From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Adam Zabrocki <pi3@pi3.com.pl>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>
Subject: Re: Curiosity around 'exec_id' and some problems associated with it
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:34:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200330083446.GA13522@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202003291528.730A329@keescook>
On 03/29, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:50:49PM +0100, Adam Zabrocki wrote:
> >
> > In short, if you hold the file descriptor open over an execve() (e.g. share it
> > with child) the old VM is preserved (refcounted) and might be never released.
> > Essentially, mother process' VM will be still in memory (and pointer to it is
> > valid) even if the mother process passed an execve().
This was true after e268337dfe26dfc7efd422a804dbb27977a3cccc, but please see
6d08f2c7139790c ("proc: make sure mem_open() doesn't pin the target's memory"),
iir it was merged soon after the 1st commit.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-30 8:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-24 21:50 Curiosity around 'exec_id' and some problems associated with it Adam Zabrocki
2020-03-29 22:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-03-30 8:34 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2020-03-31 4:29 ` Adam Zabrocki
2020-04-01 20:47 ` [PATCH] signal: Extend exec_id to 64bits Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-01 20:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-01 21:03 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-01 23:37 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-01 23:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-01 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 1:35 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-02 2:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 13:11 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-02 18:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-04-02 4:46 ` Jann Horn
2020-04-02 14:14 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-04-03 2:11 ` Adam Zabrocki
2020-04-02 7:19 ` Kees Cook
2020-04-02 7:22 ` Bernd Edlinger
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