This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: binfmt_elf-don-t-clobber-passed-executable-s-file-header.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From b582ef5c53040c5feef4c96a8f9585b6831e2441 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 15:48:19 +0000 Subject: binfmt_elf: Don't clobber passed executable's file header From: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> commit b582ef5c53040c5feef4c96a8f9585b6831e2441 upstream. Do not clobber the buffer space passed from `search_binary_handler' and originally preloaded by `prepare_binprm' with the executable's file header by overwriting it with its interpreter's file header. Instead keep the buffer space intact and directly use the data structure locally allocated for the interpreter's file header, fixing a bug introduced in 2.1.14 with loadable module support (linux-mips.org commit beb11695 [Import of Linux/MIPS 2.1.14], predating kernel.org repo's history). Adjust the amount of data read from the interpreter's file accordingly. This was not an issue before loadable module support, because back then `load_elf_binary' was executed only once for a given ELF executable, whether the function succeeded or failed. With loadable module support supported and enabled, upon a failure of `load_elf_binary' -- which may for example be caused by architecture code rejecting an executable due to a missing hardware feature requested in the file header -- a module load is attempted and then the function reexecuted by `search_binary_handler'. With the executable's file header replaced with its interpreter's file header the executable can then be erroneously accepted in this subsequent attempt. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -682,16 +682,16 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_ */ would_dump(bprm, interpreter); - retval = kernel_read(interpreter, 0, bprm->buf, - BINPRM_BUF_SIZE); - if (retval != BINPRM_BUF_SIZE) { + /* Get the exec headers */ + retval = kernel_read(interpreter, 0, + (void *)&loc->interp_elf_ex, + sizeof(loc->interp_elf_ex)); + if (retval != sizeof(loc->interp_elf_ex)) { if (retval >= 0) retval = -EIO; goto out_free_dentry; } - /* Get the exec headers */ - loc->interp_elf_ex = *((struct elfhdr *)bprm->buf); break; } elf_ppnt++; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from macro@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/binfmt_elf-don-t-clobber-passed-executable-s-file-header.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html