linux-hardening - Re: Coverity: __do_sys_pidfd_send

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 18:55:55 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.pizza>
Cc: coverity-bot <keescook@...omium.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
	Peng Zhang <zhangpeng.00@...edance.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@...nel.org>,
	Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@...il.com>,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
	Tycho Andersen <tandersen@...flix.com>,
	Mike Christie <michael.christie@...cle.com>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@...eddedor.com>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-hardening@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Coverity: __do_sys_pidfd_send_signal(): UNINIT

Hi Tycho,

let me repeat just in case, I am fine either way, whatever you and
Christian prefer. In particular, I agree in advance if you decide
to not change the current code, it is correct even if it can fool
the tools.

That said,

On 02/14, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2024 at 10:06:41AM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > -	/* Ensure that only a single signal scope determining flag is set. */
> > -	if (hweight32(flags & PIDFD_SEND_SIGNAL_FLAGS) > 1)
> > +	switch (flags) {
> > +	case 0:
> > +		/* but see the PIDFD_THREAD check below */
>
> Why not put that bit inline?

Not sure I understand what does "inline" mean... but let me reply
anyway.

We want to check the "flags" argument at the start, we do not want to
delay the "case 0:" check until we have f.file (so that we can check
f.file->f_flags).

but perhaps this is another case when I misunderstand you.

> But I guess the hweight and flags mask
> are intended to be future proofness for flags that don't fit into this
> switch.

Yes I see, but

> That said, your patch reads better than the way it is in the
> tree and is what I was thinking.

this was my point.

And if we add more flags, we will need to update the "switch" stmt anyway.

But again, I won't insist. This is cosmetic afer all.

Oleg.