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Message-ID: <20200611044101.GA5909@ircssh-2.c.rugged-nimbus-611.internal>
Date:   Thu, 11 Jun 2020 04:41:02 +0000
From:   Sargun Dhillon <sargun@...gun.me>
To:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Cc:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
        containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
        Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@...hat.com>,
        Robert Sesek <rsesek@...gle.com>,
        Chris Palmer <palmer@...gle.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt Denton <mpdenton@...gle.com>,
        John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, cgroups@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to
 move fds across processes

On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 07:59:55PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> 
> Yeah, that seems reasonable. Here's the diff for that part:
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> index 7b6028b399d8..98bf19b4e086 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> @@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ struct seccomp_notif_resp {
>  
>  /**
>   * struct seccomp_notif_addfd
> - * @size: The size of the seccomp_notif_addfd datastructure
>   * @id: The ID of the seccomp notification
>   * @flags: SECCOMP_ADDFD_FLAG_*
>   * @srcfd: The local fd number
> @@ -126,7 +125,6 @@ struct seccomp_notif_resp {
>   * @newfd_flags: The O_* flags the remote FD should have applied
>   */
>  struct seccomp_notif_addfd {
> -	__u64 size;
>  	__u64 id;
>  	__u32 flags;
>  	__u32 srcfd;
> diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c
> index 3c913f3b8451..00cbdad6c480 100644
> --- a/kernel/seccomp.c
> +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c
> @@ -1297,14 +1297,9 @@ static long seccomp_notify_addfd(struct seccomp_filter *filter,
>  	struct seccomp_notif_addfd addfd;
>  	struct seccomp_knotif *knotif;
>  	struct seccomp_kaddfd kaddfd;
> -	u64 size;
>  	int ret;
>  
> -	ret = get_user(size, &uaddfd->size);
> -	if (ret)
> -		return ret;
> -
> -	ret = copy_struct_from_user(&addfd, sizeof(addfd), uaddfd, size);
> +	ret = copy_from_user(&addfd, uaddfd, sizeof(addfd));
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> 
Looks good to me. If we ever change the size of this struct, we can do the work 
then to copy_struct_from_user.

> > 
> > ----
> > +#define SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD	SECCOMP_IOR(3,	\
> > +						struct seccomp_notif_addfd)
> > 
> > Lastly, what I believe to be a small mistake, it should be SECCOMP_IOW, based on 
> > the documentation in ioctl.h -- "_IOW means userland is writing and kernel is 
> > reading."
> 
> Oooooh. Yeah; good catch. Uhm, that means SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID
> is wrong too, yes? Tycho, Christian, how disruptive would this be to
> fix? (Perhaps support both and deprecate the IOR version at some point
> in the future?)
I think at a minimum we should change the uapi, and accept both (for now). Maybe 
a pr_warn_once telling people not to use the old one.

I can do the patch, if you want. 
> 
> Diff for just addfd's change:
> 
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> index 7b6028b399d8..98bf19b4e086 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/seccomp.h
> @@ -146,7 +144,7 @@ struct seccomp_notif_addfd {
>  						struct seccomp_notif_resp)
>  #define SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID	SECCOMP_IOR(2, __u64)
>  /* On success, the return value is the remote process's added fd number */
> -#define SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD	SECCOMP_IOR(3,	\
> +#define SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD	SECCOMP_IOW(3,	\
>  						struct seccomp_notif_addfd)
>  
>  #endif /* _UAPI_LINUX_SECCOMP_H */
> 
> -- 
> Kees Cook
Looks good. Thank you.