linux-kernel - Re: + mm-search_binary_handler-mem-limit-fix.patch added to -mm tree

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Message-ID: <20070129135958.GB9941@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:59:58 +0100
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	dmonakhov@...nvz.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: + mm-search_binary_handler-mem-limit-fix.patch added to -mm tree

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 12:33:28PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 01:09:18AM -0800, akpm@...l.org wrote:
> >      mm-search_binary_handler-mem-limit-fix.patch
> > From: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
> > 
> > The function changes mem limit to USER_DS before possible modprobe, but
> > never restored it again.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@...nvz.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> >  fs/exec.c |   10 +++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff -puN fs/exec.c~mm-search_binary_handler-mem-limit-fix fs/exec.c
> > --- a/fs/exec.c~mm-search_binary_handler-mem-limit-fix
> > +++ a/fs/exec.c
> > @@ -1018,6 +1018,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> >  {
> >  	int try,retval;
> >  	struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
> > +	mm_segment_t oldfs;
> >  #ifdef __alpha__
> >  	/* handle /sbin/loader.. */
> >  	{
> > @@ -1059,11 +1060,12 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> > 
> >  	/* kernel module loader fixup */
> >  	/* so we don't try to load run modprobe in kernel space. */
> > +	oldfs = get_fs();
> >  	set_fs(USER_DS);
> > 
> >  	retval = audit_bprm(bprm);
> >  	if (retval)
> > -		return retval;
> > +		goto out;
> > 
> >  	retval = -ENOENT;
> >  	for (try=0; try<2; try++) {
> > @@ -1084,7 +1086,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> >  				bprm->file = NULL;
> >  				current->did_exec = 1;
> >  				proc_exec_connector(current);
> > -				return retval;
> > +				goto out;
> >  			}
> >  			read_lock(&binfmt_lock);
> >  			put_binfmt(fmt);
> > @@ -1092,7 +1094,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> >  				break;
> >  			if (!bprm->file) {
> >  				read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
> > -				return retval;
> > +				goto out;
> >  			}
> >  		}
> >  		read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
> > @@ -1110,6 +1112,8 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_b
> >  #endif
> >  		}
> >  	}
> > +out:
> > +	set_fs(oldfs);
> >  	return retval;
> >  }

This is broken. This is the only place in kernel that sets fs to USER_DS
for a new process. With this patch we could as well get rid of USER_DS and
all the address space checkings.
Besides that it breaks architectures with distinct physical address spaces.
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