From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tycho Andersen Subject: Re: [RFC v5 1/1] ns: add binfmt_misc to the user namespace Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 08:16:41 -0700 Message-ID: <20181009151641.GB10149@cisco> References: <20181009103752.21482-1-laurent@vivier.eu> <20181009103752.21482-2-laurent@vivier.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20181009103752.21482-2-laurent@vivier.eu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Laurent Vivier Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dmitry Safonov , linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jann Horn , James Bottomley , Eric Biederman , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:37:52PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: > @@ -80,18 +74,32 @@ static int entry_count; > */ > #define MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH 1920 > > +static struct binfmt_namespace *binfmt_ns(struct user_namespace *ns) > +{ > + struct binfmt_namespace *b_ns; > + > + while (ns) { > + b_ns = READ_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns); > + if (b_ns) > + return b_ns; > + ns = ns->parent; > + } > + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); It looks like we warn here, > @@ -133,17 +141,18 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) > struct file *interp_file = NULL; > int retval; > int fd_binary = -1; > + struct binfmt_namespace *ns = binfmt_ns(current_user_ns()); > > retval = -ENOEXEC; > - if (!enabled) > + if (!ns->enabled) ...but then in cases like this we immediately dereference the pointer anyways and crash. Can we return some other error code here in the !ns case so we don't crash? Tycho