[PATCH] exec: Check __FMODE_EXEC instead of in_execve for LSMs

Kees Cook keescook at chromium.org
Wed Jan 24 19:22:32 UTC 2024


After commit 978ffcbf00d8 ("execve: open the executable file before
doing anything else"), current->in_execve was no longer in sync with the
open(). This broke AppArmor and TOMOYO which depend on this flag to
distinguish "open" operations from being "exec" operations.

Instead of moving around in_execve, switch to using __FMODE_EXEC, which
is where the "is this an exec?" intent is stored. Note that TOMOYO still
uses in_execve around cred handling.

Reported-by: Kevin Locke <kevin at kevinlocke.name>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZbE4qn9_h14OqADK@kevinlocke.name
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Fixes: 978ffcbf00d8 ("execve: open the executable file before doing anything else")
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett.org>
Cc: John Johansen <john.johansen at canonical.com>
Cc: Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge at hallyn.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn at nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy at linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm at kvack.org
Cc: apparmor at lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: linux-security-module at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
---
 security/apparmor/lsm.c  | 4 +++-
 security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/apparmor/lsm.c b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
index 7717354ce095..98e1150bee9d 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/lsm.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/lsm.c
@@ -469,8 +469,10 @@ static int apparmor_file_open(struct file *file)
 	 * Cache permissions granted by the previous exec check, with
 	 * implicit read and executable mmap which are required to
 	 * actually execute the image.
+	 *
+	 * Illogically, FMODE_EXEC is in f_flags, not f_mode.
 	 */
-	if (current->in_execve) {
+	if (file->f_flags & __FMODE_EXEC) {
 		fctx->allow = MAY_EXEC | MAY_READ | AA_EXEC_MMAP;
 		return 0;
 	}
diff --git a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
index 3c3af149bf1c..04a92c3d65d4 100644
--- a/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
+++ b/security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c
@@ -328,7 +328,8 @@ static int tomoyo_file_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
 static int tomoyo_file_open(struct file *f)
 {
 	/* Don't check read permission here if called from execve(). */
-	if (current->in_execve)
+	/* Illogically, FMODE_EXEC is in f_flags, not f_mode. */
+	if (f->f_flags & __FMODE_EXEC)
 		return 0;
 	return tomoyo_check_open_permission(tomoyo_domain(), &f->f_path,
 					    f->f_flags);
-- 
2.34.1




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