[PATCH v3 10/16] exec: Remove do_execve_file
Pavel Machek
pavel at ucw.cz
Sun Jul 12 21:02:43 UTC 2020
On Thu 2020-07-02 11:41:34, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Now that the last callser has been removed remove this code from exec.
Typo "caller".
> For anyone thinking of resurrecing do_execve_file please note that
resurrecting?
> the code was buggy in several fundamental ways.
>
> - It did not ensure the file it was passed was read-only and that
> deny_write_access had been called on it. Which subtlely breaks
> invaniants in exec.
subtly, invariants?
Pavel
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