From: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
To: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk
Cc: brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, kees@kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jianhao.xu@seu.edu.cn,
Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
Subject: [PATCH] binfmt_misc: restore write access before closing files opened by open_exec()
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2025 02:29:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251105022923.1813587-1-zilin@seu.edu.cn> (raw)
bm_register_write() opens an executable file using open_exec(), which
internally calls do_open_execat() and denies write access on the file to
avoid modification while it is being executed.
However, when an error occurs, bm_register_write() closes the file using
filp_close() directly. This does not restore the write permission, which
may cause subsequent write operations on the same file to fail.
Fix this by calling exe_file_allow_write_access() before filp_close() to
restore the write permission properly.
Fixes: e7850f4d844e ("binfmt_misc: fix possible deadlock in bm_register_write")
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilin@seu.edu.cn>
---
fs/binfmt_misc.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
index a839f960cd4a..a8b1d79e4af0 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
@@ -837,8 +837,10 @@ static ssize_t bm_register_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
inode_unlock(d_inode(root));
if (err) {
- if (f)
+ if (f) {
+ exe_file_allow_write_access(f);
filp_close(f, NULL);
+ }
kfree(e);
return err;
}
--
2.34.1
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