Re: [PATCH] pidfs: improve ioctl handling

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On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 01:16:55PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 02:51:20PM +0100, Christian Brauner 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]
> 
> This is not a proper Fixes: tag.

Fixed.




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