Re: [PATCHv7 0/3] syscalls,x86: Add execveat() system call

Andrew Morton
2014-11-13T20:13:36Z

On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 14:42:58 +0000 David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Andrew Morton
> <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2014 17:01:01 +0000 David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> wrote:
> >
> >> This patch set adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd
> >> Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528).
> >>
> >> The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an
> >> implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc
> >> filesystem, at least for executables (rather than scripts). The
> >> current glibc version of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which
> >> causes problems in sandboxed or otherwise restricted environments.
> >
> > Have the relevant glibc people seen/reviewed/liked this?
>
> I think it's been mentioned in passing but not explicitly discussed over there
> (https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-10/msg00497.html,
> https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-10/msg00509.html)
> and a couple of the participants in that thread (Christoph Hellwig, Rich Felker)
> were also cc:ed here.
>
> It sounded like execveat might be useful for another feature (O_EXEC) but
> I'm not sure whether that amounts to the relevant glibc folk liking this...

OK. Could you please try to hunt down the appropriate people and give
them a poke? We'd be in a mess if we merged this then glibc didn't use
it, or glibc developers required/suggested any interface modifications.