From: Kees Cook > Sent: 16 June 2020 04:25 > > For both pidfd and seccomp, the __user pointer is not used. Update > __fd_install_received() to make writing to ufd optional. (ufd > itself cannot checked for NULL because this changes the SCM_RIGHTS > interface behavior.) In these cases, the new fd needs to be returned > on success. Update the existing callers to handle it. Add new wrapper > fd_install_received() for pidfd and seccomp that does not use the ufd > argument. ...> > static inline int fd_install_received_user(struct file *file, int __user *ufd, > unsigned int o_flags) > { > - return __fd_install_received(file, ufd, o_flags); > + return __fd_install_received(file, true, ufd, o_flags); > +} Can you get rid of the 'return user' parameter by adding if (!ufd) return -EFAULT; to the above wrapper, then checking for NULL in the function? Or does that do the wrong horrid things in the fail path? David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)