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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>, Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>,
	Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>,
	<linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/7] exec: Rename the flag called_exec_mmap point_of_no_return
Date: Tue, 05 May 2020 14:42:26 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zhami2xp.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7wujhmz.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Tue, 05 May 2020 14:39:32 -0500")


Update the comments and make the code easier to understand by
renaming this flag.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
---
 fs/exec.c               | 12 ++++++------
 include/linux/binfmts.h |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 6bd82a007bfc..71de9f57ae09 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1326,12 +1326,12 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
 		goto out;
 
 	/*
-	 * After setting bprm->called_exec_mmap (to mark that current is
-	 * using the prepared mm now), we have nothing left of the original
-	 * process. If anything from here on returns an error, the check
-	 * in search_binary_handler() will SEGV current.
+	 * With the new mm installed it is completely impossible to
+	 * fail and return to the original process.  If anything from
+	 * here on returns an error, the check in
+	 * search_binary_handler() will SEGV current.
 	 */
-	bprm->called_exec_mmap = 1;
+	bprm->point_of_no_return = true;
 	bprm->mm = NULL;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_POSIX_TIMERS
@@ -1720,7 +1720,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 
 		read_lock(&binfmt_lock);
 		put_binfmt(fmt);
-		if (retval < 0 && bprm->called_exec_mmap) {
+		if (retval < 0 && bprm->point_of_no_return) {
 			/* we got to flush_old_exec() and failed after it */
 			read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
 			force_sigsegv(SIGSEGV);
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 6f564b9ad882..8f479dad7931 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -46,10 +46,10 @@ struct linux_binprm {
 		 */
 		secureexec:1,
 		/*
-		 * Set by flush_old_exec, when exec_mmap has been called.
-		 * This is past the point of no return.
+		 * Set when errors can no longer be returned to the
+		 * original userspace.
 		 */
-		called_exec_mmap:1;
+		point_of_no_return:1;
 #ifdef __alpha__
 	unsigned int taso:1;
 #endif
-- 
2.20.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-05 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-05 19:39 exec: Promised cleanups after introducing exec_update_mutex Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/7] binfmt: Move install_exec_creds after setup_new_exec to match binfmt_elf Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 20:45   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-06 12:42   ` Greg Ungerer
2020-05-06 12:56     ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/7] exec: Make unlocking exec_update_mutex explict Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 20:46   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 19:42 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2020-05-05 20:49   ` [PATCH 3/7] exec: Rename the flag called_exec_mmap point_of_no_return Kees Cook
2020-05-05 19:43 ` [PATCH 4/7] exec: Merge install_exec_creds into setup_new_exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 20:50   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 19:44 ` [PATCH 5/7] exec: In setup_new_exec cache current in the local variable me Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 20:51   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 19:45 ` [PATCH 6/7] exec: Move most of setup_new_exec into flush_old_exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 21:29   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-06 14:57     ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-06 15:30       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-07 19:51         ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-07 21:51     ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-08  5:50       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-05 19:46 ` [PATCH 7/7] exec: Rename flush_old_exec begin_new_exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-05 21:30   ` Kees Cook
2020-05-06 12:41 ` exec: Promised cleanups after introducing exec_update_mutex Greg Ungerer
2020-05-08 18:43 ` [PATCH 0/6] exec: Trivial cleanups for exec Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-08 18:44   ` [PATCH 1/6] exec: Move the comment from above de_thread to above unshare_sighand Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:02     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-08 18:44   ` [PATCH 2/6] exec: Fix spelling of search_binary_handler in a comment Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:03     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-08 18:45   ` [PATCH 3/6] exec: Stop open coding mutex_lock_killable of cred_guard_mutex Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:08     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 19:18     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-09 19:57       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-10 20:33       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-08 18:45   ` [PATCH 4/6] exec: Run sync_mm_rss before taking exec_update_mutex Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:15     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 14:17       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-08 18:47   ` [PATCH 5/6] exec: Move handling of the point of no return to the top level Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:31     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 13:39       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-08 18:48   ` [PATCH 6/6] exec: Set the point of no return sooner Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09  5:33     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 19:40   ` [PATCH 0/5] exec: Control flow simplifications Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 19:40     ` [PATCH 1/5] exec: Call cap_bprm_set_creds directly from prepare_binprm Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 20:04       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-09 19:41     ` [PATCH 2/5] exec: Directly call security_bprm_set_creds from __do_execve_file Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 20:07       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-09 20:12         ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 20:19           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-11  3:15       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-11 16:52         ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-11 21:18           ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 19:41     ` [PATCH 3/5] exec: Remove recursion from search_binary_handler Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 20:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-10  4:22       ` Tetsuo Handa
2020-05-10 19:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-11 14:33           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-11 19:10             ` Rob Landley
2020-05-13 21:59               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-14 18:46                 ` Rob Landley
2020-05-11 21:55             ` Kees Cook
