Re: [PATCH] FIx 'noexec' behavior

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 02:39:06PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
> I had to put a check for 'file' (as Ulrich suggested).
> Otherwise it deadlocks again.
> Is it possible for ->f_vfsmnt to be NULL at all? Should it be tested?
> diff -Nru a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
> --- a/mm/mmap.c Sun Dec  7 14:37:33 2003
> +++ b/mm/mmap.c Sun Dec  7 14:37:33 2003
> @@ -478,7 +478,7 @@
>         if (file && (!file->f_op || !file->f_op->mmap))
>                 return -ENODEV;
>  
> -       if ((prot & PROT_EXEC) && (file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
> +       if ((prot & PROT_EXEC) && file && (file->f_vfsmnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC))
>                 return -EPERM;
>  
>         if (!len)

This does not resemble the code I was looking at from current bk.


-- wli