On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 09:59:25AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:10 AM, Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/process-io.h
> > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/process-io.h
> > @@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
> > #ifndef _X86_KERNEL_PROCESS_IO_H
> > #define _X86_KERNEL_PROCESS_IO_H
> >
> > +static inline void clear_thread_io_bitmap(struct task_struct *p)
> > +{
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_IOPORT
> > + p->thread.io_bitmap_ptr = NULL;
> > +#endif /* CONFIG_X86_IOPORT */
> > +}
>
> Personally, I prefer seeing these kinds of optional functions declared
> in a single block rather than having the #ifdefs inside the functions:
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86_IOPORT
> static inline void clear_thread_io_bitmap(struct task_struct *p)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> static inline int copy_io_bitmap(struct task_struct *me,
> struct task_struct *p)
> {
> ...
> }
>
> ...remaining_functions...
>
> #else
> static inline void clear_thread_io_bitmap(struct task_struct *p) { }
> static inline int copy_io_bitmap(struct task_struct *me,
> struct task_struct *p)
> {
> return 0;
> }
> ...remaining functions...
> #endif /* CONFIG_X86_IOPORT */
>
> But this is entirely a style decision, so I leave it up to the x86
> maintainers ...
I can certainly do that if the x86 maintainers prefer, but that tends to
produce a net increase in lines of code, as well as duplicating all the
function prototypes, which to me seems more error-prone. If the
stub versions contained any code, rather than just becoming no-ops, I'd
definitely do that.
> Another nit may be that we should call this CONFIG_SYSCALL_IOPL or
> CONFIG_SYSCALL_IOPERM in keeping with the other CONFIG_SYSCALL_*
> naming thread? Again, I don't really care strongly beyond really
> wanting to use this new feature! :)
I don't feel strongly about the naming. Ingo?
> Thanks for working on this!
No problem. I look forward to seeing it used, in Chrome OS and
elsewhere. :)
- Josh Triplett
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