From 4e0621a07ea58a0dc15859be3b743bdeb194a51b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:24:45 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] exec: don't retry if request_module() fails A separate one-liner for better documentation. It doesn't make sense to retry if request_module() fails to exec /sbin/modprobe, add the additional "request_module() < 0" check. However, this logic still doesn't look exactly right: 1. It would be better to check "request_module() != 0", the user space modprobe process should report the correct exit code. But I didn't dare to add the user-visible change. 2. The whole ENOEXEC logic looks suboptimal. Suppose that we try to exec a "#!path-to-unsupported-binary" script. In this case request_module() + "retry" will be done twice: first by the "depth == 1" code, and then again by the "depth == 0" caller which doesn't make sense. 3. And note that in the case above bprm->buf was already changed by load_script()->prepare_binprm(), so this looks even more ugly. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: Al Viro Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Zach Levis Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-format-patch failed