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

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Date:   Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:54:48 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        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 Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:15 PM Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> The only way we know the interpreter wasn't truncated in the
> no-newline case is if we see whitespace after first skipping any
> leading whitespace, and it seemed really ugly to add a special scan
> there.

No, much easier (and likely better code too), to just use 'memchr()'.

What's wrong with this simple and fairly self-describing patch?

And I'll rather add a few lines due to helper functions with names to
make it more legible, rather than code in that already fairly long
existing function.

          Linus

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