Invalid return value of execve() resulting in oopses

When elf loader fails to map executable (due to memory shortage or because
binary is malformed), it can return 0.  Normally, this is invisible because
process is killed with SIGKILL and it never returns to user space.

But if exec() is called from kernel thread (hotplug, whatever)
consequences are more interesting and vary depending on architecture.

i386.   Nothing especially interesting, execve() just returns
        with "success"  :-)

x86_64. Fake zero frame is used on way to caller, RSP/RIP are loaded
        with zeros, ergo... double fault.

ia64.   Similar to i386, but r32...r95 are corrupted. Sometimes it
        oopses due to return to zero PC, sometimes it sees NaT in
        rXX and oopses due to NaT consumption.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Kuznetsov <alexey@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index 67d9b3148c06b62a05989e0914ba42c385186c2c..fa8ea33ab0be1ef56ff78b5908a691676d815e27 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -871,6 +871,8 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
                                elf_prot, elf_flags);
                if (BAD_ADDR(error)) {
                        send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
+                       retval = IS_ERR((void *)error) ?
+                               PTR_ERR((void*)error) : -EINVAL;
                        goto out_free_dentry;
                }
 
@@ -900,6 +902,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm, struct pt_regs *regs)
                    TASK_SIZE - elf_ppnt->p_memsz < k) {
                        /* set_brk can never work. Avoid overflows. */
                        send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
+                       retval = -EINVAL;
                        goto out_free_dentry;
                }