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Eric W. Biederman b8a61c9e7b exec: Generic execfd support
Most of the support for passing the file descriptor of an executable
to an interpreter already lives in the generic code and in binfmt_elf.
Rework the fields in binfmt_elf that deal with executable file
descriptor passing to make executable file descriptor passing a first
class concept.

Move the fd_install from binfmt_misc into begin_new_exec after the new
creds have been installed.  This means that accessing the file through
/proc/<pid>/fd/N is able to see the creds for the new executable
before allowing access to the new executables files.

Performing the install of the executables file descriptor after
the point of no return also means that nothing special needs to
be done on error.  The exiting of the process will close all
of it's open files.

Move the would_dump from binfmt_misc into begin_new_exec right
after would_dump is called on the bprm->file.  This makes it
obvious this case exists and that no nesting of bprm->file is
currently supported.

In binfmt_misc the movement of fd_install into generic code means
that it's special error exit path is no longer needed.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87y2poyd91.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-05-21 10:16:57 -05:00
Documentation exec: Rename flush_old_exec begin_new_exec 2020-05-07 16:55:47 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
arch exec: Move the call of prepare_binprm into search_binary_handler 2020-05-21 10:16:57 -05:00
block blk-iocost: Fix error on iocost_ioc_vrate_adj 2020-04-21 09:49:36 -06:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-04-01 14:47:40 -07:00
drivers USB fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 11:22:01 -07:00
fs exec: Generic execfd support 2020-05-21 10:16:57 -05:00
include exec: Generic execfd support 2020-05-21 10:16:57 -05:00
init Kbuild updates for v5.7 (2nd) 2020-04-11 09:46:12 -07:00
ipc ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index 2020-04-10 15:36:22 -07:00
kernel exec: Teach prepare_exec_creds how exec treats uids & gids 2020-05-20 14:44:21 -05:00
lib lib/mpi: Fix building for powerpc with clang 2020-04-24 13:14:59 +10:00
mm mm: check that mm is still valid in madvise() 2020-04-24 13:28:03 -07:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-04-24 19:17:30 -07:00
samples vmalloc: fix remap_vmalloc_range() bounds checks 2020-04-21 11:11:56 -07:00
scripts Kbuild fixes for v5.7 2020-04-24 10:39:32 -07:00
security exec: Convert security_bprm_set_creds into security_bprm_repopulate_creds 2020-05-21 10:16:50 -05:00
sound sound fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-24 10:27:43 -07:00
tools Two fixes: fix an off-by-one bug, and fix 32-bit builds on 64-bit systems. 2020-04-25 11:52:02 -07:00
usr kbuild: fix comment about missing include guard detection 2020-04-11 12:09:48 +09:00
virt KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs 2020-03-31 10:48:03 -04:00
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COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Hand MIPS over to Thomas 2020-02-24 22:43:18 -08:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig docs: kbuild: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst 2019-06-14 14:21:21 -06:00
MAINTAINERS Staging/IIO driver fixes for 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 11:12:30 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.7-rc3 2020-04-26 13:51:02 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.