[PATCH v2 1/8] exec: Correct comments about "point of no return"

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 1:46 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
>
> But you miss it.
>
> The "point of no return" is the call to de_thread.  Or aguably anything in
> flush_old_exec.  Once anything in the current task is modified you can't
> return an error.
>
> It very much does not have anything to do with brpm.    It has
> everything to do with current.

Yes, but the thing that actually enforces this is the test of bprm->mm
and the SIGSEGV in search_binary_handlers().

-Kees

>
>
>> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
>> index 904199086490..7842ae661e34 100644
>> --- a/fs/exec.c
>> +++ b/fs/exec.c
>> @@ -1285,7 +1285,14 @@ int flush_old_exec(struct linux_binprm * bprm)
>>       if (retval)
>>               goto out;
>>
>> -     bprm->mm = NULL;                /* We're using it now */
>> +     /*
>> +      * After clearing bprm->mm (to mark that current is using the
>> +      * prepared mm now), we are at the point of no return. If
>> +      * anything from here on returns an error, the check in
>> +      * search_binary_handler() will kill current (since the mm has
>> +      * been replaced).
>> +      */
>> +     bprm->mm = NULL;
>>
>>       set_fs(USER_DS);
>>       current->flags &= ~(PF_RANDOMIZE | PF_FORKNOEXEC | PF_KTHREAD |
>
> Eric



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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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