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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/7] exec: Move initialization of bprm->filename into alloc_bprm
On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 08:29:36AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Currently it is necessary for the usermode helper code and the code
> that launches init to use set_fs so that pages coming from the kernel
> look like they are coming from userspace.
>
> To allow that usage of set_fs to be removed cleanly the argument
> copying from userspace needs to happen earlier. Move the computation
> of bprm->filename and possible allocation of a name in the case
> of execveat into alloc_bprm to make that possible.
>
> The exectuable name, the arguments, and the environment are
> copied into the new usermode stack which is stored in bprm
> until exec passes the point of no return.
>
> As the executable name is copied first onto the usermode stack
> it needs to be known. As there are no dependencies to computing
> the executable name, compute it early in alloc_bprm.
>
> As an implementation detail if the filename needs to be generated
> because it embeds a file descriptor store that filename in a new field
> bprm->fdpath, and free it in free_bprm. Previously this was done in
> an independent variable pathbuf. I have renamed pathbuf fdpath
> because fdpath is more suggestive of what kind of path is in the
> variable. I moved fdpath into struct linux_binprm because it is
> tightly tied to the other variables in struct linux_binprm, and as
> such is needed to allow the call alloc_binprm to move.
>
> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

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Kees Cook

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