On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 05:15:22PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Martin Pitt wrote:
> >Is there any particular reason to have /lib/ld-linux.so.* exxecutable?
> >If it is used only as a proper library, it need not be executable.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/priv$ sudo chmod a-x /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/priv$ ls
> bash: /bin/ls: Permission denied
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/priv$ sudo chmod a+x /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> bash: /usr/bin/sudo: Permission denied
>
> Irritated now.
Indeed; /lib/ld-linux.so.2 is in the PT_INTERP field of the ELF header.
load_elf_binary() in fs/binfmt_elf.c uses open_exec() to open it, which
(fs/exec.c) contains this code:
int err = permission(inode, MAY_EXEC);
if (!err && !(inode->i_mode & 0111))
err = -EACCES;
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Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