2020-05-12 18:42               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-12 19:25                 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-12 20:31                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-12 23:08                     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-12 23:47                       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-12 23:51                         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-14 14:56                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-14 16:56                             ` Casey Schaufler
2020-05-14 17:02                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-13  0:20                 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-13  2:39                   ` Rob Landley
2020-05-13 19:51                     ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-14 16:49                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-09 19:42     ` [PATCH 4/5] exec: Allow load_misc_binary to call prepare_binfmt unconditionally Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-11 22:09       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-09 19:42     ` [PATCH 5/5] exec: Move the call of prepare_binprm into search_binary_handler Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-11 22:24       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19  0:29     ` [PATCH v2 0/8] exec: Control flow simplifications Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19  0:29       ` [PATCH v2 1/8] exec: Teach prepare_exec_creds how exec treats uids & gids Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 18:03         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 18:28           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-19 18:57             ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19  0:30       ` [PATCH v2 2/8] exec: Factor security_bprm_creds_for_exec out of security_bprm_set_creds Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 15:34         ` Casey Schaufler
2020-05-19 18:10         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 21:28           ` James Morris
2020-05-19  0:31       ` [PATCH v2 3/8] exec: Convert security_bprm_set_creds into security_bprm_repopulate_creds Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 18:21         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 19:03           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 19:14             ` Kees Cook
2020-05-20 20:22               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-20 20:53                 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 21:52         ` James Morris
2020-05-20 12:40           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19  0:31       ` [PATCH v2 4/8] exec: Allow load_misc_binary to call prepare_binfmt unconditionally Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 18:27         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 19:08           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 19:17             ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19  0:32       ` [PATCH v2 5/8] exec: Move the call of prepare_binprm into search_binary_handler Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 18:27         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 21:30         ` James Morris
2020-05-19  0:33       ` [PATCH v2 6/8] exec/binfmt_script: Don't modify bprm->buf and then return -ENOEXEC Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 19:08         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 19:19           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19  0:33       ` [PATCH v2 7/8] exec: Generic execfd support Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 19:46         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19 19:54           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-19 20:20             ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 21:59         ` Rob Landley
2020-05-20 16:05           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-21 22:50             ` Rob Landley
2020-05-22  3:28               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-22  4:51                 ` Rob Landley
2020-05-22 13:35                   ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19  0:34       ` [PATCH v2 8/8] exec: Remove recursion from search_binary_handler Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-19 20:37         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-19  1:25       ` [PATCH v2 0/8] exec: Control flow simplifications Linus Torvalds
2020-05-19 21:55       ` Kees Cook
2020-05-20 13:02         ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-20 22:12       ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-20 23:43         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-21 11:53           ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:38       ` [PATCH 0/11] exec: cred calculation simplifications Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:41         ` [PATCH 01/11] exec: Reduce bprm->per_clear to a single bit Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 19:04           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-28 19:17             ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:42         ` [PATCH 02/11] exec: Introduce active_per_clear the per file version of per_clear Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 19:05           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-28 15:42         ` [PATCH 03/11] exec: Compute file based creds only once Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:43         ` [PATCH 04/11] exec: Move uid/gid handling from creds_from_file into bprm_fill_uid Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:44         ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:44         ` [PATCH 05/11] exec: In bprm_fill_uid use CAP_SETGID to see if a gid change is safe Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:48         ` [PATCH 06/11] exec: Don't set secureexec when the uid or gid changes are abandoned Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:48         ` [PATCH 07/11] exec: Set saved, fs, and effective ids together in bprm_fill_uid Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:49         ` [PATCH 08/11] exec: In bprm_fill_uid remove unnecessary no new privs check Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:49         ` [PATCH 09/11] exec: In bprm_fill_uid only set per_clear when honoring suid or sgid Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 19:08           ` Linus Torvalds
2020-05-28 19:21             ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:50         ` [PATCH 10/11] exec: In bprm_fill_uid set secureexec at same time as per_clear Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-28 15:50         ` [PATCH 11/11] exec: Remove the label after_setid from bprm_fill_uid Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-29 16:45         ` [PATCH 0/2] exec: Remove the computation of bprm->cred Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-29 16:46           ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: Add a per bprm->file version of per_clear Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-29 21:06             ` Kees Cook
2020-05-30  3:23               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-30  5:14                 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-29 16:47           ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: Compute file based creds only once Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-29 21:24             ` Kees Cook
2020-05-30  3:28               ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-30  5:18                 ` Kees Cook

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