On 09/10/2018 17:19, Laurent Vivier wrote: > Le 09/10/2018 à 17:16, Tycho Andersen a écrit : >> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:37:52PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote: >>> @@ -80,18 +74,32 @@ static int entry_count; >>> */ >>> #define MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH 1920 >>> >>> +static struct binfmt_namespace *binfmt_ns(struct user_namespace *ns) >>> +{ >>> + struct binfmt_namespace *b_ns; >>> + >>> + while (ns) { >>> + b_ns = READ_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns); >>> + if (b_ns) >>> + return b_ns; >>> + ns = ns->parent; >>> + } >>> + WARN_ON_ONCE(1); >> >> It looks like we warn here, >> >>> @@ -133,17 +141,18 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) >>> struct file *interp_file = NULL; >>> int retval; >>> int fd_binary = -1; >>> + struct binfmt_namespace *ns = binfmt_ns(current_user_ns()); >>> >>> retval = -ENOEXEC; >>> - if (!enabled) >>> + if (!ns->enabled) >> >> ...but then in cases like this we immediately dereference the pointer >> anyways and crash. Can we return some other error code here in the !ns >> case so we don't crash? > > My concern here is I don't want to add code to check an error case that > cannot happen. The first namespace binfmt_ns pointer is initialized with > &init_binfmt_ns, so the return value cannot be NULL. Perhaps it could be reasonable to return &init_binfmt_ns rather than NULL in this case? Thanks, Laurent