Re: seccomp feature development

[Sargun Dhillon]

On Tue, May 19, 2020 at 12:39:39AM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> > For user_notif, I think we need something in and around these options:
> >
> > - make a new API that explicitly follows EA struct design
> >   (and while read()/write() might be easier[4], I tend to agree with
> >   Jann and we need to stick to ioctl(): as Tycho noted, "read/write is
> >   for data". Though I wonder if read() could be used for the notifications,
> >   which ARE data, and use ioctl() for the responses?)
> 
> Just as a note: If we use read() there, we'll never be able to
> transfer things like FDs through that API.
> 
Although there is no good reason for read being able to receive FDs, there is
precedence for recvmsg being able to do this. Either way, I do not think
it's a good idea to recv file descriptors, and instead file descriptors
should be fetched via the pidfd_getfd syscall.

Injection is more complicated, and for now, I believe that "writes" should
be done via ioctl, or in the future, something like sendmsg might work.