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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 20:58:12 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-12-17 20:58:12 -0800
commit848b81415c42ff3dc9a4204749087b015c37ef66 (patch)
tree391da3a73aea48632248220d2d6b8d45a88f7eae /fs/exec.c
parent992956189de58cae9f2be40585bc25105cd7c5ad (diff)
parent6fd59a83b9261fa53eaf98fb5514abba504a3ea3 (diff)
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Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)
Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton: "Incoming: - lots of misc stuff - backlight tree updates - lib/ updates - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes - checkpatch - rtc - aoe - more checkpoint/restart support I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging later today after which that is good to go. A number of other things are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges." * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits) scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error. docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error ubifs: use prandom_bytes mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes ...
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/exec.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b71b08ce7120..d8e1191cb112 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1353,6 +1353,10 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
pid_t old_pid, old_vpid;
+ /* This allows 4 levels of binfmt rewrites before failing hard. */
+ if (depth > 5)
+ return -ELOOP;
+
retval = security_bprm_check(bprm);
if (retval)
return retval;
@@ -1377,12 +1381,8 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
if (!try_module_get(fmt->module))
continue;
read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
+ bprm->recursion_depth = depth + 1;
retval = fn(bprm);
- /*
- * Restore the depth counter to its starting value
- * in this call, so we don't have to rely on every
- * load_binary function to restore it on return.
- */
bprm->recursion_depth = depth;
if (retval >= 0) {
if (depth == 0) {