linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}

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Message-ID: <20190905110915.4vvhicg4ldmpi5u6@wittgenstein>
Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:09:15 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
To:     Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}_user
 helpers

On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:19:22AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> A common pattern for syscall extensions is increasing the size of a
> struct passed from userspace, such that the zero-value of the new fields
> result in the old kernel behaviour (allowing for a mix of userspace and
> kernel vintages to operate on one another in most cases). This is done
> in both directions -- hence two helpers -- though it's more common to
> have to copy user space structs into kernel space.
> 
> Previously there was no common lib/ function that implemented
> the necessary extension-checking semantics (and different syscalls
> implemented them slightly differently or incompletely[1]). A future
> patch replaces all of the common uses of this pattern to use the new
> copy_struct_{to,from}_user() helpers.
> 
> [1]: For instance {sched_setattr,perf_event_open,clone3}(2) all do do
>      similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2)
>      always rejects differently-sized struct arguments.
> 
> Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@...har.com>

I would probably split this out into a separate patchset. It can very
well go in before openat2(). Thoughts?

Christian