Re: [PATCH] pidfs: improve ioctl handling

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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 13:51, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Pidfs supports extensible and non-extensible ioctls. The extensible
> ioctls need to check for the ioctl number itself not just the ioctl
> command otherwise both backward- and forward compatibility are broken.
>
> The pidfs ioctl handler also needs to look at the type of the ioctl
> command to guard against cases where "[...] a daemon receives some
> random file descriptor from a (potentially less privileged) client and
> expects the FD to be of some specific type, it might call ioctl() on
> this FD with some type-specific command and expect the call to fail if
> the FD is of the wrong type; but due to the missing type check, the
> kernel instead performs some action that userspace didn't expect."
> (cf. [1]]
>
> Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.13
> Fixes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAG48ez2K9A5GwtgqO31u9ZL292we8ZwAA=TJwwEv7wRuJ3j4Lw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [1]
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Hey,
>
> Jann reported that the pidfs extensible ioctl checking has two issues:
>
> (1) We check for the ioctl command, not the number breaking forward and
>     backward compatibility.
>
> (2) We don't verify the type encoded in the ioctl to guard against
>     ioctl number collisions.
>
> This adresses both.
>
> Greg, when this patch (or a version thereof) lands upstream then it
> needs to please be backported to v6.13 together with the already
> upstream commit 8ce352818820 ("pidfs: check for valid ioctl commands").
>
> Christian

Thanks for the fixes, LGTM

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@xxxxxxxxx>




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