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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:33:03 +0200
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
To: Jeff Xu <jeffxu@...gle.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v19 1/5] exec: Add a new AT_CHECK flag to execveat(2)

* Jeff Xu:

> On Mon, Jul 8, 2024 at 9:26 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Jeff Xu:
>>
>> > Will dynamic linkers use the execveat(AT_CHECK) to check shared
>> > libraries too ?  or just the main executable itself.
>>
>> I expect that dynamic linkers will have to do this for everything they
>> map.
> Then all the objects (.so, .sh, etc.) will go through  the check from
> execveat's main  to security_bprm_creds_for_exec(), some of them might
> be specific for the main executable ?

If we want to avoid that, we could have an agreed-upon error code which
the LSM can signal that it'll never fail AT_CHECK checks, so we only
have to perform the extra system call once.

Thanks,
Florian

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