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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] allow execve'ing "/proc/self/exe" even if /proc is not  mounted
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:26:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8bd0f97a0906260626y36190ca9ia769c623d4c545d3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1158166a0906260100q79475523l546cddde2c0ca03@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan Cox 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?

please try a custom binfmt first
-mike

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-26 13:26 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
2009-06-26 13:26     ` Mike Frysinger [this message]
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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