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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-06-25 21:56:40 +0300
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-07-04 17:35:43 +0300
commit25cf336de51b51a3e440e1893751f9532095eff0 (patch)
tree152a69997c534ec9e769a59194f75e1f05819051 /include/linux
parent55e6074e3fa67e1fb9ec140904db7e6cae6eda4b (diff)
downloadlinux-25cf336de51b51a3e440e1893751f9532095eff0.tar.xz
exec: Remove do_execve_file
Now that the last callser has been removed remove this code from exec. For anyone thinking of resurrecing do_execve_file please note that the code was buggy in several fundamental ways. - It did not ensure the file it was passed was read-only and that deny_write_access had been called on it. Which subtlely breaks invaniants in exec. - The caller of do_execve_file was expected to hold and put a reference to the file, but an extra reference for use by exec was not taken so that when exec put it's reference to the file an underflow occured on the file reference count. - The point of the interface was so that a pathname did not need to exist. Which breaks pathname based LSMs. Tetsuo Handa originally reported these issues[1]. While it was clear that deny_write_access was missing the fundamental incompatibility with the passed in O_RDWR filehandle was not immediately recognized. All of these issues were fixed by modifying the usermode driver code to have a path, so it did not need this hack. Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/2a8775b4-1dd5-9d5c-aa42-9872445e0942@i-love.sakura.ne.jp/ v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/871rm2f0hi.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org v2: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87lfk54p0m.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702164140.4468-10-ebiederm@xmission.com Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Tested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/binfmts.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 4a20b7517dd0..7c27d7b57871 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -141,6 +141,5 @@ extern int do_execveat(int, struct filename *,
const char __user * const __user *,
const char __user * const __user *,
int);
-int do_execve_file(struct file *file, void *__argv, void *__envp);
#endif /* _LINUX_BINFMTS_H */