Re: [PATCH net-next] modules: allow modprobe load regular elf binaries
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Date: 2018-03-09 18:48:55
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On Mar 9, 2018, at 10:17 AM, Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
Hmm. I wish we had an "execute blob" model, but we really don't, and it would be hard/impossible to do without pinning the pages in memory.
Why so hard? We can already execute a struct file for execveat, and Alexei already has this working for umh. Surely we can make an immutable (as in even root can’t write it) kernel-internal tmpfs file, execveat it, then unlink it. And /proc/PID/exe should be openable and readable. The blob itself would be __initdata so it gets discarded after it lands in tmpfs.