Re: [PATCH] nsfs: fix oops when ns->ops is not provided

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Tue Jun 01 2021 - 16:26:08 EST


On Tue, 1 Jun 2021 10:06:54 +0200 Christian Brauner wrote:
> > I'm not sure why we'd pick runtime checks for something that can be
> > perfectly easily solved at compilation time. Networking should not
> > be asking for FDs for objects which don't exist.
>
> Agreed!
> This should be fixable by sm like:
>
> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
> index 27e3e7d53f8e..2484466d96ad 100644
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -1150,10 +1150,12 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
> break;
> case SIOCGSKNS:
> err = -EPERM;
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
> if (!ns_capable(net->user_ns, CAP_NET_ADMIN))
> break;
>
> err = open_related_ns(&net->ns, get_net_ns);
> +#endif
> break;
> case SIOCGSTAMP_OLD:
> case SIOCGSTAMPNS_OLD:

Thanks! You weren't CCed on v1, so FWIW I was suggesting
checking in get_net_ns(), to catch other callers:

diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index 27e3e7d53f8e..3b44f2700e0c 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -1081,6 +1081,8 @@ static long sock_do_ioctl(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,

struct ns_common *get_net_ns(struct ns_common *ns)
{
+ if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NET_NS))
+ return ERR_PTR(-EOPNOTSUPP);
return &get_net(container_of(ns, struct net, ns))->ns;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_net_ns);