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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output</title>
<updated>2021-03-07T10:24:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joe Perches</name>
<email>joe@perches.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-16T20:40:38+00:00</published>
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commit 2efc459d06f1630001e3984854848a5647086232 upstream.

Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf.

sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer length.

Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the
temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done.

Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple
call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done.

Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned.
Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/884235202216d464d61ee975f7465332c86f76b2.1600285923.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 2efc459d06f1630001e3984854848a5647086232 upstream.

Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf.

sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer
used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the
PAGE_SIZE buffer length.

Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the
temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done.

Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple
call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done.

Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned.
Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches &lt;joe@perches.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/884235202216d464d61ee975f7465332c86f76b2.1600285923.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: sysfs: Introduce sysfs_{un,}break_active_protection()</title>
<updated>2018-09-05T07:18:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bart Van Assche</name>
<email>bart.vanassche@wdc.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-08-02T17:51:40+00:00</published>
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commit 2afc9166f79b8f6da5f347f48515215ceee4ae37 upstream.

Introduce these two functions and export them such that the next patch
can add calls to these functions from the SCSI core.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 2afc9166f79b8f6da5f347f48515215ceee4ae37 upstream.

Introduce these two functions and export them such that the next patch
can add calls to these functions from the SCSI core.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche &lt;bart.vanassche@wdc.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>sysfs: be careful of error returns from ops-&gt;show()</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T10:38:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-03T01:30:34+00:00</published>
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commit c8a139d001a1aab1ea8734db14b22dac9dd143b6 upstream.

ops-&gt;show() can return a negative error code.
Commit 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
(in v4.4) caused this to be stored in an unsigned 'size_t' variable, so errors
would look like large numbers.
As a result, if an error is returned, sysfs_kf_read() will return the
value of 'count', typically 4096.

Commit 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
(in v4.8) extended this error to use the unsigned large 'len' as a size for
memmove().
Consequently, if -&gt;show returns an error, then the first read() on the
sysfs file will return 4096 and could return uninitialized memory to
user-space.
If the application performs a subsequent read, this will trigger a memmove()
with extremely large count, and is likely to crash the machine is bizarre ways.

This bug can currently only be triggered by reading from an md
sysfs attribute declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC() during the
brief period between when mddev_put() deletes an mddev from
the -&gt;all_mddevs list, and when mddev_delayed_delete() - which is
scheduled on a workqueue - completes.
Before this, an error won't be returned by the -&gt;show()
After this, the -&gt;show() won't be called.

I can reproduce it reliably only by putting delay like
	usleep_range(500000,700000);
early in mddev_delayed_delete(). Then after creating an
md device md0 run
  echo clear &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/array_state; cat /sys/block/md0/md/array_state

The bug can be triggered without the usleep.

Fixes: 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
Fixes: 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit c8a139d001a1aab1ea8734db14b22dac9dd143b6 upstream.

ops-&gt;show() can return a negative error code.
Commit 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
(in v4.4) caused this to be stored in an unsigned 'size_t' variable, so errors
would look like large numbers.
As a result, if an error is returned, sysfs_kf_read() will return the
value of 'count', typically 4096.

Commit 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
(in v4.8) extended this error to use the unsigned large 'len' as a size for
memmove().
Consequently, if -&gt;show returns an error, then the first read() on the
sysfs file will return 4096 and could return uninitialized memory to
user-space.
If the application performs a subsequent read, this will trigger a memmove()
with extremely large count, and is likely to crash the machine is bizarre ways.

This bug can currently only be triggered by reading from an md
sysfs attribute declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC() during the
brief period between when mddev_put() deletes an mddev from
the -&gt;all_mddevs list, and when mddev_delayed_delete() - which is
scheduled on a workqueue - completes.
Before this, an error won't be returned by the -&gt;show()
After this, the -&gt;show() won't be called.

I can reproduce it reliably only by putting delay like
	usleep_range(500000,700000);
early in mddev_delayed_delete(). Then after creating an
md device md0 run
  echo clear &gt; /sys/block/md0/md/array_state; cat /sys/block/md0/md/array_state

The bug can be triggered without the usleep.

Fixes: 65da3484d9be ("sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.")
Fixes: 17d0774f8068 ("sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs")
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Reported-and-tested-by: Miroslav Benes &lt;mbenes@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: correctly handle read offset on PREALLOC attrs</title>
<updated>2016-09-07T06:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konstantin Khlebnikov</name>
<email>khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru</email>
</author>
<published>2016-06-22T18:42:16+00:00</published>
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commit 17d0774f80681020eccc9638d925a23f1fc4f671 upstream.

Attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which returns
zero bytes for non-zero offset. This breaks script checkarray in mdadm tool
in debian where /bin/sh is 'dash' because its builtin 'read' reads only one
byte at a time. Script gets 'i' instead of 'idle' when reads current action
from /sys/block/$dev/md/sync_action and as a result does nothing.

This patch adds trivial implementation of partial read: generate whole
string and move required part into buffer head.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: 4ef67a8c95f3 ("sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.")
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 17d0774f80681020eccc9638d925a23f1fc4f671 upstream.

Attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read() which returns
zero bytes for non-zero offset. This breaks script checkarray in mdadm tool
in debian where /bin/sh is 'dash' because its builtin 'read' reads only one
byte at a time. Script gets 'i' instead of 'idle' when reads current action
from /sys/block/$dev/md/sync_action and as a result does nothing.

This patch adds trivial implementation of partial read: generate whole
string and move required part into buffer head.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov &lt;khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru&gt;
Fixes: 4ef67a8c95f3 ("sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.")
Link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787950
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform</title>
<updated>2015-11-14T05:53:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-14T05:53:18+00:00</published>
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Pull chrome platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here's the branch of chrome platform changes for v4.4.  Some have been
  queued up for the full 4.3 release cycle since I forgot to send them
  in for that round (rebased early on to deal with fixes conflicts).

  Most of these enable EC communication stuff -- Pixel 2015 support,
  enabling building for ARM64 platforms, and a few fixes for memory
  leaks.

  There's also a patch in here to allow reading/writing the verified
  boot context, which depends on a sysfs patch acked by Greg"

* tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform:
  platform/chrome: Fix i2c-designware adapter name
  platform/chrome: Support reading/writing the vboot context
  sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix possible leak in led_rgb_store()
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix leak in sequence_store()
  platform/chrome: Enable Chrome platforms on 64-bit ARM
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_dev - Add a platform device ID table
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Add support for Google Pixel 2
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Use existing function to check EC result
  platform/chrome: Make depends on MFD_CROS_EC instead CROS_EC_PROTO
  Revert "platform/chrome: Don't make CHROME_PLATFORMS depends on X86 || ARM"
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Pull chrome platform updates from Olof Johansson:
 "Here's the branch of chrome platform changes for v4.4.  Some have been
  queued up for the full 4.3 release cycle since I forgot to send them
  in for that round (rebased early on to deal with fixes conflicts).

  Most of these enable EC communication stuff -- Pixel 2015 support,
  enabling building for ARM64 platforms, and a few fixes for memory
  leaks.

  There's also a patch in here to allow reading/writing the verified
  boot context, which depends on a sysfs patch acked by Greg"

