On Sat, May 9, 2020 at 9:30 PM Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Wouldn't this change cause > > if (fd_binary > 0) > ksys_close(fd_binary); > bprm->interp_flags = 0; > bprm->interp_data = 0; > > not to be called when "Search for the interpreter" failed? Good catch. We seem to have some subtle magic wrt the fd_binary file descriptor, which depends on the recursive behavior. I'm not seeing how to fix it cleanly with the "turn it into a loop". Basically, that binfmt_misc use-case isn't really a tail-call. Eric, ideas? Linus