It can be useful to the interpreter to know which flags are in use.
For instance, knowing if the preserve-argv[0] is in use would
allow to skip the pathname argument.
This patch uses an unused auxiliary vector, AT_FLAGS, to add a
flag to inform interpreter if the preserve-argv[0] is enabled.
Note by Helge Deller:
The real-world user of this patch is qemu-user, which needs to know
if it has to preserve the argv[0]. See Debian bug #970460.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Reviewed-by: YunQiang Su <ysu@wavecomp.com>
URL: http://bugs.debian.org/970460
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
unsigned char k_rand_bytes[16];
int items;
elf_addr_t *elf_info;
+ elf_addr_t flags = 0;
int ei_index;
const struct cred *cred = current_cred();
struct vm_area_struct *vma;
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHENT, sizeof(struct elf_phdr));
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHNUM, exec->e_phnum);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_BASE, interp_load_addr);
- NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_FLAGS, 0);
+ if (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0)
+ flags |= AT_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0;
+ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_FLAGS, flags);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_ENTRY, e_entry);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_UID, from_kuid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->uid));
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EUID, from_kuid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->euid));
char __user *u_platform, *u_base_platform, *p;
int loop;
int nr; /* reset for each csp adjustment */
+ unsigned long flags = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_MMU
/* In some cases (e.g. Hyper-Threading), we want to avoid L1 evictions
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHENT, sizeof(struct elf_phdr));
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_PHNUM, exec_params->hdr.e_phnum);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_BASE, interp_params->elfhdr_addr);
- NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_FLAGS, 0);
+ if (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0)
+ flags |= AT_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0;
+ NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_FLAGS, flags);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_ENTRY, exec_params->entry_addr);
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_UID, (elf_addr_t) from_kuid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->uid));
NEW_AUX_ENT(AT_EUID, (elf_addr_t) from_kuid_munged(cred->user_ns, cred->euid));
if (bprm->interp_flags & BINPRM_FLAGS_PATH_INACCESSIBLE)
goto ret;
- if (!(fmt->flags & MISC_FMT_PRESERVE_ARGV0)) {
+ if (fmt->flags & MISC_FMT_PRESERVE_ARGV0) {
+ bprm->interp_flags |= BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0;
+ } else {
retval = remove_arg_zero(bprm);
if (retval)
goto ret;
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_PATH_INACCESSIBLE_BIT 2
#define BINPRM_FLAGS_PATH_INACCESSIBLE (1 << BINPRM_FLAGS_PATH_INACCESSIBLE_BIT)
+/* preserve argv0 for the interpreter */
+#define BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0_BIT 3
+#define BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0 (1 << BINPRM_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0_BIT)
+
/* Function parameter for binfmt->coredump */
struct coredump_params {
const kernel_siginfo_t *siginfo;
/* sizeof(linux_binprm->buf) */
#define BINPRM_BUF_SIZE 256
+/* preserve argv0 for the interpreter */
+#define AT_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0_BIT 0
+#define AT_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0 (1 << AT_FLAGS_PRESERVE_ARGV0_BIT)
+
#endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_BINFMTS_H */