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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-07-13 12:06:48 -0500
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2020-07-21 08:24:52 -0500
commitbe619f7f063a49c656f620a46af4f8ea3e759e91 (patch)
treebe0f257b8da82e9e2eb9bdaa2574a48221e7b516 /arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
parentd8b9cd549ecf0f3dc8da42ada5f0ce73e8ed5f1e (diff)
exec: Implement kernel_execve
To allow the kernel not to play games with set_fs to call exec implement kernel_execve. The function kernel_execve takes pointers into kernel memory and copies the values pointed to onto the new userspace stack. The calls with arguments from kernel space of do_execve are replaced with calls to kernel_execve. The calls do_execve and do_execveat are made static as there are now no callers outside of exec. The comments that mention do_execve are updated to refer to kernel_execve or execve depending on the circumstances. In addition to correcting the comments, this makes it easy to grep for do_execve and verify it is not used. Inspired-by: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627072704.2447163-1-hch@lst.de Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wo365ikj.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
index 024d7d276cd4..8f4e085ee06d 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/entry_32.S
@@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork)
CALL_NOSPEC ebx
/*
* A kernel thread is allowed to return here after successfully
- * calling do_execve(). Exit to userspace to complete the execve()
+ * calling kernel_execve(). Exit to userspace to complete the execve()
* syscall.
*/
movl $0, PT_EAX(%esp)