Re: [PATCH v3 14/15] exec: Use sane stack rlimit under secureexec

From: James Morris
Date: Wed Jul 19 2017 - 05:43:19 EST


On Tue, 18 Jul 2017, Kees Cook wrote:

> For a secureexec, before memory layout selection has happened, reset the
> stack rlimit to something sane to avoid the caller having control over
> the resulting layouts.
>
> $ ulimit -s
> 8192
> $ ulimit -s unlimited
> $ /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> unlimited
> $ sudo /bin/sh -c 'ulimit -s'
> 8192
>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx>


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