netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] io_uring: allow tcp ancillary data for __sys_recvmsg

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Date:   Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:10:54 -0600
From:   Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:     Luke Hsiao <luke.w.hsiao@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, Luke Hsiao <lukehsiao@...gle.com>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] io_uring: allow tcp ancillary data for
 __sys_recvmsg_sock()

On 8/20/20 5:49 PM, Luke Hsiao wrote:
> From: Luke Hsiao <lukehsiao@...gle.com>
> 
> For TCP tx zero-copy, the kernel notifies the process of completions by
> queuing completion notifications on the socket error queue. This patch
> allows reading these notifications via recvmsg to support TCP tx
> zero-copy.
> 
> Ancillary data was originally disallowed due to privilege escalation
> via io_uring's offloading of sendmsg() onto a kernel thread with kernel
> credentials (https://crbug.com/project-zero/1975). So, we must ensure
> that the socket type is one where the ancillary data types that are
> delivered on recvmsg are plain data (no file descriptors or values that
> are translated based on the identity of the calling process).
> 
> This was tested by using io_uring to call recvmsg on the MSG_ERRQUEUE
> with tx zero-copy enabled. Before this patch, we received -EINVALID from
> this specific code path. After this patch, we could read tcp tx
> zero-copy completion notifications from the MSG_ERRQUEUE.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com>
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Luke Hsiao <lukehsiao@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>

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Jens Axboe