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binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow
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This can be triggered with root help only, but...

Register the ":text:E::txt::/root/cat.txt:' rule in binfmt_misc (by root) and
try launching the cat.txt file (by anyone) :) The result is - the endless
recursion in the load_misc_binary -> open_exec -> load_misc_binary chain and
stack overflow.

There's a similar problem with binfmt_script, and there's a sh_bang memner on
linux_binprm structure to handle this, but simply raising this in binfmt_misc
may break some setups when the interpreter of some misc binaries is a script.

So the proposal is to turn sh_bang into a bit, add a new one (the misc_bang)
and raise it in load_misc_binary.  After this, even if we set up the misc ->
script -> misc loop for binfmts one of them will step on its own bang and
exit.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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xemul authored and torvalds committed Apr 29, 2008
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/binfmt_em86.c
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Expand Up @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ static int load_em86(struct linux_binprm *bprm,struct pt_regs *regs)
return -ENOEXEC;
}

bprm->sh_bang++; /* Well, the bang-shell is implicit... */
bprm->sh_bang = 1; /* Well, the bang-shell is implicit... */
allow_write_access(bprm->file);
fput(bprm->file);
bprm->file = NULL;
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions fs/binfmt_misc.c
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Expand Up @@ -115,6 +115,12 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
if (!enabled)
goto _ret;

retval = -ENOEXEC;
if (bprm->misc_bang)
goto _ret;

bprm->misc_bang = 1;

/* to keep locking time low, we copy the interpreter string */
read_lock(&entries_lock);
fmt = check_file(bprm);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/binfmt_script.c
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Expand Up @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ static int load_script(struct linux_binprm *bprm,struct pt_regs *regs)
* Sorta complicated, but hopefully it will work. -TYT
*/

bprm->sh_bang++;
bprm->sh_bang = 1;
allow_write_access(bprm->file);
fput(bprm->file);
bprm->file = NULL;
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3 changes: 2 additions & 1 deletion include/linux/binfmts.h
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Expand Up @@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ struct linux_binprm{
#endif
struct mm_struct *mm;
unsigned long p; /* current top of mem */
int sh_bang;
unsigned int sh_bang:1,
misc_bang:1;
struct file * file;
int e_uid, e_gid;
kernel_cap_t cap_inheritable, cap_permitted;
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