linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 5/8] exec: kill ->load_binary != NULL check in search_binary

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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:41:40 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Zach Levis <zml@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 5/8] exec: kill ->load_binary != NULL check in
	search_binary_handler()

search_binary_handler() checks ->load_binary != NULL for no reason,
this method should be always defined. Turn this check into WARN_ON()
and move it into __register_binfmt().

Also, kill the function pointer. The current code looks confusing,
as if ->load_binary can go away after read_unlock(&binfmt_lock).
But we rely on module_get(fmt->module), this fmt can't be changed
or unregistered, otherwise this code is buggy anyway.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 fs/exec.c |    7 +++----
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 577e98b..f0112f9 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -74,6 +74,8 @@ static DEFINE_RWLOCK(binfmt_lock);
 void __register_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt * fmt, int insert)
 {
 	BUG_ON(!fmt);
+	if (WARN_ON(!fmt->load_binary))
+		return;
 	write_lock(&binfmt_lock);
 	insert ? list_add(&fmt->lh, &formats) :
 		 list_add_tail(&fmt->lh, &formats);
@@ -1389,14 +1391,11 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	for (try=0; try<2; try++) {
 		read_lock(&binfmt_lock);
 		list_for_each_entry(fmt, &formats, lh) {
-			int (*fn)(struct linux_binprm *) = fmt->load_binary;
-			if (!fn)
-				continue;
 			if (!try_module_get(fmt->module))
 				continue;
 			read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
 			bprm->recursion_depth++;
-			retval = fn(bprm);
+			retval = fmt->load_binary(bprm);
 			bprm->recursion_depth--;
 			if (retval >= 0) {
 				put_binfmt(fmt);
-- 
1.5.5.1

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