This new MAY_EXECMOUNT flag enables to check if the underlying mount
point of an inode is marked as executable. This is useful to implement
a security policy taking advantage of the noexec mount option.
This flag is set according to path_noexec(), which checks if a mount
point is mounted with MNT_NOEXEC or if the underlying superblock is
SB_I_NOEXEC.
Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün <m...@digikod.net>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Trébuchet <philippe.trebuc...@ssi.gouv.fr>
Reviewed-by: Thibaut Sautereau <thibaut.sauter...@ssi.gouv.fr>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyp...@cyphar.com>
Cc: Al Viro <v...@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>
---
fs/namei.c | 2 ++
include/linux/fs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index a320371899cf..33b6d372e74a 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -2849,6 +2849,8 @@ static int may_open(const struct path *path, int
acc_mode, int flag)
break;
}
+ /* Pass the mount point executability. */
+ acc_mode |= path_noexec(path) ? 0 : MAY_EXECMOUNT;
error = inode_permission(inode, MAY_OPEN | acc_mode);
if (error)
return error;
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 313c934de9ee..79435fca6c3e 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb, loff_t
offset,
#define MAY_NOT_BLOCK 0x00000080
/* the inode is opened with O_MAYEXEC */
#define MAY_OPENEXEC 0x00000100
+/* the mount point is marked as executable */
+#define MAY_EXECMOUNT 0x00000200
/*
* flags in file.f_mode. Note that FMODE_READ and FMODE_WRITE must correspond
--
2.26.2
