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From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Date:   Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:43:04 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 10:35 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 10:17:42 -0800
>
>>  - use deny_write_access() to make sure that we don't have active
>> writers and cannot get them during the execve.
>
> I agree that this is necessary for image validation purposes.

Module loading (via kernel_read_file()) already uses
deny_write_access(), and so does do_open_execat(). As long as module
loading doesn't call allow_write_access() before the execve() has
started in the new implementation, I think we'd be covered here.

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security