I mean, yes, that's certainly better, but it just seems a shame that
everyone has to do the get_unused/put_unused dance just because of how
SCM_RIGHTS does this weird put_user() in the middle.

Can anyone clarify the expected failure mode from SCM_RIGHTS? Can we
move the put_user() after instead? I think cleanup would just be:
replace_fd(fd, NULL, 0)

So:

(updated to skip sock updates on failure; thank you Christian!)

int file_receive(int fd, unsigned long flags, struct file *file)
{
	struct socket *sock;
	int ret;

	ret = security_file_receive(file);
	if (ret)
		return ret;

	/* Install the file. */
	if (fd == -1) {
		ret = get_unused_fd_flags(flags);
		if (ret >= 0)
			fd_install(ret, get_file(file));
	} else {
		ret = replace_fd(fd, file, flags);
	}

	/* Bump the sock usage counts. */
	if (ret >= 0) {
		sock = sock_from_file(addfd->file, &err);
		if (sock) {
			sock_update_netprioidx(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data);
			sock_update_classid(&sock->sk->sk_cgrp_data);
		}
	}

	return ret;
}

scm_detach_fds()
	...
	for (i=0, cmfptr=(__force int __user *)CMSG_DATA(cm); i<fdmax;
             i++, cmfptr++)
	{
		int new_fd;

		err = file_receive(-1, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC & msg->msg_flags
                                          ? O_CLOEXEC : 0, fp[i]);
		if (err < 0)
			break;
		new_fd = err;

Isn't the "right" way to do this to allocate a bunch of file descriptors,
and fill up the user buffer with them, and then install the files? This
seems to like half-install the file descriptors and then error out.

I know that's the current behaviour, but that seems like a bad idea. Do
we really want to perpetuate this half-broken state? I guess that some
userspace programs could be depending on this -- and their recovery
semantics could rely on this. I mean this is 10+ year old code.

		err = put_user(err, cmfptr);
		if (err) {
			/*
			 * If we can't notify userspace that it got the
			 * fd, we need to unwind and remove it again.
			 */
			replace_fd(new_fd, NULL, 0);
			break;
		}
	}
	...



-- 
Kees Cook