On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 11:14:04AM +0300, Lev R. Oshvang . wrote:

New sysctl is indeed required to allow userspace that places scripts
or libs under noexec mounts.

But since this is a not-uncommon environment, we must have the sysctl
otherwise this change would break those systems.

fs.mnt_noexec_strict =0 (allow, e) , 1 (deny any file with --x
permission), 2 (deny when O_MAYEXEC absent), for any file with ---x
permissions)

I don't think we want another mount option -- this is already fully
expressed with noexec and the system-wide sysctl.

-- 
Kees Cook