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Eric W. Biederman 90f8572b0f vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs.
Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files.  Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.

Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.

Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.

The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.

This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.

Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc.  Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2015-07-10 10:39:25 -05:00
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acpi Additional ACPICA material for v4.2-rc1 2015-07-02 17:11:28 -07:00
asm-generic - Support for HS38 cores based on ARCv2 ISA 2015-07-01 09:24:26 -07:00
clocksource ARM: 8366/1: move Dual-Timer SP804 driver to drivers/clocksource 2015-06-02 09:58:18 +01:00
crypto crypto: rng - Do not free default RNG when it becomes unused 2015-06-22 15:49:18 +08:00
drm drm: use kvfree() in drm_free_large() 2015-06-30 19:44:59 -07:00
dt-bindings The changes to the common clock framework for 4.2 are dominated by new 2015-07-01 19:22:00 -07:00
keys
kvm
linux vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs. 2015-07-10 10:39:25 -05:00
math-emu
media Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds 2015-07-01 19:09:11 -07:00
memory
misc cxl: Add AFU virtual PHB and kernel API 2015-06-03 13:27:20 +10:00
net net: Kill sock->sk_protinfo 2015-06-28 16:55:44 -07:00
pcmcia
ras tracing: add trace event for memory-failure 2015-06-24 17:49:43 -07:00
rdma IB/mad: Add final OPA MAD processing 2015-06-12 14:49:18 -04:00
rxrpc
scsi SCSI misc on 20150622 2015-06-23 15:55:44 -07:00
soc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm 2015-06-26 12:20:00 -07:00
sound ASoC: Further updates for v4.2 2015-06-22 11:32:41 +02:00
target Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending 2015-07-04 14:13:43 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2015-06-30 20:07:45 -07:00
uapi virtio/vhost: cross endian support 2015-07-03 16:02:25 -07:00
video Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2015-06-26 13:18:51 -07:00
xen xen/events: don't bind non-percpu VIRQs with percpu chip 2015-05-19 19:55:36 +01:00
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