On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 07:32:33PM +0800, Yongji Xie wrote: > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 5:15 PM Christian Brauner > <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 04:05:10PM +0800, Xie Yongji wrote: > > > Export receive_fd() so that some modules can use > > > it to pass file descriptor between processes without > > > missing any security stuffs. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > --- > > > > Yeah, as I said in the other mail I'd be comfortable with exposing just > > this variant of the helper. > > Thanks, I got it now. > > > Maybe this should be a separate patch bundled together with Christoph's > > patch to split parts of receive_fd() into a separate helper. > > Do we need to add the seccomp notifier into the separate helper? In > our case, the file passed to the separate helper is from another > process. Not sure what you mean. Christoph has proposed https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20210325082209.1067987-2-hch@xxxxxx I was just saying that if we think this patch is useful we might bundle it together with the EXPORT_SYMBOL(receive_fd) part here, convert all drivers that currently open-code get_unused_fd() + fd_install() to use receive_fd(), and make this a separate patchset. I don't think that needs to hinder reviewing your series though. Christian