From: P J P <ppandit@redhat.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, halfdog <me@halfdog.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:20:39 +0530 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1211161804520.16891@wniryva.cad.erqung.pbz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXu5j+ObQAPBruUGpM2Vu_Fr91dNwdmy=ryJ2bOmm18qJEWnQ@mail.gmail.com>
Hello folks,
+-- On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Kees Cook wrote --+
| > Al, what's your take on the *rare* extra call to request_module?
|
| Without any other feedback, I'd like to use my minimal allocation
| patch, since it fixes the problem and doesn't change any of the
| semantics of how/when loading happens.
I did apply and test this patch with kernel-3.5.3 on my machine. Now it
seems to disclose dynamically allocated(kstrdup) bytes, instead of the call
stack bytes. Recursions still dodge and exceed the limit of
BINPRM_MAX_RECURSION(4).
Please pardon my asking, but - how is this a fix?
--
Prasad J Pandit / Red Hat Security Response Team
DB7A 84C5 D3F9 7CD1 B5EB C939 D048 7860 3655 602B
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-16 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-24 23:20 [PATCH] exec: do not leave bprm->interp on stack Kees Cook
2012-10-25 4:16 ` Al Viro
2012-10-25 6:21 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-25 11:46 ` P J P
2012-10-25 12:03 ` Tetsuo Handa
2012-10-25 12:57 ` P J P
2012-10-25 12:09 ` Al Viro
2012-10-25 12:38 ` Al Viro
2012-10-26 17:38 ` P J P
2012-10-26 18:36 ` Al Viro
2012-10-27 10:47 ` P J P
2012-10-27 17:05 ` Kees Cook
2012-10-27 20:16 ` P J P
2012-10-28 3:32 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-06 8:10 ` P J P
2012-11-12 22:10 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-13 6:50 ` halfdog
2012-11-16 12:50 ` P J P [this message]
2012-11-16 18:00 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-18 19:04 ` P J P
2012-11-18 19:34 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-19 6:57 ` P J P
2012-11-19 20:41 ` Kees Cook
2012-11-20 7:04 ` P J P
2012-11-22 20:06 ` P J P
2012-11-23 18:43 ` P J P
2012-11-23 23:12 ` Tetsuo Handa
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.2.02.1211221934220.19768@wniryva.cad.erqung.pbz>
[not found] ` <CAGXu5jL8zCt5ghW4ODPL9+SyC9+mbuw=4JMUngepY5fC8pSikQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-26 7:09 ` P J P
[not found] ` <CA+55aFx3LFH5Xj1OkNoy7vN5w8y5tH39MUDujKqF3BdnmYibLQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-11-20 7:08 ` P J P
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