> > I mean, yes, that's certainly better, but it just seems a shame that > everyone has to do the get_unused/put_unused dance just because of how > SCM_RIGHTS does this weird put_user() in the middle. > > Can anyone clarify the expected failure mode from SCM_RIGHTS? Can we > move the put_user() after instead? I think cleanup would just be: > replace_fd(fd, NULL, 0) > > So: > > (updated to skip sock updates on failure; thank you Christian!) > > int file_receive(int fd, unsigned long flags, struct file *file) > { > struct socket *sock; > int ret; > > ret = security_file_receive(file); > if (ret) > return ret; > > /* Install the file. */ > if (fd == -1) { > ret = get_unused_fd_flags(flags); > if (ret >= 0) > fd_install(ret, get_file(file)); > } else { > ret = replace_fd(fd, file, flags); > } > > /* Bump the sock usage counts. */ > if (ret >= 0) { > sock = sock_from_file(addfd->file, &err); > if (sock) { > sock_update_netprioidx(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data); > sock_update_classid(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data); > } > } > > return ret; > } > > scm_detach_fds() > ... > for (i=0, cmfptr=(__force int __user *)CMSG_DATA(cm); i<fdmax; > i++, cmfptr++) > { > int new_fd; > > err = file_receive(-1, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC & msg->msg_flags > ? O_CLOEXEC : 0, fp[i]); > if (err < 0) > break; > new_fd = err; > Isn't the "right" way to do this to allocate a bunch of file descriptors, and fill up the user buffer with them, and then install the files? This seems to like half-install the file descriptors and then error out. I know that's the current behaviour, but that seems like a bad idea. Do we really want to perpetuate this half-broken state? I guess that some userspace programs could be depending on this -- and their recovery semantics could rely on this. I mean this is 10+ year old code. > err = put_user(err, cmfptr); > if (err) { > /* > * If we can't notify userspace that it got the > * fd, we need to unwind and remove it again. > */ > replace_fd(new_fd, NULL, 0); > break; > } > } > ... > > > > -- > Kees Cook