fs: take i_mutex during prepare_binprm for set[ug]id executables
commit 8b01fc86 upstream. This prevents a race between chown() and execve(), where chowning a setuid-user binary to root would momentarily make the binary setuid root. This patch was mostly written by Linus Torvalds. Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jann@thejh.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> [bwh: Backported to 3.2: - Drop the task_no_new_privs() and user namespace checks - Open-code file_inode() - s/READ_ONCE/ACCESS_ONCE/ - Adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
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