Thread (1 message) 1 message, 1 author, 2017-06-26

Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Isolate time_t data types for clock/timer syscalls

From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: 2017-06-26 04:13:34
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 03:35:25AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 11:45:01AM -0700, Deepa Dinamani wrote:
quoted
The series aims at isolating data conversions of time_t based structures:
struct timespec and struct itimerspec at user space boundaries.
This helps to later change the underlying types to handle y2038 changes
to these.
Nice...  A few questions:

* what about setitimer(2)?  Right now that's the only remaining user of
get_compat_itimerval(); similar for getitimer(2) and put_compat_itimerval().

* you have two callers of get_compat_itimerspec64(); one is followed by
itimerspec64_valid(), another - by its open-coded analogue.  The same
goes for get_itimerspec64(); wouldn't it be better to have both check
the validity immediately and simply fail with -EINVAL?  Matter of taste,
but...

* should __sys_recvmmsg() switch to timespec64?
While we are at it - do we need any locking for accesses of ->sk_stamp?
	* ax25, ipx, netrom, qrtr: sock_get_timestamp() done under lock_sock().
	* bluetooth: without (and case next door in the same switch is
grabbing/dropping lock_sock, so it's not held by caller either)
	* ipv4, ipv6, packet, can: without
	* irda: without, checks for NULL sock->sk for some reason (other
cases do not, so if we ever get there with NULL ->sk, we are fucked).
Incidentally, TIOCINQ in there looks fishy - what's to prevent us from
losing CPU just as skb_peek() returns, with skb getting freed by the
time we regain it and go looking at skb->len?  Don't we need at least
to hold ->lock on queue we are peeking into?
	* rose: without, and TIOCINQ there looks similar to irda one
	* x25: without, with the same odd check for NULL sock->sk
	* atm: without, apparently.  Same unprotected skb_peek() on
TIOCINQ...
	* atalk: ditto.
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