[PATCH] introduce kernel_execve

The use of execve() in the kernel is dubious, since it relies on the
__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ mechanism that stores the result in a global errno
variable.  As a first step of getting rid of this, change all users to a
global kernel_execve function that returns a proper error code.

This function is a terrible hack, and a later patch removes it again after the
kernel syscalls are gone.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This commit is contained in:
Arnd Bergmann 2006-10-02 02:18:26 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2453a3062d
commit 6760856791
6 changed files with 31 additions and 11 deletions

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@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
* Copyright (C) 1999 David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
*/
#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
@ -14,6 +12,7 @@
#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/pm.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
#include <asm/system.h>
#include <asm/auxio.h>
@ -98,7 +97,7 @@ again:
/* Ok, down we go... */
button_pressed = 0;
if (execve("/sbin/shutdown", argv, envp) < 0) {
if (kernel_execve("/sbin/shutdown", argv, envp) < 0) {
printk("powerd: shutdown execution failed\n");
add_wait_queue(&powerd_wait, &wait);
goto again;

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@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
#include <linux/unistd.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
@ -35,7 +34,7 @@ static int __init do_linuxrc(void * shell)
(void) sys_open("/dev/console",O_RDWR,0);
(void) sys_dup(0);
(void) sys_dup(0);
return execve(shell, argv, envp_init);
return kernel_execve(shell, argv, envp_init);
}
static void __init handle_initrd(void)

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@ -9,8 +9,6 @@
* Simplified starting of init: Michael A. Griffith <grif@acm.org>
*/
#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/proc_fs.h>
@ -703,7 +701,7 @@ static void do_pre_smp_initcalls(void)
static void run_init_process(char *init_filename)
{
argv_init[0] = init_filename;
execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
kernel_execve(init_filename, argv_init, envp_init);
}
static int init(void * unused)

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@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
call_usermodehelper wait flag, and remove exec_usermodehelper.
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Jan 2003
*/
#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/syscalls.h>
@ -169,7 +167,8 @@ static int ____call_usermodehelper(void *data)
retval = -EPERM;
if (current->fs->root)
retval = execve(sub_info->path, sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
retval = kernel_execve(sub_info->path,
sub_info->argv, sub_info->envp);
/* Exec failed? */
sub_info->retval = retval;

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@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ ifneq ($(CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK),y)
lib-y += dec_and_lock.o
endif
lib-y += execve.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC_CCITT) += crc-ccitt.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC16) += crc16.o
obj-$(CONFIG_CRC32) += crc32.o

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lib/execve.c Normal file
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@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
#include <asm/bug.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
static int errno __attribute__((unused));
#include <asm/unistd.h>
#ifdef _syscall3
int kernel_execve (const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
__attribute__((__weak__));
int kernel_execve (const char *filename, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
{
mm_segment_t fs = get_fs();
int ret;
WARN_ON(segment_eq(fs, USER_DS));
ret = execve(filename, (char **)argv, (char **)envp);
if (ret)
ret = -errno;
return ret;
}
#endif