linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] seccomp: disallow NEW

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Date:   Wed, 6 Mar 2019 13:46:11 -0700
From:   Tycho Andersen <tycho@...ho.ws>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] seccomp: disallow NEW_LISTENER and TSYNC flags

On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:39:35PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > +
> >  	/* Prepare the new filter before holding any locks. */
> >  	prepared = seccomp_prepare_user_filter(filter);
> >  	if (IS_ERR(prepared))
> > @@ -1302,7 +1315,7 @@ static long seccomp_set_mode_filter(unsigned int flags,
> >  		mutex_unlock(&current->signal->cred_guard_mutex);
> >  out_put_fd:
> >  	if (flags & SECCOMP_FILTER_FLAG_NEW_LISTENER) {
> > -		if (ret < 0) {
> > +		if (ret) {
> 
> Why that change but keep checking if (ret < 0) further up?

Not sure what you mean here. The only other place I see that we check
something is < 0 in that function is the return value of
get_unused_fd_flags(), which looks right to me?

Tycho