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[35.230.43.183]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id g15-20020a17090ace8f00b002636e5c224asm573038pju.56.2023.06.29.16.25.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:25:05 -0700 (PDT) From: jeffxu@chromium.org To: skhan@linuxfoundation.org, keescook@chromium.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, dverkamp@chromium.org, hughd@google.com, jeffxu@google.com, jorgelo@chromium.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, jannh@google.com, linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org, linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Dominique Martinet Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: mm/memfd: vm.memfd_noexec Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 23:25:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20230629232501.4157671-1-jeffxu@google.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" From: Jeff Xu Add documentation for sysctl vm.memfd_noexec Link:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=3Dg= ZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/ Reported-by: Dominique Martinet Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu --- Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-= guide/sysctl/vm.rst index 45ba1f4dc004..71923c3d7044 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst @@ -424,6 +424,35 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation. =20 The default value is 65530. =20 +memfd_noexec: +=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D +This pid namespaced sysctl controls memfd_create(). + +The new MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC flags of memfd_create() allows +application to set executable bit at creation time. + +When MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL is set, memfd is created without executable bit +(mode:0666), and sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC, so it can't be chmod to +be executable (mode: 0777) after creation. + +when MFD_EXEC flag is set, memfd is created with executable bit +(mode:0777), this is the same as the old behavior of memfd_create. + +The new pid namespaced sysctl vm.memfd_noexec has 3 values: +0: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like + MFD_EXEC was set. +1: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like + MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL was set. +2: memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected. + +The default value is 0. + +Once set, it can't be downgraded at runtime, i.e. 2=3D>1, 1=3D>0 +are denied. + +This is pid namespaced sysctl, child processes inherit the parent +process's pid at the time of fork. Changes to the parent process +after fork are not automatically propagated to the child process. =20 memory_failure_early_kill: =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D --=20 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog