Re: [PATCH 3/9] procfs: add proc_read_from_buffer() and pid_entry_read() helpers

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 6:27 AM, Djalal Harouni <tixxdz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This patch is preparation, it adds a couple of helpers to read data and
> to get the cached permission checks during that ->read().
>
> Currently INF entries share the same code, they do not implement
> specific ->open(), only ->read() coupled with callback calls. Doing
> permission checks during ->open() will not work and will only disturb
> the INF entries that do not need permission checks. Yes not all the INF
> entries need checks, the ones that need protections are listed below:
> /proc/<pid>/wchan
> /proc/<pid>/syscall
> /proc/<pid>/{auxv,io}  (will be handled in next patches).
>
> So to have proper permission checks convert this INF entries to REG
> entries and use their open() and read() handlers to implement these
> checks. To achieve this we add the following helpers:
>
> * proc_read_from_buffer() a wrapper around simple_read_from_buffer(), it
>   makes sure that count <= PROC_BLOCK_SIZE (3*1024)
>
> * pid_entry_read(): it will get a free page and pass it to the specific
>   /proc/<pid>/$entry handler (callback). The handler is of the same
>   types of the previous INF handlers, it will only receive an extra
>   "permitted" argument that contains the cached permission check that
>   was performed during ->open().
>
>   The handler is of type:
>   typedef int (*proc_read_fn_t)(char *page,
>                                struct task_struct *task, int permitted);

[...]

This strikes me as *way* too complicated.  Why not just change
proc_info_file_operations to *always* cache may_ptrace on open?

FWIW, it's been awhile: was anything actually wrong with using f_cred,
other than the fact that it would have required adjusting the LSM
hooks?

Admittedly, I don't see anything fundamentally wrong with caching
may_ptrace on open as long as revoke in in the cards eventually, but
it's plausible that a good f_cred-based implementation would make
revoke less necessary.

--Andy
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