linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/4] scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM

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Message-ID: <CAEivzxfhLC5zSxPUk8PE6jC9s0KbAzD2YzbomY2-skpF-dKMog@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 1 Sep 2023 23:11:09 +0200
From:   Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>
To:     Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com>
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        brauner@...nel.org, davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v7 1/4] scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD

On Fri, Sep 1, 2023 at 10:56 PM Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...zon.com> wrote:
>
> From: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 22:51:45 +0200
> > On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 01:33:22PM -0700, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> > > From: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>
> > > Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2023 22:05:17 +0200
> > > > On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 10:26:25PM +0200, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > > > > +       if ((msg->msg_controllen <= sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) ||
> > > > > +           (msg->msg_controllen - sizeof(struct cmsghdr)) < sizeof(int)) {
> > > > > +               msg->msg_flags |= MSG_CTRUNC;
> > > > > +               return;
> > > > > +       }
> > > >
> > > > This does not work for compat tasks since the size of struct cmsghdr (aka
> > > > struct compat_cmsghdr) is differently. If the check from put_cmsg() is
> > > > open-coded here, then also a different check for compat tasks needs to be
> > > > added.
> > > >
> > > > Discovered this because I was wondering why strace compat tests fail; it
> > > > seems because of this.
> > > >
> > > > See https://github.com/strace/strace/blob/master/tests/scm_pidfd.c
> > > >
> > > > For compat tasks recvmsg() returns with msg_flags=MSG_CTRUNC since the
> > > > above code expects a larger buffer than is necessary.
> > >
> > > Can you test this ?
> >
> > Works for me.
> >
> > Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@...ux.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@...onical.com>

Thanks for reporting this, Heiko!
My bad.

Kuniyuki,
Thanks for the quick fix.

Kind regards,
Alex

>
> Thanks!
> I'll post a formal patch.