On Sat, Oct 10, 2020 at 01:55:24AM +0000, Alexander Viro wrote: > FWIW, I hadn't pushed that branch out (or merged it into #for-next yet); > for one thing, uml part (mconsole) is simply broken, for another... > IMO ##5--8 are asking for kernel_pread() and if you look at binfmt_elf.c, > you'll see elf_read() being pretty much that. acct.c, keys and usermode > parts are asking for kernel_pwrite() as well. > > I've got stuck looking through the drivers/target stuff - it would've > been another kernel_pwrite() candidate, but it smells like its use of > filp_open() is really asking for trouble, starting with symlink attacks. > Not sure - I'm not familiar with the area, but... Can you just pull in the minimal fix so that the branch gets fixed for this merge window? All the cleanups can come later.
