From: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow execve'ing "/proc/self/exe" even if /proc is not mounted
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:00:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1158166a0906260100q79475523l546cddde2c0ca03@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090625091002.0b8203a7@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan Cox<alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>> With this patch, it is possible to execute /proc/self/exe
>> even if /proc is not mounted. In the below example,
>> ./sh is a static shell binary:
>
> What if the user has procfs mounted somewherelse, what if they are in a
> chroot where you don't want them to patch the binary and re-exec it ?
>
> It would be far far cleaner for NOMMU to have a NOMMU private "reexec()"
> call that didn't rely on procfs or hacking names into the kernel.
>
> So NAK
I am ok with it. Are other people ok with adding a syscall
just for this purpose? Al?
--
vda
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-26 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 23:00 Denys Vlasenko
2009-06-24 23:21 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-24 23:49 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-06-24 14:51 ` Pavel Machek
2009-06-25 0:26 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-26 8:06 ` Florian Weimer
2009-06-24 23:58 ` Al Viro
2009-06-25 0:07 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-26 23:18 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-06-25 8:10 ` Alan Cox
2009-06-26 8:00 ` Denys Vlasenko [this message]
2009-06-26 13:26 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-26 22:55 ` Denys Vlasenko
2009-06-28 19:31 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-25 18:02 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-06-25 18:16 ` Mike Frysinger
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