From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ben Woodard <woodard@redhat.com>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 15:52:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181112155248.4dde2613979f4c176565629e@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181112160956.GA28472@redhat.com>
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:09:56 +0100 Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> Large enterprise clients often times run applications out of networked
> file systems where the IT mandated layout of project volumes can end up
> leading to paths that are longer than 128 characters. Bumping this up to
> the next order of two solves this problem in all but the most egregious
> case while still fitting into a 512b slab.
>
> ...
>
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/binfmts.h
> @@ -16,6 +16,6 @@ struct pt_regs;
> #define MAX_ARG_STRINGS 0x7FFFFFFF
>
> /* sizeof(linux_binprm->buf) */
> -#define BINPRM_BUF_SIZE 128
> +#define BINPRM_BUF_SIZE 256
>
> #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_BINFMTS_H */
It does seem a rather silly restriction, and it's tempting to suggest
reworking the code so that linux_binprm.buf is dynamically sized to
accommodate even ludicrously large strings.
But obviously 128 bytes has been enough for all this time, so that's
going too far. However it would be basically cost-free to increase
BINPRM_BUF_SIZE up to the point where sizeof(struct linux_binprm) ==
PAGE_SIZE?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-12 23:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-12 16:09 [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 16:09 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE to 256 Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-12 23:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2018-11-13 5:03 ` Kees Cook
2018-11-13 16:55 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:43 ` Andrew Morton
2018-11-14 15:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-14 16:01 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 10:29 ` Michal Hocko
2018-11-16 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2018-11-22 12:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
[not found] ` <20181121160753.GA32685@asgard.redhat.com>
[not found] ` <CAKgNAkhFikJXeOx3W3yL3EUKa9ruXtAw93m4M=N+3Kg-bXbPDQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-11-22 17:32 ` [PATCH] execve.2: document an effect of BINPRM_BUF_SIZE increase " Eugene Syromiatnikov
2019-02-18 19:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] exec: increase BINPRM_BUF_SIZE " Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 12:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2019-02-19 16:26 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-02-19 17:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 10:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: load_script: don't blindly truncate shebang string Michal Hocko
2018-11-13 16:41 ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-11-13 20:16 ` Kees Cook
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