free,stat: make NOEXEC

pkill/pgrep/pidof uncovered another quirk: what about noexec's _process names_?

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst b/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
index 70f38d867..8ec3bdbe6 100644
--- a/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
+++ b/NOFORK_NOEXEC.lst
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ leak categories.
 
 Why can't be NOEXEC:
 suid: runs under different uid - must fork+exec
+if it's important that /proc/PID/cmdline and comm are correct.
+        ("pkill sh" killing itself before it kills real "sh" is no fun)
 
 Why shouldn't be NOFORK/NOEXEC:
 rare: not started often enough to bother optimizing (example: poweroff)
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ flash_unlock - hardware
 flashcp - hardware
 flock - spawner, changes state (file locks), let's play safe and not be noexec
 fold - noexec. runner
-free - nofork candidate(struct globals, needs to close /proc/meminfo fd)
+free - noexec. nofork candidate(struct globals, needs to close /proc/meminfo fd)
 freeramdisk - leaks: open+ioctl_or_perror_and_die
 fsck - interactive, longterm
 fsck.minix - needs ^C
@@ -172,7 +174,7 @@ inotifyd - daemon
 insmod - noexec
 install - runner
 ionice - noexec. spawner
-iostat - runner
+iostat - longterm: "iostat 1" runs indefinitely
 ip - noexec candidate
 ipaddr - noexec candidate
 ipcalc - noexec candidate
@@ -244,7 +246,7 @@ mv - noexec candidate, runner
 nameif - noexec. openlog(), leaks: config_open2+ioctl_or_perror_and_die
 nbd-client - noexec
 nc - runner
-netstat - runner with -c
+netstat - longterm with -c (continuous listing)
 nice - noexec. spawner
 nl - runner
 nmeter - longterm
@@ -257,13 +259,13 @@ partprobe - noexec. leaks: open+ioctl_or_perror_and_die(BLKRRPART)
 passwd - suid
 paste - noexec. runner
 patch - needs ^C
-pgrep - nofork candidate(xregcomp, procps_scan - are they ok?)
-pidof - nofork candidate(uses find_pid_by_name, is that ok?)
+pgrep - must fork+exec to get correct /proc/PID/cmdline and comm field
+pidof - must fork+exec to get correct /proc/PID/cmdline and comm field
 ping - suid, longterm
 ping6 - suid, longterm
 pipe_progress - longterm
 pivot_root - NOFORK
-pkill - nofork candidate(xregcomp, procps_scan - are they ok?)
+pkill - must fork+exec to get correct /proc/PID/cmdline and comm field
 pmap - noexec candidate, leaks: open+xstrdup
 popmaildir - runner
 poweroff - rare
@@ -329,7 +331,7 @@ sort - noexec. runner
 split - runner
 ssl_client - longterm
 start-stop-daemon - not noexec: uses bb_common_bufsiz1
-stat - nofork candidate(needs fewer allocs)
+stat - noexec. nofork candidate(needs fewer allocs)
 strings - runner
 stty - noexec. nofork candidate: has no allocs or opens except xmove_fd(xopen("-F DEVICE"),STDIN). tcsetattr(STDIN) is not a problem: it would work the same across processes sharing this fd
 su - suid, spawner
@@ -338,7 +340,7 @@ sum - runner
 sv - noexec. needs ^C (uses usleep(420000))
 svc - noexec. needs ^C (uses usleep(420000))
 svlogd - daemon
-swapoff - rare
+swapoff - longterm: may cause memory pressure, execing is beneficial
 swapon - rare
 switch_root - spawner, rare, changes state (oh yes), execing may be important to free binary's inode
 sync - NOFORK