Re: [RFC c/r 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v7

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> writes:

> +/*
> + * We don't expose real in-memory order of objects for security
> + * reasons, still the comparision results should be suitable for
> + * sorting. Thus, we obfuscate kernel pointers values (using random
> + * cookies obtaned at early boot stage) and compare the production
> + * instead.
> + */
> +static unsigned long cookies[KCMP_TYPES][2] __read_mostly;
> +
> +static long kptr_obfuscate(long v, int type)
> +{
> +	return (v ^ cookies[type][0]) * cookies[type][1];
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * 0 - equal
> + * 1 - less than
> + * 2 - greater than
> + * 3 - not equal but ordering unavailable (reserved for future)
> + */
> +static int kcmp_ptr(long v1, long v2, enum kcmp_type type)
> +{

Can you make the prototype:
static int kcmp_ptr(void *v1, void *v2, enum kcmp_type type)

So the caller does not need to have casts?

> +	long ret;
> +
> +	ret = kptr_obfuscate(v1, type) - kptr_obfuscate(v2, type);
> +
> +	return (ret < 0) | ((ret > 0) << 1);
> +}
> +
> +/* The caller must have pinned the task */
> +static struct file *
> +get_file_raw_ptr(struct task_struct *task, unsigned int idx)
> +{
> +	struct fdtable *fdt;
> +	struct file *file;
> +
> +	spin_lock(&task->files->file_lock);
> +	fdt = files_fdtable(task->files);
> +	if (idx < fdt->max_fds)
> +		file = fdt->fd[idx];
> +	else
> +		file = NULL;
> +	spin_unlock(&task->files->file_lock);

I believe I commented on this earlier but it looks like it got lost in
the noise.

file == NULL != file == NULL.

When you can't lookup the file kcmp should return -EBADF.

Eric