[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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