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Subject: Re: [RFC v5 1/1] ns: add binfmt_misc to the user namespace
To:     Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
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From:   Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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Date:   Tue, 9 Oct 2018 17:19:11 +0200
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Le 09/10/2018 à 17:16, Tycho Andersen a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:37:52PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> @@ -80,18 +74,32 @@ static int entry_count;
>>   */
>>  #define MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH 1920
>>  
>> +static struct binfmt_namespace *binfmt_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
>> +{
>> +	struct binfmt_namespace *b_ns;
>> +
>> +	while (ns) {
>> +		b_ns = READ_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns);
>> +		if (b_ns)
>> +			return b_ns;
>> +		ns = ns->parent;
>> +	}
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> 
> It looks like we warn here,
> 
>> @@ -133,17 +141,18 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>>  	struct file *interp_file = NULL;
>>  	int retval;
>>  	int fd_binary = -1;
>> +	struct binfmt_namespace *ns = binfmt_ns(current_user_ns());
>>  
>>  	retval = -ENOEXEC;
>> -	if (!enabled)
>> +	if (!ns->enabled)
> 
> ...but then in cases like this we immediately dereference the pointer
> anyways and crash. Can we return some other error code here in the !ns
> case so we don't crash?

My concern here is I don't want to add code to check an error case that
cannot happen. The first namespace binfmt_ns pointer is initialized with
&init_binfmt_ns, so the return value cannot be NULL.

Thanks,
Laurent