From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz,
mjguzik@gmail.com, paul@paul-moore.com, axboe@kernel.dk,
audit@vger.kernel.org, io-uring@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 7/8] execve: fold {compat_,}do_execve{,at}() into their sole callers
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2026 07:42:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260108074201.435280-8-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260108074201.435280-1-viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
All of them are wrappers for do_execveat_common() and each has
exactly one caller. The only difference is in the way they are
constructing argv/envp arguments for do_execveat_common() and
that's easy to do with less boilerplate.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
---
fs/exec.c | 80 +++++++++++++------------------------------------------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 902561a878ff..4e192d7b7e71 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1893,59 +1893,6 @@ int kernel_execve(const char *kernel_filename,
return bprm_execve(bprm);
}
-static int do_execve(struct filename *filename,
- const char __user *const __user *__argv,
- const char __user *const __user *__envp)
-{
- struct user_arg_ptr argv = { .ptr.native = __argv };
- struct user_arg_ptr envp = { .ptr.native = __envp };
- return do_execveat_common(AT_FDCWD, filename, argv, envp, 0);
-}
-
-static int do_execveat(int fd, struct filename *filename,
- const char __user *const __user *__argv,
- const char __user *const __user *__envp,
- int flags)
-{
- struct user_arg_ptr argv = { .ptr.native = __argv };
- struct user_arg_ptr envp = { .ptr.native = __envp };
-
- return do_execveat_common(fd, filename, argv, envp, flags);
-}
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
-static int compat_do_execve(struct filename *filename,
- const compat_uptr_t __user *__argv,
- const compat_uptr_t __user *__envp)
-{
- struct user_arg_ptr argv = {
- .is_compat = true,
- .ptr.compat = __argv,
- };
- struct user_arg_ptr envp = {
- .is_compat = true,
- .ptr.compat = __envp,
- };
- return do_execveat_common(AT_FDCWD, filename, argv, envp, 0);
-}
-
-static int compat_do_execveat(int fd, struct filename *filename,
- const compat_uptr_t __user *__argv,
- const compat_uptr_t __user *__envp,
- int flags)
-{
- struct user_arg_ptr argv = {
- .is_compat = true,
- .ptr.compat = __argv,
- };
- struct user_arg_ptr envp = {
- .is_compat = true,
- .ptr.compat = __envp,
- };
- return do_execveat_common(fd, filename, argv, envp, flags);
-}
-#endif
-
void set_binfmt(struct linux_binfmt *new)
{
struct mm_struct *mm = current->mm;
@@ -1970,12 +1917,18 @@ void set_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm, int value)
__mm_flags_set_mask_dumpable(mm, value);
}
+static inline struct user_arg_ptr native_arg(const char __user *const __user *p)
+{
+ return (struct user_arg_ptr){.ptr.native = p};
+}
+
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(execve,
const char __user *, filename,
const char __user *const __user *, argv,
const char __user *const __user *, envp)
{
- return do_execve(getname(filename), argv, envp);
+ return do_execveat_common(AT_FDCWD, getname(filename),
+ native_arg(argv), native_arg(envp), 0);
}
SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat,
@@ -1984,17 +1937,23 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat,
const char __user *const __user *, envp,
int, flags)
{
- return do_execveat(fd,
- getname_uflags(filename, flags),
- argv, envp, flags);
+ return do_execveat_common(fd, getname_uflags(filename, flags),
+ native_arg(argv), native_arg(envp), flags);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
+
+static inline struct user_arg_ptr compat_arg(const compat_uptr_t __user *p)
+{
+ return (struct user_arg_ptr){.is_compat = true, .ptr.compat = p};
+}
+
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(execve, const char __user *, filename,
const compat_uptr_t __user *, argv,
const compat_uptr_t __user *, envp)
{
- return compat_do_execve(getname(filename), argv, envp);
+ return do_execveat_common(AT_FDCWD, getname(filename),
+ compat_arg(argv), compat_arg(envp), 0);
}
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat, int, fd,
@@ -2003,9 +1962,8 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(execveat, int, fd,
const compat_uptr_t __user *, envp,
int, flags)
{
- return compat_do_execveat(fd,
- getname_uflags(filename, flags),
- argv, envp, flags);
+ return do_execveat_common(fd, getname_uflags(filename, flags),
+ compat_arg(argv), compat_arg(envp), flags);
}
#endif
--
2.47.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-01-08 7:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-01-08 7:41 [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 1/8] non-consuming variant of do_renameat2() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 2/8] non-consuming variant of do_linkat() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 3/8] non-consuming variant of do_symlinkat() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 4/8] non-consuming variant of do_mkdirat() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 5/8] non-consuming variant of do_mknodat() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:41 ` [RFC PATCH 6/8] non-consuming variants of do_{unlinkat,rmdir}() Al Viro
2026-01-08 7:42 ` Al Viro [this message]
2026-01-08 7:42 ` [RFC PATCH 8/8] do_execveat_common(): don't consume filename reference Al Viro
2026-01-12 10:00 ` [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups Christian Brauner
2026-01-14 2:15 ` Al Viro
2026-01-14 2:28 ` Al Viro
2026-01-14 16:00 ` Christian Brauner
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