lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20220201132846.7rrkosqyeidij47w@wittgenstein>
Date:   Tue, 1 Feb 2022 14:28:46 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        kernel test robot <oliver.sang@...el.com>,
        Ariadne Conill <ariadne@...eferenced.org>,
        0day robot <lkp@...el.com>,
        Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>,
        Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org>,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, lkp@...ts.01.org,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [fs/exec]  80bd5afdd8: xfstests.generic.633.fail

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 02:49:36PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 01:59:40PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 18:13:44 +0100 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > > in other words, the changes that you see CMD_ARGS[0] == NULL for
> > > > execveat() seem higher than for path-based exec.
> > > > 
> > > > To counter that we should probably at least update the execveat()
> > > > manpage with a recommendation what CMD_ARGS[0] should be set to if it
> > > > isn't allowed to be set to NULL anymore. This is why was asking what
> > > > argv[0] is supposed to be if the binary doesn't take any arguments.
> > > 
> > > Sent a fix to our fstests now replacing the argv[0] as NULL with "".
> > 
> > As we hit this check so quickly, I'm thinking that Ariadne's patch
> > "fs/exec: require argv[0] presence in do_execveat_common()" (which
> > added the check) isn't something we'll be able to merge into mainline?
> 
> I think the next best would be to mutate an NULL argv into { "", NULL }.
> However, I still think we should do the pr_warn().
> 
> Thoughts?

+1

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