Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

Merge misc patches from Andrew Morton:
 "Incoming:

   - lots of misc stuff

   - backlight tree updates

   - lib/ updates

   - Oleg's percpu-rwsem changes

   - checkpatch

   - rtc

   - aoe

   - more checkpoint/restart support

  I still have a pile of MM stuff pending - Pekka should be merging
  later today after which that is good to go.  A number of other things
  are twiddling thumbs awaiting maintainer merges."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (180 commits)
  scatterlist: don't BUG when we can trivially return a proper error.
  docs: update documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> fanotify output
  fs, fanotify: add @mflags field to fanotify output
  docs: add documentation about /proc/<pid>/fdinfo/<fd> output
  fs, notify: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, exportfs: add exportfs_encode_inode_fh() helper
  fs, exportfs: escape nil dereference if no s_export_op present
  fs, epoll: add procfs fdinfo helper
  fs, eventfd: add procfs fdinfo helper
  procfs: add ability to plug in auxiliary fdinfo providers
  tools/testing/selftests/kcmp/kcmp_test.c: print reason for failure in kcmp_test
  breakpoint selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: print fail status instead of cause make error
  kcmp selftests: make run_tests fix
  mem-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  cpu-hotplug selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  mqueue selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  vm selftests: print failure status instead of cause make error
  ubifs: use prandom_bytes
  mtd: nandsim: use prandom_bytes
  ...

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index b71b08ce7120..d8e1191cb112 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1353,6 +1353,10 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
         struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
         pid_t old_pid, old_vpid;
 
+        /* This allows 4 levels of binfmt rewrites before failing hard. */
+        if (depth > 5)
+                return -ELOOP;
+
         retval = security_bprm_check(bprm);
         if (retval)
                 return retval;
@@ -1377,12 +1381,8 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
                         if (!try_module_get(fmt->module))
                                 continue;
                         read_unlock(&binfmt_lock);
+                        bprm->recursion_depth = depth + 1;
                         retval = fn(bprm);
-                        /*
-                         * Restore the depth counter to its starting value
-                         * in this call, so we don't have to rely on every
-                         * load_binary function to restore it on return.
-                         */
                         bprm->recursion_depth = depth;
                         if (retval >= 0) {
                                 if (depth == 0) {