* tag 'chrome-platform-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/olof/chrome-platform:
  platform/chrome: Fix i2c-designware adapter name
  platform/chrome: Support reading/writing the vboot context
  sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix possible leak in led_rgb_store()
  platform/chrome: cros_ec: Fix leak in sequence_store()
  platform/chrome: Enable Chrome platforms on 64-bit ARM
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_dev - Add a platform device ID table
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Add support for Google Pixel 2
  platform/chrome: cros_ec_lpc - Use existing function to check EC result
  platform/chrome: Make depends on MFD_CROS_EC instead CROS_EC_PROTO
  Revert "platform/chrome: Don't make CHROME_PLATFORMS depends on X86 || ARM"
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2015-11-05T23:32:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T23:32:38+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1873499e13648a2dd01a394ed3217c9290921b3d'/>
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Pull security subsystem update from James Morris:
 "This is mostly maintenance updates across the subsystem, with a
  notable update for TPM 2.0, and addition of Jarkko Sakkinen as a
  maintainer of that"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (40 commits)
  apparmor: clarify CRYPTO dependency
  selinux: Use a kmem_cache for allocation struct file_security_struct
  selinux: ioctl_has_perm should be static
  selinux: use sprintf return value
  selinux: use kstrdup() in security_get_bools()
  selinux: use kmemdup in security_sid_to_context_core()
  selinux: remove pointless cast in selinux_inode_setsecurity()
  selinux: introduce security_context_str_to_sid
  selinux: do not check open perm on ftruncate call
  selinux: change CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE default
  KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data
  KEYS: Provide a script to extract a module signature
  KEYS: Provide a script to extract the sys cert list from a vmlinux file
  keys: Be more consistent in selection of union members used
  certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list
  KEYS: use kvfree() in add_key
  Smack: limited capability for changing process label
  TPM: remove unnecessary little endian conversion
  vTPM: support little endian guests
  char: Drop owner assignment from i2c_driver
  ...
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Pull security subsystem update from James Morris:
 "This is mostly maintenance updates across the subsystem, with a
  notable update for TPM 2.0, and addition of Jarkko Sakkinen as a
  maintainer of that"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (40 commits)
  apparmor: clarify CRYPTO dependency
  selinux: Use a kmem_cache for allocation struct file_security_struct
  selinux: ioctl_has_perm should be static
  selinux: use sprintf return value
  selinux: use kstrdup() in security_get_bools()
  selinux: use kmemdup in security_sid_to_context_core()
  selinux: remove pointless cast in selinux_inode_setsecurity()
  selinux: introduce security_context_str_to_sid
  selinux: do not check open perm on ftruncate call
  selinux: change CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_CHECKREQPROT_VALUE default
  KEYS: Merge the type-specific data with the payload data
  KEYS: Provide a script to extract a module signature
  KEYS: Provide a script to extract the sys cert list from a vmlinux file
  keys: Be more consistent in selection of union members used
  certs: add .gitignore to stop git nagging about x509_certificate_list
  KEYS: use kvfree() in add_key
  Smack: limited capability for changing process label
  TPM: remove unnecessary little endian conversion
  vTPM: support little endian guests
  char: Drop owner assignment from i2c_driver
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: added __compat_only_sysfs_link_entry_to_kobj()</title>
<updated>2015-10-18T23:01:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jarkko Sakkinen</name>
<email>jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-22T16:36:06+00:00</published>
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Added a new function __compat_only_sysfs_link_group_to_kobj() that adds
a symlink from attribute or group to a kobject. This needed for
maintaining backwards compatibility with PPI attributes in the TPM
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
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Added a new function __compat_only_sysfs_link_group_to_kobj() that adds
a symlink from attribute or group to a kobject. This needed for
maintaining backwards compatibility with PPI attributes in the TPM
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen &lt;jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: Support is_visible() on binary attributes</title>
<updated>2015-10-07T22:05:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Emilio López</name>
<email>emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-21T13:38:20+00:00</published>
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According to the sysfs header file:

    "The returned value will replace static permissions defined in
     struct attribute or struct bin_attribute."

but this isn't the case, as is_visible is only called on struct attribute
only. This patch introduces a new is_bin_visible() function to implement
the same functionality for binary attributes, and updates documentation
accordingly.

Note that to keep functionality and code similar to that of normal
attributes, the mode is now checked as well to ensure it contains only
read/write permissions or SYSFS_PREALLOC.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emilio López &lt;emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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According to the sysfs header file:

    "The returned value will replace static permissions defined in
     struct attribute or struct bin_attribute."

but this isn't the case, as is_visible is only called on struct attribute
only. This patch introduces a new is_bin_visible() function to implement
the same functionality for binary attributes, and updates documentation
accordingly.

Note that to keep functionality and code similar to that of normal
attributes, the mode is now checked as well to ensure it contains only
read/write permissions or SYSFS_PREALLOC.

Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Emilio López &lt;emilio.lopez@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson &lt;olof@lixom.net&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.</title>
<updated>2015-10-04T18:42:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>NeilBrown</name>
<email>neilb@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-05T22:27:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=65da3484d9be5664f5f7d2378e438bb2794f40b8'/>
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attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read()
which ignores the 'count' arg.
So a 1-byte read request can return more bytes than that.

This is seen with the 'dash' shell when 'read' is used on
some 'md' sysfs attributes.

So only return the 'min' of count and the attribute length.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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attributes declared with __ATTR_PREALLOC use sysfs_kf_read()
which ignores the 'count' arg.
So a 1-byte read request can return more bytes than that.

This is seen with the 'dash' shell when 'read' is used on
some 'md' sysfs attributes.

So only return the 'min' of count and the attribute length.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown &lt;neilb@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>vfs: Commit to never having exectuables on proc and sysfs.</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T15:39:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T19:42:03+00:00</published>
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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" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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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" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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