linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 0/3] fs/binfmts: Improve handling of loops

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Message-Id: <1376497898-18619-1-git-send-email-zach@zachsthings.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Aug 2013 09:31:35 -0700
From:	Zach Levis <zach@...hsthings.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, oleg@...hat.com
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@...cle.com,
	keescook@...omium.org, cody@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	zml@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, Zach Levis <zach@...hsthings.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/3] fs/binfmts: Improve handling of loops 

This v4 is based off Oleg's changes from "exec: more cleanups" and "exec: minor cleanups + minor fix"

It incorporates Oleg and Andrew's suggestions and takes care of the issue from Dan's patch "fs/binfmts: double unlock in search_binary_handler()"

New in v4 is how we handle resetting the linux_binprm data. The same function (init_bprm) is called for the initial do_execve_common and recovering from a loop, making sure that any data that needs to be changed is changed.

Additionally, compat_binfmt_elf gets its own name.
(btw, I'd really like to rename that file to binfmt_elf_compat to match the other binfmts, but not sure if that'd break things or go against some other naming scheme in use)
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