linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] splice: export do

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Message-ID: <CAG48ez0h6950sPrwfirF2rJ7S0GZhHcBM=+Pm+T2ky=-iFyOKg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 4 May 2020 13:09:02 +0200
From:   Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
To:     Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com>,
        Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Cc:     io-uring <io-uring@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Clay Harris <bugs@...ycon.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] splice: export do_tee()

On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 2:10 PM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@...il.com> wrote:
> export do_tee() for use in io_uring
[...]
> diff --git a/fs/splice.c b/fs/splice.c
[...]
>   * The 'flags' used are the SPLICE_F_* variants, currently the only
>   * applicable one is SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK.
>   */
> -static long do_tee(struct file *in, struct file *out, size_t len,
> -                  unsigned int flags)
> +long do_tee(struct file *in, struct file *out, size_t len, unsigned int flags)
>  {
>         struct pipe_inode_info *ipipe = get_pipe_info(in);
>         struct pipe_inode_info *opipe = get_pipe_info(out);

AFAICS do_tee() in its current form is not something you should be
making available to anything else, because the file mode checks are
performed in sys_tee() instead of in do_tee(). (And I don't see any
check for file modes in your uring patch, but maybe I missed it?) If
you want to make do_tee() available elsewhere, please refactor the
file mode checks over into do_tee().

The same thing seems to be true for the splice support, which luckily
hasn't landed in a kernel release yet... while do_splice() does a
random assortment of checks, the checks that actually consistently
enforce the rules happen in sys_splice(). From a quick look,
do_splice() doesn't seem to check:

 - when splicing from a pipe to a non-pipe: whether read access to the
input pipe exists
 - when splicing from a non-pipe to a pipe: whether write access to
the output pipe exists

... which AFAICS means that io_uring probably lets you get full R/W
access to any pipe to which you're supposed to have either read or
write access. (Although admittedly it is rare in practice that you get
one end of a pipe and can't access the other one.)

When you expose previously internal helpers to io_uring, please have a
look at their callers and see whether they perform any checks that
look relevant.