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exec: delay address limit change until point of no return
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:05:18 +0000 (20:05 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:50:05 +0000 (12:50 -0700)
commitdac853ae89043f1b7752875300faf614de43c74b
tree2f5732cd1197a1930a32eaa1ece1446ea73f1625
parent06e86849cf4019945a106913adb9ff0abcc01770
exec: delay address limit change until point of no return

Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function.  This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.

With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.

Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
fs/exec.c