Re: [PATCH] clone3: add build-time CLONE_ARGS_SIZE_VER* validity checks

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Sun Apr 12 2020 - 17:28:36 EST


On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:26:58PM +0200, Eugene Syromiatnikov wrote:
> CLONE_ARGS_SIZE_VER* macros are defined explicitly and not via
> the offsets of the relevant struct clone_args fields, which makes
> it rather error-prone, so it probably makes sense to add some
> compile-time checks for them (including the one that breaks
> on struct clone_args extension as a reminder to add a relevant
> size macro and a similar check). Function copy_clone_args_from_user
> seems to be a good place for such checks.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yeah, that seems like a good idea to me.
Thanks, will queue for rc2 unless I hear objections.

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>