Since devtmpfs is writable, make the default noexec,nosuid as well. This
protects from the case of a privileged process having an arbitrary file
write flaw and an argumentless arbitrary execution (i.e. it would lack
the ability to run "mount -o remount,exec,suid /dev").

Cc: ellyjo...@chromium.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org>
Cc: Roland Eggner <ed...@systemanalysen.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org>

---
v2:
- use CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE to wrap the logic.
---
 drivers/base/Kconfig    |   12 ++++++++++++
 drivers/base/devtmpfs.c |   12 ++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/Kconfig b/drivers/base/Kconfig
index b34b5cd..a37fcf2 100644
--- a/drivers/base/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/base/Kconfig
@@ -56,6 +56,18 @@ config DEVTMPFS_MOUNT
          rescue mode with init=/bin/sh, even when the /dev directory
          on the rootfs is completely empty.
 
+config DEVTMPFS_SAFE
+       bool "Use nosuid,noexec mount options on devtmpfs"
+       depends on DEVTMPFS
+       help
+         This instructs the kernel to include the MS_NOEXEC and
+         MS_NOSUID mount flags when mounting devtmpfs. This prevents
+         certain kinds of code-execution attacks on embedded platforms.
+
+         Notice: If enabled, things like /dev/mem cannot be mmapped
+         with the PROT_EXEC flag. This can break, for example, non-KMS
+         video drivers.
+
 config STANDALONE
        bool "Select only drivers that don't need compile-time external 
firmware" if EXPERIMENTAL
        default y
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 147d1a4..bf85fbf 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -340,6 +340,10 @@ static int handle_remove(const char *nodename, struct 
device *dev)
 int devtmpfs_mount(const char *mntdir)
 {
        int err;
+       int mflags = MS_SILENT;
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE
+       mflags |= MS_NOEXEC | MS_NOSUID;
+#endif
 
        if (!mount_dev)
                return 0;
@@ -347,7 +351,7 @@ int devtmpfs_mount(const char *mntdir)
        if (!thread)
                return 0;
 
-       err = sys_mount("devtmpfs", (char *)mntdir, "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, 
NULL);
+       err = sys_mount("devtmpfs", (char *)mntdir, "devtmpfs", mflags, NULL);
        if (err)
                printk(KERN_INFO "devtmpfs: error mounting %i\n", err);
        else
@@ -369,10 +373,14 @@ static int devtmpfsd(void *p)
 {
        char options[] = "mode=0755";
        int *err = p;
+       int mflags = MS_SILENT;
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_SAFE
+       mflags |= MS_NOEXEC | MS_NOSUID;
+#endif
        *err = sys_unshare(CLONE_NEWNS);
        if (*err)
                goto out;
-       *err = sys_mount("devtmpfs", "/", "devtmpfs", MS_SILENT, options);
+       *err = sys_mount("devtmpfs", "/", "devtmpfs", mflags, options);
        if (*err)
                goto out;
        sys_chdir("/.."); /* will traverse into overmounted root */
-- 
1.7.9.5


-- 
Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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