[PATCH 04/16] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set
From: David Hildenbrand (Arm)
Date: Mon Oct 26 2026 - 05:46:46 EST
From: Chris Mason <mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
The owner of a memfd sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC can still change its
execute bits by setting a POSIX access ACL. With CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL,
this lets an unprivileged owner make a non-executable memfd executable,
bypassing vm.memfd_noexec=2.
simple_set_acl() updates i_mode directly, bypassing the seal check in
shmem_setattr(). Add shmem_set_acl() to check the resulting mode. Share
the F_SEAL_EXEC check with shmem_setattr() using memfd_check_seals_mode()
in include/linux/memfd.h.
Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private.
Fixes: 6fd7353829ca ("mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ david: use common helper; simplify description ]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/linux/memfd.h | 9 +++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memfd.h b/include/linux/memfd.h
index c159e40e3f34a..272479317cf10 100644
--- a/include/linux/memfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/memfd.h
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_MEMFD_H
#define __LINUX_MEMFD_H
+#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#define MEMFD_ANON_NAME "[memfd]"
+static inline int memfd_check_seals_mode(unsigned int seals, umode_t old_mode,
+ umode_t new_mode)
+{
+ if ((seals & F_SEAL_EXEC) && ((old_mode ^ new_mode) & 0111))
+ return -EPERM;
+ return 0;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE
extern long memfd_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned int arg);
struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx);
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index d97fc32e7c942..86b9d19f26c7e 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt __ro_after_init;
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
+#include <linux/memfd.h>
#include <uapi/linux/memfd.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/uuid.h>
@@ -1549,10 +1550,11 @@ static int shmem_setattr(const struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
if (error)
return error;
- if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_EXEC) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
- if ((inode->i_mode ^ attr->ia_mode) & 0111) {
- return -EPERM;
- }
+ if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
+ error = memfd_check_seals_mode(info->seals, inode->i_mode,
+ attr->ia_mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
}
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) {
@@ -5400,12 +5402,35 @@ static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {
#endif
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
+static int shmem_set_acl(const struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct posix_acl *acl, int type)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
+ umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
+ int error;
+
+ if (type == ACL_TYPE_ACCESS) {
+ error = posix_acl_equiv_mode(acl, &mode);
+ if (error < 0)
+ return error;
+ error = memfd_check_seals_mode(SHMEM_I(inode)->seals,
+ inode->i_mode, mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }
+ return simple_set_acl(idmap, dentry, acl, type);
+}
+#else
+#define shmem_set_acl NULL
+#endif
+
static const struct inode_operations shmem_inode_operations = {
.getattr = shmem_getattr,
.setattr = shmem_setattr,
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
.listxattr = shmem_listxattr,
- .set_acl = simple_set_acl,
+ .set_acl = shmem_set_acl,
.fileattr_get = shmem_fileattr_get,
.fileattr_set = shmem_fileattr_set,
#endif
--
2.43.0