Re: For review: seccomp_user_notif(2) manual page

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> > Consider the following scenario (with supervisor "S" and target "T"; S
> > wants to wait for events on two file descriptors seccomp_fd and
> > other_fd):
> >
> > S: starts poll() to wait for events on seccomp_fd and other_fd
> > T: performs a syscall that's filtered with RET_USER_NOTIF
> > S: poll() returns and signals readiness of seccomp_fd
> > T: receives signal SIGUSR1
> > T: syscall aborts, enters signal handler
> > T: signal handler blocks on unfiltered syscall (e.g. write())
> > S: starts SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV
> > S: blocks because no syscalls are pending
> >
> > Depending on what other_fd is, this could in a worst case even lead to
> > a deadlock (if e.g. the signal handler wants to write to stdout, but
> > the stdout fd is hooked up to other_fd in the supervisor, but the
> > supervisor can't consume the data written because it's stuck in
> > seccomp handling).
> >
> > So we have to ensure that when existing code (like that crun code you
> > linked to) triggers this case, SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV returns
> > immediately instead of blocking.
> 
> Or I guess we could also just set O_NONBLOCK on the fd by default?
> Since the one existing user is eventloop-based...

I feel like it's ok to return an error from the RECV ioctl() if
there's never going to be any more events on the fd; was there
something fundamentally wrong with your patch here:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAG48ez2xn+_KznEztJ-eVTsTzkbf9CVgPqaAk7TpRNAqbdaRoA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
?

That seemed reasonable to me (although maybe nicer if we could get rid
of the open-ish coded semaphore; I couldn't figure out how though).

Tycho
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