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Date: Sat, 26 May 2018 18:33:23 -0700
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@...il.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
LSM List <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: prevent a task from writing on its own /proc/*/mem
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 5:32 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
> I went through some old threads from 2012 when e268337dfe26 was
> introduced, and later when things got looked at during DirtyCOW. There
> was discussion about removing FOLL_FORCE (in order to block writes on
> a read-only memory region).
Side note, we did that for /dev/mem, and things broke.
Thus commit f511c0b17b08 "Yes, people use FOLL_FORCE ;)"
Side note, that very sam ecommit f511c0b17b08 is also the explanation for
why the patch under discussion now seems broken.
People really do use "write to /proc/self/mem" as a way to keep the
mappings read-only, but have a way to change them when required.
Linus
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