From: "David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David Hildenbrand (Arm)" <david@kernel.org>,
Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>,
"Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta)" <kas@kernel.org>,
"Pratyush Yadav (Google)" <pratyush@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v3 04/15] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:55:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261028-fixes_shmem-v3-4-4ce3baf2db4b@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261028-fixes_shmem-v3-0-4ce3baf2db4b@kernel.org>
From: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
The owner of a memfd sealed with F_SEAL_EXEC can still change its
execute bits by setting a POSIX access ACL. With CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL,
this lets an unprivileged owner make a non-executable memfd executable,
bypassing vm.memfd_noexec=2.
simple_set_acl() updates i_mode directly, bypassing the seal check in
shmem_setattr(). Add shmem_set_acl() to check the resulting mode. Share
the F_SEAL_EXEC check with shmem_setattr() using memfd_check_seals_mode()
in include/linux/memfd.h.
Fix generated by an LLM and sent by Chris Mason in private.
Fixes: 6fd7353829ca ("mm/memfd: add F_SEAL_EXEC")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <mason@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Pedro Falcato <pfalcato@suse.de>
Acked-by: Kiryl Shutsemau (Meta) <kas@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Pratyush Yadav (Google) <pratyush@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Gregory Price (Meta) <gourry@gourry.net>
[ david: use common helper; simplify description ]
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand (Arm) <david@kernel.org>
---
include/linux/memfd.h | 9 +++++++++
mm/shmem.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
2 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/memfd.h b/include/linux/memfd.h
index c159e40e3f34..272479317cf1 100644
--- a/include/linux/memfd.h
+++ b/include/linux/memfd.h
@@ -2,10 +2,19 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_MEMFD_H
#define __LINUX_MEMFD_H
+#include <linux/fcntl.h>
#include <linux/file.h>
#define MEMFD_ANON_NAME "[memfd]"
+static inline int memfd_check_seals_mode(unsigned int seals, umode_t old_mode,
+ umode_t new_mode)
+{
+ if ((seals & F_SEAL_EXEC) && ((old_mode ^ new_mode) & 0111))
+ return -EPERM;
+ return 0;
+}
+
#ifdef CONFIG_MEMFD_CREATE
extern long memfd_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned int arg);
struct folio *memfd_alloc_folio(struct file *memfd, pgoff_t idx);
diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index af21a89abb0f..e3e4bbbe1d80 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt __ro_after_init;
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <linux/fcntl.h>
+#include <linux/memfd.h>
#include <uapi/linux/memfd.h>
#include <linux/rmap.h>
#include <linux/uuid.h>
@@ -1546,10 +1547,11 @@ static int shmem_setattr(const struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
if (error)
return error;
- if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_EXEC) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
- if ((inode->i_mode ^ attr->ia_mode) & 0111) {
- return -EPERM;
- }
+ if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_MODE) {
+ error = memfd_check_seals_mode(info->seals, inode->i_mode,
+ attr->ia_mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
}
if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) {
@@ -5404,12 +5406,35 @@ static const struct file_operations shmem_file_operations = {
#endif
};
+#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL
+static int shmem_set_acl(const struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry,
+ struct posix_acl *acl, int type)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = d_inode(dentry);
+ umode_t mode = inode->i_mode;
+ int error;
+
+ if (type == ACL_TYPE_ACCESS) {
+ error = posix_acl_equiv_mode(acl, &mode);
+ if (error < 0)
+ return error;
+ error = memfd_check_seals_mode(SHMEM_I(inode)->seals,
+ inode->i_mode, mode);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+ }
+ return simple_set_acl(idmap, dentry, acl, type);
+}
+#else
+#define shmem_set_acl NULL
+#endif
+
static const struct inode_operations shmem_inode_operations = {
.getattr = shmem_getattr,
.setattr = shmem_setattr,
#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR
.listxattr = shmem_listxattr,
- .set_acl = simple_set_acl,
+ .set_acl = shmem_set_acl,
.fileattr_get = shmem_fileattr_get,
.fileattr_set = shmem_fileattr_set,
#endif
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-28 9:54 [PATCH v3 00/15] mm/shmem: various (urgent?) fixes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:54 ` [PATCH v3 01/15] mm/mempolicy: charge shared policy nodes David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:02 ` Balbir Singh
2026-10-28 10:06 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] tmpfs: keep the quota soft limits of an unused id David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] tmpfs: preserve explicitly disabled quota limits David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` David Hildenbrand (Arm) [this message]
2026-10-28 10:06 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] mm/shmem: honour F_SEAL_EXEC when an ACL is set Balbir Singh
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] hugetlbfs: enforce F_SEAL_EXEC in setattr David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 10:51 ` Oscar Salvador (SUSE)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] mm/shmem: hold off eviction in shmem_writeout() David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] mm/shmem: stop retrying folios that cannot be split David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] mm/shmem: preserve data in clean folios when splitting fails David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] mm/shmem: discard whole new large folios on fallocate rollback David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] mm/shmem: rescan after nonuniform folio splitting David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] mm/shmem: fix truncate hang in large swap entry David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] mm/shmem: preserve allocation errors when swapping in large entries David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] mm/shmem: fix truncate loop after boundary swapin failure David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 17:14 ` Nhat Pham
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] mm/shmem: fix accounting of swapin-error markers David Hildenbrand (Arm)
2026-10-28 9:55 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] mm/shmem: fix truncation of files containing only " David Hildenbrand (Arm)
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