linux/include/uapi/asm-generic
David Drysdale 51f39a1f0c syscalls: implement execveat() system call
This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd
Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528).

The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an
implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem,
at least for executables (rather than scripts).  The current glibc version
of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed
or otherwise restricted environments.

Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be
an appropriate generalization.

Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without
back-compatibility concerns.  The current implementation just defines the
AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be
added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474).

Related history:
 - https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone
   realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment.
 - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered
   documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to
   "prevent other people from wasting their time".
 - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a
   problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve()
   because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since
   been fixed.

This patch (of 4):

Add a new execveat(2) system call.  execveat() is to execve() as openat()
is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and
resolves the filename relative to that.

In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified,
execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers.  This
replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other
UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" (and
so relies on /proc being mounted).

The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the
script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/<fd>"
(for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>", effectively
reflecting how the executable was found.  This does however mean that
execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script
execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be
accessible after exec).

Based on patches by Meredydd Luff.

Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00
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Kbuild UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
Kbuild.asm UAPI: Set up uapi/asm/Kbuild.asm 2012-10-02 18:01:56 +01:00
auxvec.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
bitsperlong.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
errno-base.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
errno.h errno.h: remove "NFS" from descriptions in comments 2013-11-13 12:09:12 +09:00
fcntl.h locks: rename file-private locks to "open file description locks" 2014-04-22 08:23:58 -04:00
int-l64.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
int-ll64.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
ioctl.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
ioctls.h tty, ioctls -- Add new ioctl definitions for tty flags fetching 2012-10-25 12:07:18 -07:00
ipcbuf.h uapi, asm-generic: Use __kernel_ulong_t in uapi struct ipc64_perm 2014-01-20 14:44:35 -08:00
kvm_para.h UAPI: Put a comment into uapi/asm-generic/kvm_para.h and use it from arches 2012-10-17 12:32:07 +01:00
mman-common.h madvise: correct the comment of MADV_DODUMP flag 2014-04-07 16:35:58 -07:00
mman.h mm: support more pagesizes for MAP_HUGETLB/SHM_HUGETLB 2012-12-11 17:22:25 -08:00
msgbuf.h uapi: Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds 2014-01-20 14:45:01 -08:00
param.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
poll.h net: rename low latency sockets functions to busy poll 2013-07-08 19:25:45 -07:00
posix_types.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
resource.h asm-generic: remove _STK_LIM_MAX 2014-05-15 00:32:09 +01:00
sembuf.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
setup.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
shmbuf.h uapi: Use __kernel_ulong_t in shmid64_ds/shminfo64/shm_info 2014-01-20 14:45:25 -08:00
shmparam.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
siginfo.h mpx: Extend siginfo structure to include bound violation information 2014-11-18 00:58:53 +01:00
signal-defs.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
signal.h consolidate kernel-side struct sigaction declarations 2013-02-03 15:09:22 -05:00
socket.h net: sock: allow eBPF programs to be attached to sockets 2014-12-05 21:47:32 -08:00
sockios.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
stat.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
statfs.h x86, x32: Use __kernel_long_t for __statfs_word 2013-12-20 16:06:21 -08:00
swab.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
termbits.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
termios.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
types.h asm/types.h: Remove include/asm-generic/int-l64.h 2014-01-23 16:36:53 -08:00
ucontext.h UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic 2012-10-04 18:20:15 +01:00
unistd.h syscalls: implement execveat() system call 2014-12-13 12:42:51 -08:00