[klibc] process '/usr/bin/rsync' started with executable stack
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Thu Jun 25 21:42:13 PDT 2020
Le 25/06/2020 à 22:20, Kees Cook a écrit :
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 01:04:29PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:39:24PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 07:51:48PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>>>> In Debian testing the initrd triggers the warning.
>>>>
>>>> [ 34.529809] process '/usr/bin/fstype' started with executable stack
>>>
>>> Where does fstype come from there? I am going to guess it is either
>>> busybox or linked against klibc?
>>>
>>> klibc has known problems with executable stacks due to its trampoline
>>> implementation:
>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/ExecutableStacks
>>
>> Yeah. It comes from klibc-utils.
>
> This is exactly what I was worried about back in Feb:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202002251341.48BC06E@keescook/
>
> This warning, combined with klibc-based initrds, makes the whole thing
> pointless because it will always warn once on boot for the klibc stack,
> and then not warn about anything else after that.
>
> It looks like upstream klibc hasn't been touched in about 4 years, and
> it's been up to Ben to keep it alive in Debian.
>
> A couple ideas, in order of my preference:
>
> 1) stop using klibc-utils[1]. initramfs-tools-core is the only thing with a
> dependency on klibc-utils. Only a few things are missing from busybox.
Does busybox cleanly build with klibc lib ?
If it does, is the result as small ?
>
> 2) make the warning rate-limited instead?
>
> 3) fix the use of trampolines in klibc
That's done, see
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/libs/klibc/klibc.git/commit/?id=9d8d648e604026b32cad00a84ed6c29cbd157641
Discussed here
https://lists.zytor.com/archives/klibc/2020-February/004271.html
Christophe
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -Kees
>
>
> [1] Ben appears well aware of this idea, as he suggested it in 2018. :)
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=887159
>
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