linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/3] docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to writer

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Date:   Wed, 20 Nov 2019 16:03:03 -0800
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to writer

Setting non-blocking via a local copy of the jobserver file descriptor
is safer than just assuming the writer on the original fd is prepared
for it to be non-blocking.

Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/44c01043-ab24-b4de-6544-e8efd153e27a@rasmusvillemoes.dk
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
---
 scripts/jobserver-count | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/jobserver-count b/scripts/jobserver-count
index 6e15b38df3d0..a68a04ad304f 100755
--- a/scripts/jobserver-count
+++ b/scripts/jobserver-count
@@ -12,12 +12,6 @@ default="1"
 if len(sys.argv) > 1:
 	default=sys.argv[1]
 
-# Set non-blocking for a given file descriptor.
-def nonblock(fd):
-	flags = fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_GETFL)
-	fcntl.fcntl(fd, fcntl.F_SETFL, flags | os.O_NONBLOCK)
-	return fd
-
 # Extract and prepare jobserver file descriptors from envirnoment.
 try:
 	# Fetch the make environment options.
@@ -31,8 +25,13 @@ try:
 	# Parse out R,W file descriptor numbers and set them nonblocking.
 	fds = opts[0].split("=", 1)[1]
 	reader, writer = [int(x) for x in fds.split(",", 1)]
-	reader = nonblock(reader)
-except (KeyError, IndexError, ValueError, IOError):
+	# Open a private copy of reader to avoid setting nonblocking
+	# on an unexpecting writer.
+	reader = os.open("/proc/self/fd/%d" % (reader), os.O_RDONLY)
+	flags = fcntl.fcntl(reader, fcntl.F_GETFL)
+	fcntl.fcntl(reader, fcntl.F_SETFL, flags | os.O_NONBLOCK)
+except (KeyError, IndexError, ValueError, IOError, OSError) as e:
+	print(e, file=sys.stderr)
 	# Any missing environment strings or bad fds should result in just
 	# using the default specified parallelism.
 	print(default)
-- 
2.17.1