On Tue, Aug 06, 2024 at 09:06:17AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote: > On Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:17:21 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > > Both i_mode and noexec checks wrapped in WARN_ON stem from an artifact > > of the previous implementation. They used to legitimately check for the > > condition, but that got moved up in two commits: > > 633fb6ac3980 ("exec: move S_ISREG() check earlier") > > 0fd338b2d2cd ("exec: move path_noexec() check earlier") > > > > Instead of being removed said checks are WARN_ON'ed instead, which > > has some debug value > > > > [...] > > Applied to the vfs.misc branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree. NAK, please drop this patch. I want to keep the "redundant" path_noexec(), since it still provides meaningful signal. We can remove it from the WARN_ON_ONCE(), but I don't want to drop it. -- Kees Cook