On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Colin Percival wrote:

Tom Alsberg wrote:
Perhaps this should go to -STABLE, I just couldn't be sure.

It will get more attention on freebsd-stable@, so I'm CCing that list.

We are trying out FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE on diskless clients.  I
noticed one problem, being that when setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(or for that matter, LD_PRELOAD, and LD_LIBMAP_DISABLE) environment
variables, nothing will run, as /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 complains:

Cannot execute objects on /

According to the sources, this was added in 5.4, and will happen
if / is mounted noexec.

Yes, that's quite correct -- although I can't imagine how a bug which
caused / to be labelled as "noexec" managed to avoid causing major
problems until now.

I don't know anything about NFS, but hopefully someone on -stable
will be able to work out what's going on from the rest of your
email (quoted below).

Colin Percival

In this case, / is mounted by the BTX PXE loader over NFS (from a
FreeBSD 5.3 server, right now).  "mount" does not show the noexec
flag.  However, with the attached little C program I verified that
statfs really returns this flag (0x00000006).

Now, I see that on FreeBSD 5.3 diskless clients this flag is also
returned on / - just it happened that nobody looked at it until
the change in rtld.c of FreeBSD 5.4:

if (fs.f_flags & MNT_NOEXEC) {
        _rtld_error("Cannot execute objects on %s\n", fs.f_mntonname);
        close(fd);
        return NULL;
}

I didn't yet understand (didn't check much) - why does statfs report
the MNT_NOEXEC flag on the / filesystem (and only the / filesystem,
when it's mounted from NFS by the bootloader - not any other
NFS filesystems)?  BTW, this happens also with NetApp as the NFS
server - just to rule out any possibility of relation here.

  Ideas appreciated,
  -- Tom



------------------------------------------------------------------------

#include <stdio.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <sys/param.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    if (argc != 2) {
        fprintf(stderr, "invalid number of arguments");
        return -1;
    }

    struct statfs stbuf;

    if (statfs(argv[1], &stbuf) != 0) {
        perror("fstatfs");
        return -1;
    }

    printf("FLAGS: 0x%08X\n", stbuf.f_flags);
    if (stbuf.f_flags & MNT_NOEXEC)
        printf("MNT_NOEXEC\n");

    return 0;
}

I've managed to reproduce this with a simple:

www1# gcc -o noexec noexec.c
www1# umount /buildroot/
www1# mount nfs3:/export/vol1/build/BUILDROOT-WWW /buildroot
www1# ./noexec /buildroot/
exec
www1# umount /buildroot/
www1# mount -o -r=32768 nfs3:/export/vol1/build/BUILDROOT-WWW /buildroot
www1# ./noexec /buildroot/
noexec
www1#

Pretty funky shit this :).

PR: 85268
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85268

Anybody care to take a deeper look ?

--
Sten Spans

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen - Anthem
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