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David Hildenbrand
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We want to remove VM_DENYWRITE only currently only used when mapping the executable during exec. During exec, we already deny_write_access() the executable, however, after exec completes the VMAs mapped with VM_DENYWRITE effectively keeps write access denied via deny_write_access(). Let's deny write access when setting or replacing the MM exe_file. With this change, we can remove VM_DENYWRITE for mapping executables. Make set_mm_exe_file() return an error in case deny_write_access() fails; note that this should never happen, because exec code does a deny_write_access() early and keeps write access denied when calling set_mm_exe_file. However, it makes the code easier to read and makes set_mm_exe_file() and replace_mm_exe_file() look more similar. This represents a minor user space visible change: sys_prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP/EXE_FILE) can now fail if the file is already opened writable. Also, after sys_prctl(PR_SET_MM_MAP/EXE_FILE) the file cannot be opened writable. Note that we can already fail with -EACCES if the file doesn't have execute permissions. Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
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