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Stanislav Kinsburskiy authored
This limitation came with the reason to remove "another way for malicious code to obscure a compromised program and masquerade as a benign process" by allowing "security-concious program can use this prctl once during its early initialization to ensure the prctl cannot later be abused for this purpose": http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133160684517468&w=2 This explanation doesn't look sufficient. The only thing "exe" link is indicating is the file, used to execve, which is basically nothing and not reliable immediately after process has returned from execve system call. Moreover, to use this feture, all the mappings to previous exe file have to be unmapped and all the new exe file permissions must be satisfied. Which means, that changing exe link is very similar to calling execve on the binary. The need to remove this limitations comes from migration of NFS mount point, which is not accessible during restore and replaced by other file system. Because of this exe link has to be changed twice. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up comment] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160927153755.9337.69650.stgit@localhost.localdomainSigned-off-by:
Stanislav Kinsburskiy <skinsbursky@virtuozzo.com> Acked-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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