* [PATCH] binfmt_misc: fix false -ENOEXEC when coupled with other binary handlers
@ 2008-08-18 16:14 Pavel Emelyanov
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From: Pavel Emelyanov @ 2008-08-18 16:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andrew Morton; +Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List, Kirill A. Shutemov
In case the binfmt_misc binary handler is registered *before* the
e.g. script one (when for example being compiled as a module) the
following situation may occur:
1. user launches a script, whose interpreter is a misc binary;
2. the load_misc_binary sets the misc_bang and returns -ENOEVEC,
since the binary is a script;
3. the load_script_binary loads one and calls for search_binary_hander
to run the interpreter;
4. the load_misc_binary is called again, but refuses to load the
binary due to misc_bang bit set.
The fix is to move the misc_bang setting lower - prior to the actual
call to the search_binary_handler.
Caused by the commit 3a2e7f47 (binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel
stack overflow)
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Reported-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
---
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
index 7562053..8d7e88e 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
@@ -120,8 +120,6 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (bprm->misc_bang)
goto _ret;
- bprm->misc_bang = 1;
-
/* to keep locking time low, we copy the interpreter string */
read_lock(&entries_lock);
fmt = check_file(bprm);
@@ -199,6 +197,8 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (retval < 0)
goto _error;
+ bprm->misc_bang = 1;
+
retval = search_binary_handler (bprm, regs);
if (retval < 0)
goto _error;
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