Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Jun 12 2020 - 14:28:30 EST


On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 08:13:25AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 10:46:30AM +0000, Sargun Dhillon wrote:
> > My suggest, written out (no idea if this code actually works), is as follows:
> >
> > ioctl.h:
> > /* This needs to be added */
> > #define IOCDIR_MASK (_IOC_DIRMASK << _IOC_DIRSHIFT)
>
> This exists already:
>
> #define _IOC_DIRMASK ((1 << _IOC_DIRBITS)-1)
>
> >
> >
> > seccomp.h:
> >
> > struct struct seccomp_notif_addfd {
> > __u64 fd;
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > /* or IOW? */
> > #define SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD SECCOMP_IOWR(3, struct seccomp_notif_addfd)
> >
> > seccomp.c:
> > static long seccomp_notify_addfd(struct seccomp_filter *filter,
> > struct seccomp_notif_addfd __user *uaddfd int size)
> > {
> > struct seccomp_notif_addfd addfd;
> > int ret;
> >
> > if (size < 32)
> > return -EINVAL;
> > if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
> > return -E2BIG;
>
> (Tanget: what was the reason for copy_struct_from_user() not including
> the min/max check? I have a memory of Al objecting to having an
> "internal" limit?)

Al didn't want the PAGE_SIZE limit in there because there's nothing
inherently wrong with copying insane amounts of memory.

(Another tangent. I've asked this on Twitter not too long ago: do we
have stats how long copy_from_user()/copy_struct_from_user() takes with
growing struct/memory size? I'd be really interested in this. I have a
feeling that clone3()'s and - having had a chat with David Howells -
openat2()'s structs will continue to grow for a while... and I'd really
like to have some numbers on when copy_struct_from_user() becomes
costly or how costly it becomes.)

>
> >
> > ret = copy_struct_from_user(&addfd, sizeof(addfd), uaddfd, size);
> > if (ret)
> > return ret;
> >
> > ...
> > }
> >
> > /* Mask out size */
> > #define SIZE_MASK(cmd) (~IOCSIZE_MASK & cmd)
> >
> > /* Mask out direction */
> > #define DIR_MASK(cmd) (~IOCDIR_MASK & cmd)
> >
> > static long seccomp_notify_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> > unsigned long arg)
> > {
> > struct seccomp_filter *filter = file->private_data;
> > void __user *buf = (void __user *)arg;
> >
> > /* Fixed size ioctls. Can be converted later on? */
> > switch (cmd) {
> > case SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV:
> > return seccomp_notify_recv(filter, buf);
> > case SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND:
> > return seccomp_notify_send(filter, buf);
> > case SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID:
> > return seccomp_notify_id_valid(filter, buf);
> > }
> >
> > /* Probably should make some nicer macros here */
> > switch (SIZE_MASK(DIR_MASK(cmd))) {
> > case SIZE_MASK(DIR_MASK(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD)):
>
> Ah yeah, I like this because of what you mention below: it's forward
> compat too. (I'd just use the ioctl masks directly...)
>
> switch (cmd & ~(_IOC_SIZEMASK | _IOC_DIRMASK))
>
> > return seccomp_notify_addfd(filter, buf, _IOC_SIZE(cmd));
>
> I really like that this ends up having the same construction as a
> standard EA syscall: the size is part of the syscall arguments.

This is basically what I had proposed in my previous mail, right?

Christian