[GIT PULL] execve updates for v6.8-rc1

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jan 08 2024 - 13:37:31 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull these execve updates for v6.8-rc1. A fast-fail check has
been added to dramatically speed up execve-based PATH searches, and has
been in -next for the entire development window. A minor conflict with
netdev exists due to neighboring MAINTAINERS entries:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20231218161704.05c25766@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Thanks!

-Kees

The following changes since commit 21ca59b365c091d583f36ac753eaa8baf947be6f:

binfmt_misc: enable sandboxed mounts (2023-10-11 08:46:01 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux.git tags/execve-v6.8-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 0a8a952a75f2c5c140939c1616423e240677666c:

ELF, MAINTAINERS: specifically mention ELF (2023-12-06 14:55:31 -0800)

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execve updates for v6.8-rc1

- Update MAINTAINERS entry to explicitly mention ELF (Alexey Dobriyan)

- Add a fail-fast check to speed up execve-based PATH searches (Josh
Triplett)

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Alexey Dobriyan (1):
ELF, MAINTAINERS: specifically mention ELF

Josh Triplett (1):
fs/exec.c: Add fast path for ENOENT on PATH search before allocating mm

MAINTAINERS | 3 ++-
fs/exec.c | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

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Kees Cook