Re: [PATCH 0/2] Use __scm_install_fd() more widely

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 10:52:54 EST


On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:47:35AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 09:52:12PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This extends the recent work hch did for scm_detach_fds(), and updates
> > the compat path as well, fixing bugs in the process. Additionally,
> > an effectively incomplete and open-coded __scm_install_fd() is fixed
> > in pidfd_getfd().
>
> Since __scm_detach_fds() becomes something that is available outside of
> net/* should we provide a static inline wrapper under a different name? The
> "socket-level control message" prefix seems a bit odd in pidfd_getfd()
> and - once we make use of it there - seccomp.
>
> I'd suggest we do:
>
> static inline int fd_install_received(struct file *file, unsigned int flags)
> {
> return __scm_install_fd(file, NULL, flags);
> }
>
> which can be called in pidfd_getfd() and once we have other callers that
> want the additional put_user() (e.g. seccomp_ in there we simply add:
>
> static inline fd_install_user(struct file *file, unsigned int flags, int __user *ufd)
> {
> return __scm_install_fd(file, ufd, flags);
> }
>
> and seems the wrappers both could happily live in the fs part of the world?

Yeah, this seems good. I also note that randconfigs are kicking back my
series as broken when CONFIG_NET=n (oops), so this needs some refactoring
before patch 2.

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Kees Cook