linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Fix use after free of tracepoint trace_sched_process

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Date:	Wed, 5 Feb 2014 08:52:43 -0800
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Eric Paris <eparis@...isplace.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Smith <dsmith@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@...sung.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] exec: Fix use after free of tracepoint trace_sched_process_exec

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:52 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Do we really need this change? If not (afaics), the patch can be
> much simpler, see below...

Right you are.

I started out with free_bprm() being non-static, and thought I had to
handle other callers. Which is why I made the bprm->filename be the
"struct filename" so that brpm_free() could free it.

And then I only later noticed that free_bprm() was really only used by
fs/exec.c, and turned it static - and you're right, if we always just
free it in do_execve_common(), that simplifies the patch a lot.

Good call. New patch attached. More comments?

              Linus

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