On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:17:04PM +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: David Laight > > Sent: 26 September 2020 12:16 > > To: 'syzbot' <syzbot+51177e4144d764827c45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; syzkaller-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Subject: RE: WARNING in __kernel_read (2) > > > > > From: syzbot <syzbot+51177e4144d764827c45@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > Sent: 26 September 2020 03:58 > > > To: linux-fsdevel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; syzkaller-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > > viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > Subject: WARNING in __kernel_read (2) > > > > I suspect this is calling finit_module() on an fd > > that doesn't have read permissions. > > Code inspection also seems to imply that the check means > the exec() also requires read permissions on the file. > > This isn't traditionally true. > suid #! scripts are particularly odd without 'owner read' > (everyone except the owner can run them!). Christoph, any thoughts here? You added this WARN_ON_ONCE in: commit 61a707c543e2afe3aa7e88f87267c5dafa4b5afa Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Date: Fri May 8 08:54:16 2020 +0200 fs: add a __kernel_read helper
