Re: [PATCH 0/2] exec: Use sane stack rlimit for setuid exec

[Kees Cook]

On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 1:04 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 7, 2017 at 12:56 PM, Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> As discussed with Linus and Andy, we need to reset the stack rlimit
>> before we do memory layouts when execing a privilege-gaining (e.g.
>> setuid) program. This moves security_bprm_secureexec() earlier (with
>> required changes), and then lowers the stack limit when appropriate.
>
> Looks sane to me, and that first patch looks like a nice cleanup
> regardless - the old semantics were insane.

I wonder if we could collapse all the secureexec logic in
setup_new_exec. There are three places (?). I was shy to consolidate
those in this patch in case there were weird dependencies on
dumpability ordering. But I'll go see if I can clean those up too...

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security