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Commit 978ffcbf authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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execve: open the executable file before doing anything else


No point in allocating a new mm, counting arguments and environment
variables etc if we're just going to return ENOENT.

This patch does expose the fact that 'do_filp_open()' that execve() uses
is still unnecessarily expensive in the failure case, because it
allocates the 'struct file *' early, even if the path lookup (which is
heavily optimized) fails.

So that remains an unnecessary cost in the "no such executable" case,
but it's a separate issue.  Regardless, I do not want to do _both_ a
filename_lookup() and a later do_filp_open() like the origin patch by
Josh Triplett did in [1].

Reported-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/5c7333ea4bec2fad1b47a8fa2db7c31e4ffc4f14.1663334978.git.josh@joshtriplett.org/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202209161637.9EDAF6B18@keescook/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgznerM-xs+x+krDfE7eVBiy_HOam35rbsFMMOwvYuEKQ@mail.gmail.com/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=whf9qLO8ipps4QhmS0BkM8mtWJhvnuDSdtw5gFjhzvKNA@mail.gmail.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent e5075d8e
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