On 2019-09-05, Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:19:22AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:A common pattern for syscall extensions is increasing the size of a struct passed from userspace, such that the zero-value of the new fields result in the old kernel behaviour (allowing for a mix of userspace and kernel vintages to operate on one another in most cases). This is done in both directions -- hence two helpers -- though it's more common to have to copy user space structs into kernel space. Previously there was no common lib/ function that implemented the necessary extension-checking semantics (and different syscalls implemented them slightly differently or incompletely[1]). A future patch replaces all of the common uses of this pattern to use the new copy_struct_{to,from}_user() helpers. [1]: For instance {sched_setattr,perf_event_open,clone3}(2) all do do similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) always rejects differently-sized struct arguments. Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@xxxxxxxxxx>I would probably split this out into a separate patchset. It can very well go in before openat2(). Thoughts?
Yeah, I'll split this and the related patches out -- though I will admit I'm not sure how you're supposed to deal with multiple independent patchsets that depend on each other. How will folks reviewing openat2(2) know to include the lib/struct_user.c changes? Also, whose tree should it go through? -- Aleksa Sarai Senior Software Engineer (Containers) SUSE Linux GmbH <https://www.cyphar.com/>
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