On Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 08:45:21AM +0000, Berg, Benjamin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2025-02-25 at 06:22 +0000, Lorenzo Stoakes wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 24, 2025 at 10:52:44PM +0000, jef...@chromium.org wrote:
> > > From: Jeff Xu <jef...@chromium.org>
> > >
> > > Provide support for CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS on UML, covering
> > > the vdso.
> > >
> > > Testing passes on UML.
> >
> > Maybe expand on this by stating that it has been confirmed by Benjamin (I
> > _believe_) that UML has no need for problematic relocation so this is known
> > to
> > be good.
>
> I may well be misreading this message, but this sounds to me that this
> is a misinterpretation. So, just to clarify in case that is needed.
>
> CONFIG_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS does work fine for the UML kernel.
> However, the UML kernel is a normal userspace application itself and
> for this application to run, the host kernel must have the feature
> disabled.
>
> So, UML supports the feature. But it still *cannot* run on a host
> machine that has the feature enabled.
Sigh ok. Apologies if I misunderstood.
Is there any point having this for the 'guest' system? I mean security wise are
we concerned about sealing of system mappings?
I feel like having this here might just add confusion and churn if it's not
useful.
If this is useless for UML guest, let's just drop this patch.
>
> Benjamin
>
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Xu <jef...@chromium.org>
> > > Tested-by: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.b...@intel.com>
> >
> > Anyway I know UML has at any rate been confirmed to be good to go +
> > patch looks
> > fine, so:
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoa...@oracle.com>
OK guess drop this tag please until we can figure this out, sorry Jeff.
> >
> > > ---
> > > arch/um/Kconfig | 1 +
> > > arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c | 6 ++++--
> > > 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/arch/um/Kconfig b/arch/um/Kconfig
> > > index 18051b1cfce0..eb2d439a5334 100644
> > > --- a/arch/um/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/arch/um/Kconfig
> > > @@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ config UML
> > > select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE
> > > select ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL
> > > select ARCH_HAS_KCOV
> > > + select ARCH_HAS_MSEAL_SYSTEM_MAPPINGS
> > > select ARCH_HAS_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
> > > select ARCH_HAS_STRNLEN_USER
> > > select HAVE_ARCH_AUDITSYSCALL
> > > diff --git a/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c b/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
> > > index f238f7b33cdd..fdfba858ffc9 100644
> > > --- a/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
> > > +++ b/arch/x86/um/vdso/vma.c
> > > @@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct
> > > linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
> > > {
> > > struct vm_area_struct *vma;
> > > struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
> > > + unsigned long vm_flags;
> > > static struct vm_special_mapping vdso_mapping = {
> > > .name = "[vdso]",
> > > };
> > > @@ -65,9 +66,10 @@ int arch_setup_additional_pages(struct
> > > linux_binprm *bprm, int uses_interp)
> > > return -EINTR;
> > >
> > > vdso_mapping.pages = vdsop;
> > > + vm_flags =
> > > VM_READ|VM_EXEC|VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC;
> > > + vm_flags |= VM_SEALED_SYSMAP;
> > > vma = _install_special_mapping(mm, um_vdso_addr,
> > > PAGE_SIZE,
> > > - VM_READ|VM_EXEC|
> > > - VM_MAYREAD|VM_MAYWRITE|VM_MAYEXEC,
> > > + vm_flags,
> > > &vdso_mapping);
> > >
> > > mmap_write_unlock(mm);
> > > --
> > > 2.48.1.658.g4767266eb4-goog
> > >
>
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