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From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
To: Alban Crequy <alban@kinvolk.io>
Cc: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD race condition
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 07:41:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201201124105.GB103125@cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201130232009.GC38675@cisco>

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 06:20:09PM -0500, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> Idea 1 sounds best to me, but maybe that's because it's the way I
> originally did the fd support that never landed :)
> 
> But here's an Idea 4: we add a way to remotely close an fd (I don't
> see that the current infra can do this, but perhaps I didn't look hard
> enough), and then when you get ENOENT you have to close the fd. Of
> course, this can't be via seccomp, so maybe it's even more racy.

Or better yet: what if the kernel closed everything it had added via
ADDFD if it didn't get a valid response from the supervisor? Then
everyone gets this bug fixed for free.

Tycho
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-01 12:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-26 13:09 SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD race condition Alban Crequy
2020-11-30 23:20 ` Tycho Andersen
2020-12-01  4:08   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-01 12:41   ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2020-12-01 13:08     ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-12-01 13:13       ` Tycho Andersen
2020-12-01 21:27         ` Kees Cook

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