linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 09:11:55 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Samuel Dionne-Riel <samuel@...nne-riel.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>,
        Graham Christensen <graham@...hamc.com>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 9:01 AM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> The !*first will never hit here (since it's been checked to be either
> ' ' or '\t', and if first == last it's whitespace all the way, so we
> could just return true here to bail out early (there's no interpreter
> at all, so we want to -ENOEXEC still).

Correct.

You do need the !*first test, but it needs to be after the loop
(because the next loop skips over the first non-space thing we found).

               Linus