linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] exec: Generic execfd support

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Message-ID: <adaced72-d757-e3e4-cfeb-5512533d0aa5@landley.net>
Date:   Tue, 19 May 2020 16:59:06 -0500
From:   Rob Landley <rob@...dley.net>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@...mail.de>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Casey Schaufler <casey@...aufler-ca.com>,
        linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org,
        James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 7/8] exec: Generic execfd support

On 5/18/20 7:33 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Most of the support for passing the file descriptor of an executable
> to an interpreter already lives in the generic code and in binfmt_elf.
> Rework the fields in binfmt_elf that deal with executable file
> descriptor passing to make executable file descriptor passing a first
> class concept.

I was reading this to try to figure out how to do execve(NULL, argv[], envp) to
re-exec self after a vfork() in a chroot with no /proc, and hit the most trivial
quibble ever:

> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -1323,7 +1323,10 @@ int begin_new_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>  	 */
>  	set_mm_exe_file(bprm->mm, bprm->file);
>  
> +	/* If the binary is not readable than enforce mm->dumpable=0 */

then

Rob