From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>,
Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de>,
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>,
security@kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL
Date: Thu, 16 May 2013 19:13:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130516171337.GA24031@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKi4VAKj+s0Z9QHfqwG3+y33puL4dVaou5ys+eiD-yLf8h5QrA@mail.gmail.com>
On 05/16, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>
> >
> > - kill or justify ->path[0] check
>
> I'm not sure about this, it's already there before my refactor and I
> don't think it makes any good. From modprobe pespective, I'd say it
> would be better to give an error than say everything went ok.
Agreed. And, I forgot to mention, if we kill this check then we do
not need this patch (although I need to recheck), execve will fail
and nothing bad should happen.
Just I think it would be better to start with the trivial fix, then
decide what should we actually do.
> Acked-By: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Thanks,
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-16 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-15 20:11 [PATCH 0/6] coredump: format_corename() fixes/cleanups Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 1/6] coredump: format_corename() can leak cn->corename Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] coredump: introduce cn_vprintf() Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 3/6] coredump: cn_vprintf() has no reason to call vsnprintf() twice Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 4/6] coredump: kill cn_escape(), introduce cn_esc_printf() Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:26 ` [PATCH v2 " Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 5/6] coredump: kill call_count, add core_name_size Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-24 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2013-05-27 15:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-15 20:12 ` [PATCH 6/6] coredump: '% at the end' shouldn't bypass core_uses_pid logic Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-16 13:28 ` [PATCH 0/6] coredump: format_corename() fixes/cleanups Neil Horman
[not found] ` <20130516154323.GA19060@redhat.com>
2013-05-16 15:43 ` [PATCH 1/1] usermodehelper: check subprocess_info->path != NULL Oleg Nesterov
2013-05-16 16:16 ` Lucas De Marchi
2013-05-16 17:13 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
[not found] ` <20130516182624.GA29455@redhat.com>
2013-05-16 18:38 ` [PATCH 7/6] coredump: avoid the uninitialized cn->corename if core_pattern is empty Oleg Nesterov
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