linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] signal: Factor copy_siginfo_to_external32 from copy_siginfo_to

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Date:   Sun, 19 Apr 2020 10:05:06 +0200
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Jeremy Kerr <jk@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] signal: Factor copy_siginfo_to_external32 from
 copy_siginfo_to_user32

On Sat, Apr 18, 2020 at 10:05:19AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>
>
> Le 17/04/2020 à 23:09, Eric W. Biederman a écrit :
>>
>> To remove the use of set_fs in the coredump code there needs to be a
>> way to convert a kernel siginfo to a userspace compat siginfo.
>>
>> Call that function copy_siginfo_to_compat and factor it out of
>> copy_siginfo_to_user32.
>
> I find it a pitty to do that.
>
> The existing function could have been easily converted to using 
> user_access_begin() + user_access_end() and use unsafe_put_user() to copy 
> to userspace to avoid copying through a temporary structure on the stack.
>
> With your change, it becomes impossible to do that.

As Eric said we need a struct to clear all padding.  Note that I
though about converting to unsafe_copy_to_user in my variant as we
can pretty easily do that if pre-filling the structure earlier.  But
I didn't want to throw in such unrelated changes for now - I'll volunteer
to do it later, though.