Re: [PATCH] pidfs: improve ioctl handling

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM 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]]

Thanks, this looks good to me.





[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Development Newbies]     [Linux USB Devel]     [Video for Linux]     [Linux Audio Users]     [Yosemite Hiking]     [Linux Kernel]     [Linux SCSI]

  Powered by Linux