Re: [PATCH] allow execve'ing "/proc/self/exe" even if /proc is not mounted

[Mike Frysinger]

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 04:00, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> With this patch, it is possible to execute /proc/self/exe
>>> even if /proc is not mounted. In the below example,
>>> ./sh is a static shell binary:
>>
>> What if the user has procfs mounted somewherelse, what if they are in a
>> chroot where you don't want them to patch the binary and re-exec it ?
>>
>> It would be far far cleaner for NOMMU to have a NOMMU private "reexec()"
>> call that didn't rely on procfs or hacking names into the kernel.
>>
>> So NAK
>
> I am ok with it. Are other people ok with adding a syscall
> just for this purpose? Al?

please try a custom binfmt first
-mike
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