exec: fix up /proc/pid/comm in the execveat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) case

[ Upstream commit 543841d1806029889c2f69f040e88b247aba8e22 ]

Zbigniew mentioned at Linux Plumber's that systemd is interested in
switching to execveat() for service execution, but can't, because the
contents of /proc/pid/comm are the file descriptor which was used,
instead of the path to the binary[1]. This makes the output of tools like
top and ps useless, especially in a world where most fds are opened
CLOEXEC so the number is truly meaningless.

When the filename passed in is empty (e.g. with AT_EMPTY_PATH), use the
dentry's filename for "comm" instead of using the useless numeral from
the synthetic fdpath construction. This way the actual exec machinery
is unchanged, but cosmetically the comm looks reasonable to admins
investigating things.

Instead of adding TASK_COMM_LEN more bytes to bprm, use one of the unused
flag bits to indicate that we need to set "comm" from the dentry.

Suggested-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Suggested-by: Tycho Andersen <tandersen@netflix.com>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://github.com/uapi-group/kernel-features#set-comm-field-before-exec [1]
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Tested-by: Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/binfmts.h b/include/linux/binfmts.h
index e6c00e860951..3305c849abd6 100644
--- a/include/linux/binfmts.h
+++ b/include/linux/binfmts.h
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ struct linux_binprm {
 		 * Set when errors can no longer be returned to the
 		 * original userspace.
 		 */
-		point_of_no_return:1;
+		point_of_no_return:1,
+		/* Set when "comm" must come from the dentry. */
+		comm_from_dentry:1;
 	struct file *executable; /* Executable to pass to the interpreter */
 	struct file *interpreter;
 	struct file *file;