[PATCH v2] Documentation: mm/memfd: vm.memfd_noexec

[Jeff Xu]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 4:34 PM <jeffxu at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu at google.com>
>
Please ignore this, I resent V3 with a cover letter.

> Add documentation for sysctl vm.memfd_noexec
>
> Link:https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/CABi2SkXUX_QqTQ10Yx9bBUGpN1wByOi_=gZU6WEy5a8MaQY3Jw@mail.gmail.com/T/
> Reported-by: Dominique Martinet <asmadeus at codewreck.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu <jeffxu at google.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst | 30 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> index 45ba1f4dc004..621588041a9e 100644
> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/vm.rst
> @@ -424,6 +424,36 @@ e.g., up to one or two maps per allocation.
>
>  The default value is 65530.
>
> +memfd_noexec:
> +=============
> +This pid namespaced sysctl controls memfd_create().
> +
> +The new MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL and MFD_EXEC flags of memfd_create() allows
> +application to set executable bit at creation time.
> +
> +When MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL is set, memfd is created without executable bit
> +(mode:0666), and sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC, so it can't be chmod to
> +be executable (mode: 0777) after creation.
> +
> +when MFD_EXEC flag is set, memfd is created with executable bit
> +(mode:0777), this is the same as the old behavior of memfd_create.
> +
> +The new pid namespaced sysctl vm.memfd_noexec has 3 values:
> +0: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like
> +        MFD_EXEC was set.
> +1: memfd_create() without MFD_EXEC nor MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL acts like
> +        MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL was set.
> +2: memfd_create() without MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL will be rejected.
> +
> +The default value is 0.
> +
> +Once set, it can't be downgraded at runtime, i.e. 2=>1, 1=>0
> +are denied.
> +
> +This is pid namespaced sysctl, child processes inherit the parent
> +process's memfd_noexec at the time of fork. Changes to the parent
> +process after fork are not automatically propagated to the child
> +process.
>
>  memory_failure_early_kill:
>  ==========================
> --
> 2.41.0.255.g8b1d071c50-goog
>