Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add a new sysctl to disable io_uring system-wide

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On 6/27/23 05:00, Matteo Rizzo wrote:
+Prevents all processes from creating new io_uring instances. Enabling this
+shrinks the kernel's attack surface.
+
+= =============================================================
+0 All processes can create io_uring instances as normal. This is the default
+  setting.
+1 io_uring is disabled. io_uring_setup always fails with -EPERM. Existing
+  io_uring instances can still be used.
+= =============================================================

I'm using fio + io_uring all the time on Android devices. I think we need a
better solution than disabling io_uring system-wide, e.g. a mechanism based
on SELinux that disables io_uring for apps and that keeps io_uring enabled
for processes started via 'adb root && adb shell ...'

Bart.




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