Creating executable device nodes in /dev?
Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Nov 2020 16:17:08 +0000
| Newsgroups | org.kernel.vger.linux-hotplug,org.kernel.vger.linux-sgx |
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Hi udev people- The upcoming Linux SGX driver has a device node /dev/sgx. User code opens it, does various setup things, mmaps it, and needs to be able to create PROT_EXEC mappings. This gets quite awkward if /dev is mounted noexec. Can udev arrange to make a device node executable on distros that make /dev noexec? This could be done by bind-mounting from an exec tmpfs. Alternatively, the kernel could probably learn to ignore noexec on /dev/sgx, but that seems a little bit evil. Thanks, Andy