On 12/29/21 6:17 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2021 at 12:30:01PM -0800, Stefan Roesch wrote: > >> +static int __io_setxattr_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, >> + const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe) >> +{ >> + struct io_xattr *ix = &req->xattr; >> + const char __user *name; >> + int ret; >> + >> + if (unlikely(req->ctx->flags & IORING_SETUP_IOPOLL)) >> + return -EINVAL; >> + if (unlikely(sqe->ioprio)) >> + return -EINVAL; >> + if (unlikely(req->flags & REQ_F_FIXED_FILE)) >> + return -EBADF; >> + >> + ix->filename = NULL; >> + name = u64_to_user_ptr(READ_ONCE(sqe->addr)); >> + ix->ctx.value = u64_to_user_ptr(READ_ONCE(sqe->addr2)); >> + ix->ctx.kvalue = NULL; >> + ix->ctx.size = READ_ONCE(sqe->len); >> + ix->ctx.flags = READ_ONCE(sqe->xattr_flags); >> + >> + ix->ctx.kname = kmalloc(sizeof(*ix->ctx.kname), GFP_KERNEL); >> + if (!ix->ctx.kname) >> + return -ENOMEM; >> + >> + ret = setxattr_copy(name, &ix->ctx); >> + if (ret) { >> + kfree(ix->ctx.kname); >> + return ret; >> + } >> + >> + req->flags |= REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP; >> + return 0; >> +} > > OK, so you > * allocate a buffer for xattr name > * have setxattr_copy() copy the name in *and* memdup the contents > * on failure, you have the buffer for xattr name freed and return > an error. memdup'ed stuff is left for cleanup, presumably. > >> +static int io_setxattr_prep(struct io_kiocb *req, >> + const struct io_uring_sqe *sqe) >> +{ >> + struct io_xattr *ix = &req->xattr; >> + const char __user *path; >> + int ret; >> + >> + ret = __io_setxattr_prep(req, sqe); >> + if (ret) >> + return ret; >> + >> + path = u64_to_user_ptr(READ_ONCE(sqe->addr3)); >> + >> + ix->filename = getname_flags(path, LOOKUP_FOLLOW, NULL); >> + if (IS_ERR(ix->filename)) { >> + ret = PTR_ERR(ix->filename); >> + ix->filename = NULL; >> + } >> + >> + return ret; >> +} > > ... and here you use it and bring the pathname in. Should the latter > step fail, you restore ->filename to NULL and return an error. > > Could you explain what kind of magic could allow the caller to tell > whether ix->ctx.kname needs to be freed on error? I don't see any way > that could possibly work... At the end of the function __io_setxattr_prep() we set the flag REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP. If the processing fails for some reason, the cleanup code in io_clean_op() gets called and the data structures get de-allocated. In case the request is processed successfully, the memory gets de-allocated in io_setxattr() and io_fsetxattr() with the helper function __io_setxattr_finish(). The helper function clears the flag REQ_F_NEED_CLEANUP, so clean up is not necessary. This is the general pattern of cleanup in io-uring. I can certainly add a cleanup function, that is called in all 3 cases: - io_setxattr, - io_fsetxattr - io_clean_op