From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E4AAC38A30 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 443CB214D8 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 11:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1725963AbgDSLxj (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2020 07:53:39 -0400 Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:59978 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725841AbgDSLxj (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Apr 2020 07:53:39 -0400 Received: from in02.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.52]) by out01.mta.xmission.com with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ8W1-0003fL-D0; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 05:53:37 -0600 Received: from ip68-227-160-95.om.om.cox.net ([68.227.160.95] helo=x220.xmission.com) by in02.mta.xmission.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.87) (envelope-from ) id 1jQ8Vz-0006Fr-TU; Sun, 19 Apr 2020 05:53:37 -0600 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , Alexander Viro , Jeremy Kerr , Arnd Bergmann , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20200414070142.288696-1-hch@lst.de> <87r1wl68gf.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <20200419081926.GA12539@lst.de> Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2020 06:50:32 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20200419081926.GA12539@lst.de> (Christoph Hellwig's message of "Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:19:26 +0200") Message-ID: <87o8rn3d9z.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-XM-SPF: eid=1jQ8Vz-0006Fr-TU;;;mid=<87o8rn3d9z.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>;;;hst=in02.mta.xmission.com;;;ip=68.227.160.95;;;frm=ebiederm@xmission.com;;;spf=neutral X-XM-AID: U2FsdGVkX1++Xt8JJKQGcbPJViucMNdTMbptPpl2UTk= X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.227.160.95 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: remove set_fs calls from the exec and coredump code v2 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 05 May 2016 13:38:54 -0600) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on in02.mta.xmission.com) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 05:41:52PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> > this series gets rid of playing with the address limit in the exec and >> > coredump code. Most of this was fairly trivial, the biggest changes are >> > those to the spufs coredump code. >> > >> > Changes since v1: >> > - properly spell NUL >> > - properly handle the compat siginfo case in ELF coredumps >> >> Quick question is exec from a kernel thread within the scope of what you >> are looking at? >> >> There is a set_fs(USER_DS) in flush_old_exec whose sole purpose appears >> to be to allow exec from kernel threads. Where the kernel threads >> run with set_fs(KERNEL_DS) until they call exec. > > This series doesn't really look at that area. But I don't think exec > from a kernel thread makes any sense, and cleaning up how to set the > initial USER_DS vs KERNEL_DS state is something I'll eventually get to, > it seems like a major mess at the moment. Fair enough. I just wanted to make certain that it is on people's radar that when the kernel exec's init the arguments are read from kernel memory and the set_fs(USER_DS) in flush_old_exec() that makes that not work later. It is subtle and easy to miss. So I figured I would mention it since I have been staring at the exec code a lot lately. Eric