Re: [PATCH 5.4 033/222] io_uring: only allow submit from owning task

From: Stefan Metzmacher
Date: Fri Jan 24 2020 - 05:41:28 EST


Am 24.01.20 um 11:38 schrieb Stefan Metzmacher:
> Am 22.01.20 um 10:26 schrieb Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>> From: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> commit 44d282796f81eb1debc1d7cb53245b4cb3214cb5 upstream.
>>
>> If the credentials or the mm doesn't match, don't allow the task to
>> submit anything on behalf of this ring. The task that owns the ring can
>> pass the file descriptor to another task, but we don't want to allow
>> that task to submit an SQE that then assumes the ring mm and creds if
>> it needs to go async.
>>
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Suggested-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>> ---
>> fs/io_uring.c | 6 ++++++
>> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> --- a/fs/io_uring.c
>> +++ b/fs/io_uring.c
>> @@ -3716,6 +3716,12 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE6(io_uring_enter, unsigned
>> wake_up(&ctx->sqo_wait);
>> submitted = to_submit;
>> } else if (to_submit) {
>> + if (current->mm != ctx->sqo_mm ||
>> + current_cred() != ctx->creds) {
>> + ret = -EPERM;
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>
> I thought about this a bit more.
>
> I'm not sure if this is actually to restrictive,
> because it means applications like Samba won't
> be able to use io-uring at all.

Even for simple operations like IORING_OP_READ*, IORING_OP_WRITE*,
IORING_OP_FSYNC and IORING_OP_SYNC_FILE_RANGE, which only operate
on the given fd.

metze

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