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    exec: don't retry if request_module() fails · 4e0621a0
    Oleg Nesterov authored
    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: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
    Cc: Zach Levis <zml@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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