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Message-ID: <CALCETrWbj=BTDyKqtbSKteANj3J3UFZnrvWv9DMosCoEZaSoeA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 11:44:29 -0700
From:	Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:	David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Meredydd Luff <meredydd@...atehouse.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
	linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv5 1/3] syscalls,x86: implement execveat() system call

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 4:44 AM, David Drysdale <drysdale@...gle.com> wrote:
> Add a new system execveat(2) syscall. execveat() is to execve() as
> openat() is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a
> directory, and resolves the filename relative to that.
>

>         bprm->file = file;
> -       bprm->filename = bprm->interp = filename->name;
> +       if (fd == AT_FDCWD || filename->name[0] == '/') {
> +               bprm->filename = filename->name;
> +       } else {
> +               /*
> +                * Build a pathname that reflects how we got to the file,
> +                * either "/dev/fd/<fd>" (for an empty filename) or
> +                * "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>".
> +                */
> +               pathbuf = kmalloc(PATH_MAX, GFP_TEMPORARY);
> +               if (!pathbuf) {
> +                       retval = -ENOMEM;
> +                       goto out_unmark;
> +               }
> +               bprm->filename = pathbuf;
> +               if (filename->name[0] == '\0')
> +                       sprintf(pathbuf, "/dev/fd/%d", fd);

If the fd is O_CLOEXEC, then this will result in a confused child
process.  Should we fail exec attempts like that for non-static
programs?  (E.g. set filename to "" or something and fix up the binfmt
drivers to handle that?)

> +               else
> +                       snprintf(pathbuf, PATH_MAX,
> +                                "/dev/fd/%d/%s", fd, filename->name);

Does this need to handle the case where the result exceeds PATH_MAX?

--Andy
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