Re: [RFC] c/r: prctl: Add ability to set new mm_struct::exe_file v3

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 12:24:38PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> 
> nnp is no_new_privs, which is my patch and is almost, but not quite,
> very relevant to this discussion.  Hence my confusion ;)
> 
> FWIW, since I've touched this code recently, the cleanup you're
> suggesting sounds good.
> 

Andy, Kees, I guess the patch below might be a helper we need,
while I'm not sure on naming. hm?

	Cyrill
---
 include/linux/fs.h |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: linux-2.6.git/include/linux/fs.h
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.git.orig/include/linux/fs.h
+++ linux-2.6.git/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2669,5 +2669,11 @@ static inline void inode_has_no_xattr(st
 		inode->i_flags |= S_NOSEC;
 }
 
+static inline bool file_may_exec(struct file *f)
+{
+	return S_ISREG(f->f_path.dentry->d_inode->i_mode) &&
+		!(f->f_path.mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOEXEC);
+}
+
 #endif /* __KERNEL__ */
 #endif /* _LINUX_FS_H */
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