[PATCH 4/4] exec: move the call to getname_flags into do_execveat

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sat Mar 27 02:12:28 AEDT 2021


On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 3:38 PM Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de> wrote:
>
> Remove the duplicated copying of the pathname into the common helper.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>

Looks correct, but

> -static int do_execveat(int fd, struct filename *filename,
> +static int do_execveat(int fd, const char __user *pathname,
>                 const char __user *const __user *argv,
>                 const char __user *const __user *envp, int flags)

Maybe rename this to ksys_execveat() for consistency now? I think that
is the current trend for functions that are essentially just the syscall.

With or without that change

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>


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