[PATCH v2 1/3] fs/exec: don't force writing memory access

Jann Horn
2016-09-28T22:55:11Z

This shouldn't change behavior in any way - at this point, there should be
no non-writable mappings, only the initial stack mapping -, but this change
makes it easier to reason about the correctness of the following commits
that place restrictions on forced memory writes.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net>
Reviewed-by: Janis Danisevskis <jdanis@android.com>
---
fs/exec.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 6fcfb3f..d607da8 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
* doing the exec and bprm->mm is the new process's mm.
*/
ret = get_user_pages_remote(current, bprm->mm, pos, 1, write,
- 1, &page, NULL);
+ 0, &page, NULL);
if (ret <= 0)
return NULL;

--
2.1.4