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SubjectRe: [PATCHv10 man-pages 5/5] execveat.2: initial man page for execveat(2)
Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:

> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 04:27:23PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> writes:
>>
>> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 04:14:57AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
>>
>> >> Except that if your interpreter does stat(2) (or access(2), or getxattr(2),
>> >> etc.) before bothering with open(2), you'll get screwed.
>> >
>> > Yes, but I think that would be very bad interpreter design.
>> > stat/getxattr/access/whatever followed by open is always a TOCTOU
>> > race. The correct sequence of actions is always open followed by
>> > fstat/fgetxattr/...
>>
>> Sigh. I think everyone who has looked at this has been blind.
>>
>> If userspace is reasonable all we have to do is fix /proc/self/exe
>> for shell scripts to point at the actual script,
>> and then pass /proc/self/exe on the shell scripts command line.
>>
>> At a practical level we have to worry about backwards compability and
>> chroot jails. But the existence of a clean implementation with
>> /proc/self/exe serves a proof of concept that it would not be too
>> difficult. When someone cares enough to implement it.
>
> Is /proc/self/exe a "magic symlink" that's bound to the inode, or just
> a regular symlink? In the latter case it defeats the whole purpose of
> using O_EXEC fds and fexecve rather than pathnames.

In implementation /proc/self/exe is a named rather than a numbered file
descriptor. Essentially when loading an elf executable the file
descriptor is duped to the name /proc/self/exe. The implementation
otherwise is the same as /proc/self/fd/N.

The downside of course is that I expect if we were actually to change
/proc/self/exe from to point at the script instead of the shell some
piece of software somewhere would come melting down. I am totally not
ready to consider that kind of mine field today.

Eric



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