Re: [PATCH] net: don't unconditionally copy_from_user a struct ifreq for socket ioctls

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 3:28 AM Peter Collingbourne <pcc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> -       } else {
> +       } else if (is_dev_ioctl_cmd(cmd)) {
>                 struct ifreq ifr;
>                 bool need_copyout;
>                 if (copy_from_user(&ifr, argp, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
> @@ -1118,6 +1118,8 @@ static long sock_do_ioctl(struct net *net, struct socket *sock,
>                 if (!err && need_copyout)
>                         if (copy_to_user(argp, &ifr, sizeof(struct ifreq)))
>                                 return -EFAULT;
> +       } else {
> +               err = -ENOTTY;
>         }
>         return err;
>  }
> @@ -3306,6 +3308,8 @@ static int compat_ifr_data_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd,
>         struct ifreq ifreq;
>         u32 data32;
>
> +       if (!is_dev_ioctl_cmd(cmd))
> +               return -ENOTTY;
>         if (copy_from_user(ifreq.ifr_name, u_ifreq32->ifr_name, IFNAMSIZ))
>                 return -EFAULT;
>         if (get_user(data32, &u_ifreq32->ifr_data))

This adds yet another long switch() statement into the socket ioctl
case, when there
is already one in compat_sock_ioctl_trans(), one in dev_ifsioc() and one in
dev_ioctl(), all with roughly the same set of ioctl command codes. If
any of them
are called frequently, that makes it all even slower, so I wonder if
there should
be a larger rework altogether. Maybe something based on a single lookup table
that we search through directly from sock_ioctl()/compat_sock_ioctl() to deal
with the differences in handling (ifreq based, compat handler, proto_ops
override, dev_load, rtnl_lock, rcu_read_lock, CAP_NET_ADMIN, copyout, ...).

You are also adding the checks into different places for native and compat
mode, which makes them diverge more when we should be trying to
make them more common.

I think based on my recent changes, some other simplifications are possible,
based on how the compat path already enumerates all the dev ioctls.

        Arnd