fix setuid sometimes doesn't

Joe Malicki reports that setuid sometimes doesn't: very rarely,
a setuid root program does not get root euid; and, by the way,
they have a health check running lsof every few minutes.

Right, check_unsafe_exec() notes whether the files_struct is being
shared by more threads than will get killed by the exec, and if so
sets LSM_UNSAFE_SHARE to make bprm_set_creds() careful about euid.
But /proc/<pid>/fd and /proc/<pid>/fdinfo lookups make transient
use of get_files_struct(), which also raises that sharing count.

There's a rather simple fix for this: exec's check on files->count
has been redundant ever since 2.6.1 made it unshare_files() (except
while compat_do_execve() omitted to do so) - just remove that check.

[Note to -stable: this patch will not apply before 2.6.29: earlier
releases should just remove the files->count line from unsafe_exec().]

Reported-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
Narrowed-down-by: Michael Itz <mitz@metacarta.com>
Tested-by: Joe Malicki <jmalicki@metacarta.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/compat.c b/fs/compat.c
index b543363dd62..55efdfebdf5 100644
--- a/fs/compat.c
+++ b/fs/compat.c
@@ -1441,7 +1441,7 @@ int compat_do_execve(char * filename,
         bprm->cred = prepare_exec_creds();
         if (!bprm->cred)
                 goto out_unlock;
-        check_unsafe_exec(bprm, current->files);
+        check_unsafe_exec(bprm);
 
         file = open_exec(filename);
         retval = PTR_ERR(file);