linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] signal: add procfd

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:27:49 -0800
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
To:     Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
Cc:     Daniel Colascione <dancol@...gle.com>,
        Christian Brauner <christian@...uner.io>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@...lyn.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Tim Murray <timmurray@...gle.com>,
        linux-man <linux-man@...r.kernel.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/2] signal: add procfd_signal() syscall

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 3:07 PM Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws> wrote:
> > These tools also care about ioctls. Adding a system call is a pain,
> > but the solution is to make adding system calls less of a pain, not to
> > permanently make the Linux ABI worse.
>
> For user-defined values of "worse" :)
>

I tend to agree with Tycho here.  But I'm wondering if it might be
worth considering a better ioctl.

/me dons flame-proof hat

We could do:

long better_ioctl(int fd, u32 nr, const void *inbuf, size_t inlen,
const void *outbuf, size_t outlen);

and have a central table in the kernel listing all possible nr values
along with which driver they belong to.  We could have a sane
signature and get rid of the nr collision problem.

The major problem I see is that u32 isn't really enough to have a sane
way to allow out-of-tree drivers to use this, and that we can't
readily use anything bigger than u32 without indirection because we're
out of syscall argument space.