[PATCH 1/2][Jammy linux] devtmpfs: mount with noexec and nosuid
Tim Gardner
tim.gardner at canonical.com
Tue Oct 11 16:29:11 UTC 2022
From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1991975
devtmpfs is writable. Add the noexec and nosuid as default mount flags
to prevent code execution from /dev. The systems who don't use systemd
and who rely on CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y are the ones to be protected by
this patch. Other systems are fine with the udev solution.
No sane program should be relying on executing from /dev. So this patch
reduces the attack surface. It doesn't prevent any specific attack, but
it reduces the possibility that someone can use /dev as a place to put
executable code. Chrome OS has been carrying this patch for several
years. It seems trivial and simple solution to improve the protection of
/dev when CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y.
Original patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20121120215059.GA1859@www.outflux.net/
Cc: ellyjones at chromium.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay at vrfy.org>
Cc: Roland Eggner <edvx1 at systemanalysen.net>
Co-developed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum at collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum at collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YcMfDOyrg647RCmd@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 28f0c335dd4a1a4b44b3e6c6402825a93132e1a4)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
drivers/base/Kconfig | 11 +++++++++++
drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 10 ++++++++--
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index ffcbe2bc460e..6f04b831a5c0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -62,6 +62,17 @@ config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory
on the rootfs is completely empty.
+config DEVTMPFS_SAFE
+ bool "Use nosuid,noexec mount options on devtmpfs"
+ depends on DEVTMPFS
+ help
+ This instructs the kernel to include the MS_NOEXEC and MS_NOSUID mount
+ flags when mounting devtmpfs.
+
+ Notice: If enabled, things like /dev/mem cannot be mmapped
+ with the PROT_EXEC flag. This can break, for example, non-KMS
+ video drivers.
+
config STANDALONE
bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external firmware"
default y
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index fa13ad49d211..f41063ac1aee 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
#include <uapi/linux/mount.h>
#include "base.h"
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE
+#define DEVTMPFS_MFLAGS (MS_SILENT | MS_NOEXEC | MS_NOSUID)
+#else
+#define DEVTMPFS_MFLAGS (MS_SILENT)
+#endif
+
static struct task_struct *thread;
static int __initdata mount_dev = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT);
@@ -370,7 +376,7 @@ int __init devtmpfs_mount(void)
if (!thread)
return 0;
- err = init_mount("devtmpfs", "dev", "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, NULL);
+ err = init_mount("devtmpfs", "dev", "devtmpfs", DEVTMPFS_MFLAGS, NULL);
if (err)
printk(KERN_INFO "devtmpfs: error mounting %i\n", err);
else
@@ -419,7 +425,7 @@ static noinline int __init devtmpfs_setup(void *p)
err = ksys_unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);
if (err)
goto out;
- err = init_mount("devtmpfs", "/", "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, NULL);
+ err = init_mount("devtmpfs", "/", "devtmpfs", DEVTMPFS_MFLAGS, NULL);
if (err)
goto out;
init_chdir("/.."); /* will traverse into overmounted root */
--
2.34.1
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