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Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2024 15:07:24 -0700
From: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...gle.com>
To: Steve Dower <steve.dower@...hon.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v19 2/5] security: Add new SHOULD_EXEC_CHECK and
SHOULD_EXEC_RESTRICT securebits
On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 2:25 PM Steve Dower <steve.dower@...hon.org> wrote:
>
> On 08/07/2024 22:15, Jeff Xu wrote:
> > IIUC:
> > CHECK=0, RESTRICT=0: do nothing, current behavior
> > CHECK=1, RESTRICT=0: permissive mode - ignore AT_CHECK results.
> > CHECK=0, RESTRICT=1: call AT_CHECK, deny if AT_CHECK failed, no exception.
> > CHECK=1, RESTRICT=1: call AT_CHECK, deny if AT_CHECK failed, except
> > those in the "checked-and-allowed" list.
>
> I had much the same question for Mickaël while working on this.
>
> Essentially, "CHECK=0, RESTRICT=1" means to restrict without checking.
> In the context of a script or macro interpreter, this just means it will
> never interpret any scripts. Non-binary code execution is fully disabled
> in any part of the process that respects these bits.
>
I see, so Mickaël does mean this will block all scripts.
I guess, in the context of dynamic linker, this means: no more .so
loading, even "dlopen" is called by an app ? But this will make the
execve() fail.
> "CHECK=1, RESTRICT=1" means to restrict unless AT_CHECK passes. This
> case is the allow list (or whatever mechanism is being used to determine
> the result of an AT_CHECK check). The actual mechanism isn't the
> business of the script interpreter at all, it just has to refuse to
> execute anything that doesn't pass the check. So a generic interpreter
> can implement a generic mechanism and leave the specifics to whoever
> configures the machine.
>
In the context of dynamic linker. this means:
if .so passed the AT_CHECK, ldopen() can still load it.
If .so fails the AT_CHECK, ldopen() will fail too.
Thanks
-Jeff
> The other two case are more obvious. "CHECK=0, RESTRICT=0" is the
> zero-overhead case, while "CHECK=1, RESTRICT=0" might log, warn, or
> otherwise audit the result of the check, but it won't restrict execution.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
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