# Re: \[RFC v5 1/1\] ns: add binfmt\_misc to the user namespace

- From: Laurent Vivier \<hidden\>
- Date: 2018-10-09 22:37:20 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2018/10/144015
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2018/10/144255/t.md

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Le 09/10/2018 à 17:16, Tycho Andersen a écrit :
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2018 at 12:37:52PM +0200, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>> @@ -80,18 +74,32 @@ static int entry_count;
>>   */
>>  #define MAX_REGISTER_LENGTH 1920
>>  
>> +static struct binfmt_namespace *binfmt_ns(struct user_namespace *ns)
>> +{
>> +	struct binfmt_namespace *b_ns;
>> +
>> +	while (ns) {
>> +		b_ns = READ_ONCE(ns->binfmt_ns);
>> +		if (b_ns)
>> +			return b_ns;
>> +		ns = ns->parent;
>> +	}
>> +	WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
> 
> It looks like we warn here,
> 
>> @@ -133,17 +141,18 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
>>  	struct file *interp_file = NULL;
>>  	int retval;
>>  	int fd_binary = -1;
>> +	struct binfmt_namespace *ns = binfmt_ns(current_user_ns());
>>  
>>  	retval = -ENOEXEC;
>> -	if (!enabled)
>> +	if (!ns->enabled)
> 
> ...but then in cases like this we immediately dereference the pointer
> anyways and crash. Can we return some other error code here in the !ns
> case so we don't crash?

My concern here is I don't want to add code to check an error case that
cannot happen. The first namespace binfmt_ns pointer is initialized with
&init_binfmt_ns, so the return value cannot be NULL.

Thanks,
Laurent
```