Re: [PATCH v7 3/9] net/scm: Regularize compat handling of scm_detach_fds()

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On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 3:18 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2020 at 01:29:24PM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 11:28 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Duplicate the cleanups from commit 2618d530dd8b ("net/scm: cleanup
> > > scm_detach_fds") into the compat code.
> > >
> > > Replace open-coded __receive_sock() with a call to the helper.
> > >
> > > Move the check added in commit 1f466e1f15cf ("net: cleanly handle kernel
> > > vs user buffers for ->msg_control") to before the compat call, even
> > > though it should be impossible for an in-kernel call to also be compat.
> > >
> > > Correct the int "flags" argument to unsigned int to match fd_install()
> > > and similar APIs.
> > >
> > > Regularize any remaining differences, including a whitespace issue,
> > > a checkpatch warning, and add the check from commit 6900317f5eff ("net,
> > > scm: fix PaX detected msg_controllen overflow in scm_detach_fds") which
> > > fixed an overflow unique to 64-bit. To avoid confusion when comparing
> > > the compat handler to the native handler, just include the same check
> > > in the compat handler.
> > >
> > > Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> >
> > Hey Kees,
> >   So during the merge window (while chasing a few other regressions),
> > I noticed occasionally my Dragonboard 845c running AOSP having trouble
> > with the web browser crashing or other apps hanging, and I've bisected
> > the issue down to this change.
> >
> > Unfortunately it doesn't revert cleanly so I can't validate reverting
> > it sorts things against linus/HEAD.  Anyway, I wanted to check and see
> > if you had any other reports of similar or any ideas what might be
> > going wrong?
>
> Hi; Yes, sorry for the trouble. I had a typo in a refactor of
> SCM_RIGHTS. I suspect it'll be fixed by this:
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1fa2c0a0c814fbae0eb3e79a510765225570d043
>
> Can you verify Linus's latest tree works for you? If not, there might be
> something else hiding in the corners...

Thanks so much! Yes, I just updated to Linus' latest and the issue has
disappeared!

thanks again!
-john



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