Thread (38 messages) 38 messages, 4 authors, 2020-06-15

Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes

From: Christian Brauner <hidden>
Date: 2020-06-10 09:31:09
Also in: linux-fsdevel, lkml, stable

On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 11:27:30PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
On June 9, 2020 10:55:42 PM GMT+02:00, Kees Cook [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
quoted
I'm looking at __scm_install_fd() and I wonder what specifically you
mean by that? The put_user() seems to be placed such that the install
occurrs only if it succeeded. Sure, it only handles a single fd but
whatever. Userspace knows that already. Just look at systemd when a
msg
quoted
fails:

void cmsg_close_all(struct msghdr *mh) {
        struct cmsghdr *cmsg;

        assert(mh);

        CMSG_FOREACH(cmsg, mh)
                if (cmsg->cmsg_level == SOL_SOCKET && cmsg->cmsg_type
== SCM_RIGHTS)
quoted
                        close_many((int*) CMSG_DATA(cmsg),
(cmsg->cmsg_len - CMSG_LEN(0)) / sizeof(int));
quoted
}

The only reasonable scenario for this whole mess I can think of is sm
like (pseudo code):
quoted
fd_install_received(int fd, struct file *file)
{
 	sock = sock_from_file(fd, &err);
 	if (sock) {
 		sock_update_netprioidx(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data);
 		sock_update_classid(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data);
 	}

	fd_install();
}

error = 0;
fdarray = malloc(fdmax);
for (i = 0; i < fdmax; i++) {
	fdarray[i] = get_unused_fd_flags(o_flags);
	if (fdarray[i] < 0) {
		error = -EBADF;
		break;
	}

	error = security_file_receive(file);
	if (error)
		break;

	error = put_user(fd_array[i], ufd);
	if (error)
		break;
}

for (i = 0; i < fdmax; i++) {
	if (error) {
		/* ignore errors */
		put_user(-EBADF, ufd); /* If this put_user() fails and the first
one succeeded userspace might now close an fd it didn't intend to. */
quoted
		put_unused_fd(fdarray[i]);
	} else {
		fd_install_received(fdarray[i], file);
	}
}
I see 4 cases of the same code pattern (get_unused_fd_flags(),
sock_update_*(), fd_install()), one of them has this difficult
put_user()
in the middle, and one of them has a potential replace_fd() instead of
the get_used/fd_install. So, to me, it makes sense to have a helper
that
encapsulates the common work that each of those call sites has to do,
which I keep cringing at all these suggestions that leave portions of
it
outside the helper.

If it's too ugly to keep the put_user() in the helper, then we can try
what was suggested earlier, and just totally rework the failure path
for
SCM_RIGHTS.

LOL. And while we were debating this, hch just went and cleaned stuff
up:

2618d530dd8b ("net/scm: cleanup scm_detach_fds")

So, um, yeah, now my proposal is actually even closer to what we
already
have there. We just add the replace_fd() logic to __scm_install_fd()
and
we're done with it.
Cool, you have a link? :)
For the record, as I didn't see this yesterday since I was already
looking at a kernel with Christoph's changes. His changes just move the
logic that was already there before into a separate helper.

So effectively nothing has changed semantically in the scm code at all.

This is why I was asking yesterday what you meant by reworking the scm
code's put_user() logic as it seems obviously correct as it is done now.

Christian
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