Use execveat syscall in fexecve (bug 22134)

By using execveat we no longer depend on /proc.  The execveat syscall was
introduced in 3.19, except for a few late comers.

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c
index 30fa719b56..3bf5de507f 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/fexecve.c
@@ -19,8 +19,13 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <unistd.h>
+#include <fcntl.h>
 #include <sys/stat.h>
 
+#include <sysdep.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
+#include <kernel-features.h>
+
 
 /* Execute the file FD refers to, overlaying the running program image.
    ARGV and ENVP are passed to the new program, as for `execve'.  */
@@ -33,6 +38,15 @@ fexecve (int fd, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
       return -1;
     }
 
+#ifdef __NR_execveat
+  INLINE_SYSCALL (execveat, 5, fd, "", argv, envp, AT_EMPTY_PATH);
+# ifndef __ASSUME_EXECVEAT
+  if (errno != ENOSYS)
+    return -1;
+# endif
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __ASSUME_EXECVEAT
   /* We use the /proc filesystem to get the information.  If it is not
      mounted we fail.  */
   char buf[sizeof "/proc/self/fd/" + sizeof (int) * 3];
@@ -50,6 +64,7 @@ fexecve (int fd, char *const argv[], char *const envp[])
     save = ENOSYS;
 
   __set_errno (save);
+#endif
 
   return -1;
 }