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exec: Distinguish in_execve from in_exec

Message ID 20240124192336.work.346-kees@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series exec: Distinguish in_execve from in_exec | expand

Commit Message

Kees Cook Jan. 24, 2024, 7:23 p.m. UTC 
Just to help distinguish the fs->in_exec flag from the current->in_execve
flag, add comments in check_unsafe_exec() and copy_fs() for more
context. Also note that in_execve is only used by TOMOYO now.

Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
---
 fs/exec.c             | 1 +
 include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
 kernel/fork.c         | 1 +
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 39d773021fff..d179abb78a1c 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1633,6 +1633,7 @@  static void check_unsafe_exec(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
+	/* "users" and "in_exec" locked for copy_fs() */
 	if (p->fs->users > n_fs)
 		bprm->unsafe |= LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE;
 	else
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index cdb8ea53c365..ffe8f618ab86 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@  struct task_struct {
 	unsigned			sched_rt_mutex:1;
 #endif
 
-	/* Bit to tell LSMs we're in execve(): */
+	/* Bit to tell TOMOYO we're in execve(): */
 	unsigned			in_execve:1;
 	unsigned			in_iowait:1;
 #ifndef TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 47ff3b35352e..0d944e92a43f 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1748,6 +1748,7 @@  static int copy_fs(unsigned long clone_flags, struct task_struct *tsk)
 	if (clone_flags & CLONE_FS) {
 		/* tsk->fs is already what we want */
 		spin_lock(&fs->lock);
+		/* "users" and "in_exec" locked for check_unsafe_exec() */
 		if (fs->in_exec) {
 			spin_unlock(&fs->lock);
 			return -EAGAIN;