From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>,
Lokesh Gidra <lokeshgidra@google.com>,
Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>, Nosh Minwalla <nosh@google.com>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] Add a UFFD_SECURE flag to the userfaultfd API.
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 19:27:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191023232708.GA433@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB0634BD-AAF4-4805-8178-30FFA94B7B58@amacapital.net>
On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 04:01:53PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> Delivering events through read() is just fine. The problem is when
> delivering an event does more than just returning bytes. As far as
> I’ve noticed, uffd’s read() just returns bytes as long as FORK is
> disabled.
Yes, fork is the only case where read doesn't return bytes.
Moving only the fd creation to a separate syscall would then avoid
involuntary creation of the fd.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-23 23:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-12 19:15 [PATCH 0/7] Harden userfaultfd Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 1/7] Add a new flags-accepting interface for anonymous inodes Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 4:26 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 4:26 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 4:26 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 15:38 ` Jann Horn
2019-10-14 18:15 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 18:30 ` Jann Horn
2019-10-15 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 2/7] Add a concept of a "secure" anonymous file Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-14 3:01 ` kbuild test robot
2019-10-15 8:08 ` Christoph Hellwig
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 3/7] Add a UFFD_SECURE flag to the userfaultfd API Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:10 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 0:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-13 1:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 1:38 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-14 16:04 ` Jann Horn
2019-10-23 19:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 19:21 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 21:16 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 21:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 22:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 23:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 23:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2019-10-23 20:05 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-24 0:23 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-23 20:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-10-24 9:02 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-24 15:10 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2019-10-25 20:12 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-22 21:27 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-23 4:11 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-23 7:29 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2019-10-23 12:43 ` Mike Rapoport
2019-10-23 17:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:15 ` [PATCH 4/7] Teach SELinux about a new userfaultfd class Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:08 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-13 0:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-10-13 0:46 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 5/7] Let userfaultfd opt out of handling kernel-mode faults Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 6/7] Allow users to require UFFD_SECURE Daniel Colascione
2019-10-12 23:12 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-10-12 19:16 ` [PATCH 7/7] Add a new sysctl for limiting userfaultfd to user mode faults Daniel Colascione
2019-10-16 0:02 ` [PATCH 0/7] Harden userfaultfd James Morris
2019-11-15 15:09 ` Stephen Smalley
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