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-rw-r--r--include/linux/sched.h6
-rw-r--r--kernel/sys.c10
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 7551d3e..0e90f29 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -540,7 +540,11 @@ static inline int get_dumpable(struct mm_struct *mm)
/* leave room for more dump flags */
#define MMF_VM_MERGEABLE 16 /* KSM may merge identical pages */
#define MMF_VM_HUGEPAGE 17 /* set when VM_HUGEPAGE is set on vma */
-#define MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED 18 /* see prctl_set_mm_exe_file() */
+/*
+ * This one-shot flag is dropped due to necessity of changing exe once again
+ * on NFS restore
+ */
+//#define MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED 18 /* see prctl_set_mm_exe_file() */
#define MMF_HAS_UPROBES 19 /* has uprobes */
#define MMF_RECALC_UPROBES 20 /* MMF_HAS_UPROBES can be wrong */
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
index 89d5be4..fd6f508 100644
--- a/kernel/sys.c
+++ b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1696,16 +1696,6 @@ static int prctl_set_mm_exe_file(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned int fd)
fput(exe_file);
}
- /*
- * The symlink can be changed only once, just to disallow arbitrary
- * transitions malicious software might bring in. This means one
- * could make a snapshot over all processes running and monitor
- * /proc/pid/exe changes to notice unusual activity if needed.
- */
- err = -EPERM;
- if (test_and_set_bit(MMF_EXE_FILE_CHANGED, &mm->flags))
- goto exit;
-
err = 0;
/* set the new file, lockless */
get_file(exe.file);
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