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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] exec: Restore EACCES of S_ISDIR execve()
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2020 09:11:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200814071102.GA4062560@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200813231723.2725102-2-keescook@chromium.org>

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 04:17:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> The return code for attempting to execute a directory has always been
> EACCES. Adjust the S_ISDIR exec test to reflect the old errno instead
> of the general EISDIR for other kinds of "open" attempts on directories.
> 
> Reported-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200813151305.6191993b@why
> Fixes: 633fb6ac3980 ("exec: move S_ISREG() check earlier")
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> ---
>  fs/namei.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
> index 2112e578dccc..e99e2a9da0f7 100644
> --- a/fs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/namei.c
> @@ -2849,8 +2849,10 @@ static int may_open(const struct path *path, int acc_mode, int flag)
>  	case S_IFLNK:
>  		return -ELOOP;
>  	case S_IFDIR:
> -		if (acc_mode & (MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC))
> +		if (acc_mode & MAY_WRITE)
>  			return -EISDIR;
> +		if (acc_mode & MAY_EXEC)
> +			return -EACCES;
>  		break;
>  	case S_IFBLK:
>  	case S_IFCHR:


Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-14  7:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-13 23:17 [PATCH 0/2] Fix S_ISDIR execve() errno Kees Cook
2020-08-13 23:17 ` [PATCH 1/2] exec: Restore EACCES of S_ISDIR execve() Kees Cook
2020-08-14  7:11   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-08-14  8:13     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-08-14  8:15   ` Marc Zyngier
2020-08-13 23:17 ` [PATCH 2/2] selftests/exec: Add file type errno tests Kees Cook

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