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SubjectRe: [tip:x86/mm] x86/mmap, ASLR: Do not treat unlimited-stack tasks as legacy mmap
On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Oleg Nesterov wrote:

> > We added a heuristics to treat applications with RLIMIT_STACK configured
> > to unlimited as legacy. This means:
>
> To me this also means a minor security problem. The comment above
> PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID says "must be cleared upon setuid or setgid exec",
> but if you do "ulimit -s unlimited" before suid exec then
> ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT set by security checks will be ignored.

Could you please be a bit more specific here?

mmap_is_legacy() *first* checks for the ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT in the
personality flags, and only then, if it's unset, RLIMIT_STACK comes to
play.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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