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exec: delay address limit change until point of no return
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:05:18 +0000 (20:05 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:54:56 +0000 (13:54 -0700)
commit51f5cfcb1c84031b2fe4b134ae85c36de4b451c8
treeb066bcfd8d865c48ed2772ac8b1ebae956799650
parentf5404e8ba2873b04e010c6cd2750ce8058736386
exec: delay address limit change until point of no return

commit dac853ae89043f1b7752875300faf614de43c74b upstream.

Unconditionally changing the address limit to USER_DS and not restoring
it to its old value in the error path is wrong because it prevents us
using kernel memory on repeated calls to this function.  This, in fact,
breaks the fallback of hard coded paths to the init program from being
ever successful if the first candidate fails to load.

With this patch applied switching to USER_DS is delayed until the point
of no return is reached which makes it possible to have a multi-arch
rootfs with one arch specific init binary for each of the (hard coded)
probed paths.

Since the address limit is already set to USER_DS when start_thread()
will be invoked, this redundancy can be safely removed.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
fs/exec.c