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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-12-17 16:03:20 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 17:15:23 -0800
commitd740269867021faf4ce38a449353d2b986c34a67 (patch)
treee0476e1be1dfb6e852adbaa8fb72ecea87bdb088 /include/linux
parent8d238027b87e654be552eabdf492042a34c5c300 (diff)
exec: use -ELOOP for max recursion depth
To avoid an explosion of request_module calls on a chain of abusive scripts, fail maximum recursion with -ELOOP instead of -ENOEXEC. As soon as maximum recursion depth is hit, the error will fail all the way back up the chain, aborting immediately. This also has the side-effect of stopping the user's shell from attempting to reexecute the top-level file as a shell script. As seen in the dash source: if (cmd != path_bshell && errno == ENOEXEC) { *argv-- = cmd; *argv = cmd = path_bshell; goto repeat; } The above logic was designed for running scripts automatically that lacked the "#!" header, not to re-try failed recursion. On a legitimate -ENOEXEC, things continue to behave as the shell expects. Additionally, when tracking recursion, the binfmt handlers should not be involved. The recursion being tracked is the depth of calls through search_binary_handler(), so that function should be exclusively responsible for tracking the depth. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: halfdog <me@halfdog.net> Cc: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/binfmts.h2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index 2630c9b41a86..a4c2b565c835 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -54,8 +54,6 @@ struct linux_binprm {
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD_BIT 1
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD (1 << BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD_BIT)
-#define BINPRM_MAX_RECURSION 4
-
/* Function parameter for binfmt->coredump */
struct coredump_params {
siginfo_t *siginfo;