linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] execve.2: execve also returns E2BIG if a string is too long

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Date:   Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:44:14 +0200
From:   Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew House <mattlloydhouse@...il.com>
Cc:     Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>, linux-man@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-team@...a.com,
        Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] execve.2: execve also returns E2BIG if a string is too
 long

Hi Matthew,

On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 09:44:29AM -0400, Matthew House wrote:
> 
> To expand on this, there are basically two separate byte limits in
> fs/exec.c, one for each individual argv/envp string, and another for all
> strings and all pointers to them as a whole. To put the whole thing in
> pseudocode, the checks work effectively like this, assuming I haven't made
> any errors:
> 
> int argc, envc;
> unsigned long bytes, limit;
> 
> /* assume that argv has already been adjusted to add an empty argv[0] */
> argc = 0, envc = 0, bytes = 0;
> for (char **a = argv; *a != NULL; a++, argc++) {
>     if (strlen(*a) >= MAX_ARG_STRLEN)
>         return -E2BIG;
>     bytes += strlen(*a) + 1;
> }
> for (char **e = envp; *e != NULL; e++, envc++) {
>     if (strlen(*e) >= MAX_ARG_STRLEN)
>         return -E2BIG;
>     bytes += strlen(*e) + 1;
> }
> 
> if (argc > MAX_ARG_STRINGS || envc > MAX_ARG_STRINGS)
>     return -E2BIG;
> bytes += (argc + envc) * sizeof(void *);
> 
> limit = max(min(_STK_LIM / 4 * 3, rlim_stack.rlim_cur / 4), ARG_MAX);
> if (bytes > limit)
>     return -E2BIG;
> 
> Thank you,
> Matthew House

Thanks!

This thing would be useful in the commit message.  An example program
demonstrating it would be even better.

Cheers,
Alex

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