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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Linux Embedded <linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org>,
	dalias@libc.org,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: execve(NULL, argv, envp) for nommu?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2017 17:15:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170911151526.GA4126@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2d1acae-b2a1-9f41-d3bf-9d3b35a62664@landley.net>

On 09/08, Rob Landley wrote:
>
> So is exec(NULL, argv, envp) a reasonable thing to want?

I think that something like prctl(PR_OPEN_EXE_FILE) which does

	dentry_open(current->mm->exe_file->path, O_PATH)

and returns fd make more sense.

Then you can do execveat(fd, "", ..., AT_EMPTY_PATH).

But to be honest, I can't understand the problem, because I know nothing
about nommu.

You need to unblock parent sleeping in vfork(), and you can't do another
fork (I don't undestand why).

Perhaps the child can create another thread? The main thread can exit
after that and unblock the parent. Or perhaps even something like
clone(CLONE_VM | CLONE_PARENT), I dunno...

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-11 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-05  7:34 execve(NULL, argv, envp) for nommu? Rob Landley
2017-09-05  9:00 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-09-05 13:24   ` Alan Cox
2017-09-06  1:12     ` Rob Landley
2017-09-08 21:18       ` Rob Landley
2017-09-11 15:15         ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2017-09-12 10:48           ` Rob Landley
2017-09-12 11:30             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-09-12 13:45               ` Rob Landley
2017-09-13 19:33                 ` Alan Cox
2017-09-12 15:45             ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-13 14:20               ` Oleg Nesterov
2017-09-11 18:14       ` Alan Cox

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