linux-sg2042/arch
Linus Torvalds c4ad8f98be execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing
This changes 'do_execve()' to get the executable name as a 'struct
filename', and to free it when it is done.  This is what the normal
users want, and it simplifies and streamlines their error handling.

The controlled lifetime of the executable name also fixes a
use-after-free problem with the trace_sched_process_exec tracepoint: the
lifetime of the passed-in string for kernel users was not at all
obvious, and the user-mode helper code used UMH_WAIT_EXEC to serialize
the pathname allocation lifetime with the execve() having finished,
which in turn meant that the trace point that happened after
mm_release() of the old process VM ended up using already free'd memory.

To solve the kernel string lifetime issue, this simply introduces
"getname_kernel()" that works like the normal user-space getname()
function, except with the source coming from kernel memory.

As Oleg points out, this also means that we could drop the tcomm[] array
from 'struct linux_binprm', since the pathname lifetime now covers
setup_new_exec().  That would be a separate cleanup.

Reported-by: Igor Zhbanov <i.zhbanov@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
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alpha alpha: fix broken network checksum 2014-01-31 09:21:55 -08:00
arc Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2014-01-30 16:58:05 -08:00
arm ARM: SoC fixes for 3.14-rc1 2014-02-02 11:11:06 -08:00
arm64 - Build fix with DMA_CMA enabled 2014-01-31 14:25:52 -08:00
avr32 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
blackfin Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2014-01-31 09:31:14 -08:00
c6x lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for asm-generic/hash.h 2013-12-17 21:26:19 -05:00
cris CRIS correction for 3.14 2014-01-28 09:01:14 -08:00
frv Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2014-01-30 16:58:05 -08:00
hexagon Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
ia64 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
m32r Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
m68k Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
metag Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
microblaze Microblaze patches for 3.14-rc1 2014-01-28 09:04:11 -08:00
mips Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus 2014-01-30 17:20:32 -08:00
mn10300 Merge branch 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2014-01-30 16:58:05 -08:00
openrisc OpenRISC updates for 3.14 2014-01-30 17:08:41 -08:00
parisc execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
powerpc Second batch of KVM updates. Some minor x86 fixes, 2014-01-31 08:37:32 -08:00
s390 Second batch of KVM updates. Some minor x86 fixes, 2014-01-31 08:37:32 -08:00
score Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media 2014-01-31 09:31:14 -08:00
sh Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
sparc sparc: Hook up sched_setattr and sched_getattr syscalls. 2014-01-29 00:45:06 -08:00
tile tile: remove compat_sys_lookup_dcookie declaration to fix compile error 2014-02-01 10:55:15 -08:00
um Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/uml 2014-01-26 11:06:16 -08:00
unicore32 arch/unicore32/kernel/early_printk.c:setup_early_printk: missing initialization 2014-01-27 21:02:39 -08:00
x86 Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-01-31 08:59:46 -08:00
xtensa Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
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Kconfig stackprotector: Introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG 2013-12-20 09:38:40 +01:00