Re: [PATCH 01/29] Revert "userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features"

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On 30.03.23 17:56, Peter Xu wrote:
This is a proposal to revert commit 914eedcb9ba0ff53c33808.

I found this when writting a simple UFFDIO_API test to be the first unit
test in this set.  Two things breaks with the commit:

   - UFFDIO_API check was lost and missing.  According to man page, the
   kernel should reject ioctl(UFFDIO_API) if uffdio_api.api != 0xaa.  This
   check is needed if the api version will be extended in the future, or
   user app won't be able to identify which is a new kernel.

Agreed.


   - Feature flags checks were removed, which means UFFDIO_API with a
   feature that does not exist will also succeed.  According to the man
   page, we should (and it makes sense) to reject ioctl(UFFDIO_API) if
   unknown features passed in.


Agreed.

I understand the motivation of the original commit, but it should not have changed existing checks/functionality. Introducing a different way to enable such functionality on explicit request would be better. But maybe simple feature probing (is X support? is Y supported? is Z supported) might be easier without requiring ABI changes.

I assume we better add

Fixes: 914eedcb9ba0 ("userfaultfd: don't fail on unrecognized features")


Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220722201513.1624158-1-axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
  fs/userfaultfd.c | 6 ++++--
  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/userfaultfd.c b/fs/userfaultfd.c
index 8395605790f6..3b2a41c330e6 100644
--- a/fs/userfaultfd.c
+++ b/fs/userfaultfd.c
@@ -1977,8 +1977,10 @@ static int userfaultfd_api(struct userfaultfd_ctx *ctx,
  	ret = -EFAULT;
  	if (copy_from_user(&uffdio_api, buf, sizeof(uffdio_api)))
  		goto out;
-	/* Ignore unsupported features (userspace built against newer kernel) */
-	features = uffdio_api.features & UFFD_API_FEATURES;
+	features = uffdio_api.features;
+	ret = -EINVAL;
+	if (uffdio_api.api != UFFD_API || (features & ~UFFD_API_FEATURES))
+		goto err_out;
  	ret = -EPERM;
  	if ((features & UFFD_FEATURE_EVENT_FORK) && !capable(CAP_SYS_PTRACE))
  		goto err_out;

--
Thanks,

David / dhildenb




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