Patch "binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header

to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     binfmt_elf-don-t-clobber-passed-executable-s-file-header.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From b582ef5c53040c5feef4c96a8f9585b6831e2441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@imgtec.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:48:19 +0000
Subject: binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header

From: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>

commit b582ef5c53040c5feef4c96a8f9585b6831e2441 upstream.

Do not clobber the buffer space passed from `search_binary_handler' and
originally preloaded by `prepare_binprm' with the executable's file
header by overwriting it with its interpreter's file header.  Instead
keep the buffer space intact and directly use the data structure locally
allocated for the interpreter's file header, fixing a bug introduced in
2.1.14 with loadable module support (linux-mips.org commit beb11695
[Import of Linux/MIPS 2.1.14], predating kernel.org repo's history).
Adjust the amount of data read from the interpreter's file accordingly.

This was not an issue before loadable module support, because back then
`load_elf_binary' was executed only once for a given ELF executable,
whether the function succeeded or failed.

With loadable module support supported and enabled, upon a failure of
`load_elf_binary' -- which may for example be caused by architecture
code rejecting an executable due to a missing hardware feature requested
in the file header -- a module load is attempted and then the function
reexecuted by `search_binary_handler'.  With the executable's file
header replaced with its interpreter's file header the executable can
then be erroneously accepted in this subsequent attempt.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c |   10 +++++-----
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -679,16 +679,16 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_
 			 */
 			would_dump(bprm, interpreter);
 
-			retval = kernel_read(interpreter, 0, bprm->buf,
-					     BINPRM_BUF_SIZE);
-			if (retval != BINPRM_BUF_SIZE) {
+			/* Get the exec headers */
+			retval = kernel_read(interpreter, 0,
+					     (void *)&loc->interp_elf_ex,
+					     sizeof(loc->interp_elf_ex));
+			if (retval != sizeof(loc->interp_elf_ex)) {
 				if (retval >= 0)
 					retval = -EIO;
 				goto out_free_dentry;
 			}
 
-			/* Get the exec headers */
-			loc->interp_elf_ex = *((struct elfhdr *)bprm->buf);
 			break;
 		}
 		elf_ppnt++;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from macro@imgtec.com are

queue-3.14/binfmt_elf-don-t-clobber-passed-executable-s-file-header.patch