[v3,0/5] MDWE without inheritance

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Florent Revest July 4, 2023, 3:36 p.m. UTC

Joey recently introduced a Memory-Deny-Write-Executable (MDWE) prctl which tags
current with a flag that prevents pages that were previously not executable from
becoming executable.
This tag always gets inherited by children tasks. (it's in MMF_INIT_MASK)

At Google, we've been using a somewhat similar downstream patch for a few years
now. To make the adoption of this feature easier, we've had it support a mode in
which the W^X flag does not propagate to children. For example, this is handy if
a C process which wants W^X protection suspects it could start children
processes that would use a JIT.

I'd like to align our features with the upstream prctl. This series proposes a
new NO_INHERIT flag to the MDWE prctl to make this kind of adoption easier. It
sets a different flag in current that is not in MMF_INIT_MASK and which does not
propagate.

As part of looking into MDWE, I also fixed a couple of things in the MDWE test.

This series applies on the mm-everything-2023-05-16-23-30 tag of the mm tree:
  https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm.git/

Diff since v2:
- Turned the MMF_INIT_FLAGS macro into a mmf_init_flags function as suggested by
  David Hildenbrand
- Removed the ability to transition from to PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN from
  (PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN | PR_MDWE_NO_INHERIT) which also significantly
  simplifies the prctl_set_mdwe logic
- Cc-ed -stable on patch 3 as suggested by Alexey Izbyshev
- Added a handful of Reviewed-by/Acked-by trailers

Diff since v1:
- MMF_HAS_MDWE_NO_INHERIT clears MMF_HAS_MDWE in the fork path as part of a
  MMF_INIT_FLAGS macro (suggested by Catalin)
- PR_MDWE_* are defined as unsigned long rather than int (suggested by Andrey)

Florent Revest (5):
  kselftest: vm: Fix tabs/spaces inconsistency in the mdwe test
  kselftest: vm: Fix mdwe's mmap_FIXED test case
  mm: Make PR_MDWE_REFUSE_EXEC_GAIN an unsigned long
  mm: Add a NO_INHERIT flag to the PR_SET_MDWE prctl
  kselftest: vm: Add tests for no-inherit memory-deny-write-execute

 include/linux/sched/coredump.h         |  10 +++
 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h             |   3 +-
 kernel/fork.c                          |   2 +-
 kernel/sys.c                           |  32 +++++--
 tools/include/uapi/linux/prctl.h       |   3 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/mm/mdwe_test.c | 113 +++++++++++++++++++++----
 6 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)