From: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
To: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@omprussia.ru>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-integrity <linux-integrity@vger.kernel.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Subject: Re: Should mprotect(..., PROT_EXEC) be checked by IMA?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:17:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1553793463.8711.26.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <07347317-ee71-83c1-384a-0c3439980af7@omprussia.ru>
[Cc'ing Kees]
On Fri, 2019-03-22 at 10:59 +0300, Igor Zhbanov wrote:
> On 21.03.2019 21:04, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 4:48 AM Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@omprussia.ru> wrote:
> >> Along with disabling creating anonymous executable pages at all since
> >> is is hardly needed for the system services for normal work.
> >
> > Is this true? Do no JIT compilers behave this way?
>
> Well, besides JIT I've scanned all /proc/PID/maps of my web-server and didn't
> find any process with mapped anonymous executable pages.
>
> As for JIT I suppose we could use prctl or something else to allow having
> anonymous executable pages.
>
> I'm pondering about some system-wide (or prosses subtree-wide) default
> setting controlling whether it is allowed to have anonymous pages by default,
> and then some mechanism to turn it on/off on a per-process bases. Perhaps
> with some locking preventing reenabling after it was dropped.
>
> And what do you think about it?
I just came across the grsecurity article on mprotect.[1] Has anyone
looked at it? Would it make sense to make it a minor LSM?
Mimi
[1]https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/mprotect.txt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-28 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-18 15:18 Should mprotect(..., PROT_EXEC) be checked by IMA? Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-18 21:48 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-19 7:50 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-19 11:22 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-19 12:19 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-19 17:05 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-20 8:11 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-20 17:23 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-03-20 18:08 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-21 11:21 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-21 11:48 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-21 18:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-03-22 7:59 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-28 17:17 ` Mimi Zohar [this message]
2019-03-29 10:00 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-03-29 10:59 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-29 11:51 ` Jordan Glover
2019-03-29 12:28 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-03-29 12:50 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-04-02 22:31 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-04-03 9:59 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-04-03 16:58 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-04-03 17:31 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-04-03 18:19 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-04-03 18:47 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-04-03 19:25 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-04-04 11:44 ` Igor Zhbanov
2019-04-03 12:11 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-04-03 13:18 ` Perez Yves-Alexis
2019-04-03 11:57 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-04-03 13:10 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-04-03 14:33 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-04-03 14:33 ` Stephen Smalley
2019-04-03 16:21 ` Mimi Zohar
2019-03-21 18:13 ` Matthew Garrett
2019-03-19 17:07 ` Matthew Garrett
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