZOufjgBiV1Vls7b+GvK3SU4wfmcGo9rPPQzgIabfj4TYQo15k3bTHX9RIw/kniir5YbtJF4jkFG+dsDK1IgE413zAthU/vR2HVMmFUPIHTvF6jWCpFaGw/A3qWgnbxpSm9MSmY5b3pM1gvNc/gQfwBsGwF0VCtxZgAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1346 Lines: 31 On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:42:38 -0800 Kees Cook wrote: > Since devtmpfs is writable, make the default noexec,nosuid as well. This > protects from the case of a privileged process having an arbitrary file > write flaw and an argumentless arbitrary execution (i.e. it would lack > the ability to run "mount -o remount,exec,suid /dev"). Ok this looks crap on two levels. 1. Why not just have your userspace mount -o remount the file system this way already in early boot. (and if you trojanned boot that early then any supposed security gain is already lost) 2. If you want to do this right then you need to work out what you are trying to prevent. Your devtmpfs can force file permissions on the underlying device nodes by having its own operation handling for chmod. At that point you can force permissions on anything that you want to avoid floating around that filesystem with other rights, while not touching it on device or directory nodes where the meaning is different. In its current form however it appears to be a kernel implementation of "mount is too hard". Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/