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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2018 22:20:18 +0200
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: mmap flags
On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 09:37:43PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 9:31 PM, Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to have two new security-related mmap() flags on Linux:
> >
> > 1. MAP_NOCORE - same as FreeBSD already has, "Region is not included in
> > a core file." per their man page. We can now do similar by writing a
> > bitmask into /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter, but it's cumbersome (not
> > something a library would be OK doing because of its one security
> > sensitive and/or very large mapping needing this), low granularity (not
> > per mapping), and non-portable (MAP_NOCORE would be portable at least
> > between Linux and FreeBSD).
>
> Linux already has madvise(addr, len, MADV_DONTDUMP):
> http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/madvise.2.html
Oh, missed it. Thanks!
Maybe introduce MAP_NOCORE as well, for easier use and for compatibility
with FreeBSD? Should be trivial with MADV_DONTDUMP already in there.
> > 2. MAP_ZEROIZE (or whatever we call it) - zeroize the pages on unmap
> > (but not necessarily before the munmap() syscall returns), including on
> > [abnormal] process exit
Maybe MAP_WIPEONUNMAP and MADV_WIPEONUNMAP, for similarity with the
existing MADV_WIPEONFORK?
Alexander
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