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SubjectRe: [patch] honour MNT_NOEXEC for access()
On 08/10/06, Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> wrote:
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> Also, I guess there's the general question of what the noexec mount flag
> really means? Does it mean "make the execve syscall fail", or does it
> mean "no bits on this filesystem may be interpreted as instructions".
> The former is simple to implement, but probably not very useful; the
> latter is not possible to implement in general.
>

As I see it, what we can resonably do with 'noexec' is
- make execve() fail.
- make access(), faccessat() return EACCESS for files stored on
'noexec' filesystems.
- make mmap(...PROT_EXEC...) fail for files stored on 'noexec' filesystems.

For things like /dev/shm we can additionally let 'noexec' mean "don't
allow executable shared memory".

Since we can't really prevent things like perl/php/bash/tcl/whatever
scripts from being executed/interpreted from there with this
mechanism, let's not worry about that. Leave that for things like
SELinux to deal with.

I don't think we can do much more with 'noexec'.


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