netdev - Re: UNIX(7)

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Message-ID: <ZWnXlcsVJfPO1Qsb@debian>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2023 13:54:39 +0100
From: Alejandro Colomar <alx@...nel.org>
To: Alexey Tikhonov <atikhono@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-man@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: UNIX(7)

Hello Alexey,

On Fri, Dec 01, 2023 at 01:16:27PM +0100, Alexey Tikhonov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> There is a discrepancy between the man page description of
> 'SO_PEERCRED' and real behavior.
> 
> `man 7 unix` states:
> ```
>        SO_PEERCRED
>               This read-only socket option returns the credentials of
>               the peer process connected to this socket.  The returned
>               credentials are those that were in effect at the time of
>               the call to connect(2) or socketpair(2).
> ```
> 
> This doesn't match real behavior in following situation (just an example):
>  - process starts with uid=0, gid=0
>  - process creates UNIX socket, binds it, listens on it
>  - process changes to uid=uid1, git=gid1 (using `setresuid()`, `setresgid()`)
>  - another process connects to the listening socket and requests
> peer's credentials using `getsockopt(... SOL_SOCKET, SO_PEERCRED ...)`
> 
> According to the man page: SO_PEERCRED should report (uid1, gid1),
> because peer process was running under (uid1, gid1) "at the time of
> the call to connect(2)"
> In reality SO_PEERCRED reports (0, 0)
> Reproducing code is available in
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247682
> 
> I'm not entirely sure if this is a real bug or rather a  poor
> description in the man page, but I tend to think that it's the latter.

I've CCed netdev@, since they probably know better.

Thanks,
Alex

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