From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu Subject: Re: [RFC][v8][PATCH 7/10]: Check invalid clone flags Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:38:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20091013233850.GB24392@us.ibm.com> References: <20091013044925.GA28181@us.ibm.com> <20091013045234.GG28435@us.ibm.com> <4AD4C88D.7040008@librato.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AD4C88D.7040008-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org To: Oren Laadan Cc: randy.dunlap-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, arnd-r2nGTMty4D4@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Containers , Nathan Lynch , linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Louis.Rilling-aw0BnHfMbSpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , kosaki.motohiro-+CUm20s59erQFUHtdCDX3A@public.gmane.org, hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, mingo-X9Un+BFzKDI@public.gmane.org, torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org, Alexey Dobriyan , roland-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, Pavel Emelyanov List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Oren Laadan [orenl-RdfvBDnrOixBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org] wrote: | | | Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote: | > | > Subject: [RFC][v8][PATCH 7/10]: Check invalid clone flags | > | > As pointed out by Oren Laadan, we want to ensure that unused bits in the | > clone-flags remain unused and available for future. To ensure this, define | > a mask of clone-flags and check the flags in the clone() system calls. | > | > Changelog[v8]: | > - New patch in set | > | > Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu | > | > --- | > include/linux/sched.h | 10 ++++++++++ | > kernel/fork.c | 3 +++ | > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+) | > | > Index: linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h | > =================================================================== | > --- linux-2.6.orig/include/linux/sched.h 2009-10-02 18:53:55.000000000 -0700 | > +++ linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h 2009-10-02 19:58:21.000000000 -0700 | > @@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ | > #define CLONE_NEWNET 0x40000000 /* New network namespace */ | > #define CLONE_IO 0x80000000 /* Clone io context */ | > | > +#define VALID_CLONE_FLAGS (CSIGNAL | CLONE_VM | CLONE_FS | CLONE_FILES |\ | > + CLONE_SIGHAND | CLONE_PTRACE | CLONE_VFORK |\ | > + CLONE_PARENT | CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_NEWNS |\ | > + CLONE_SYSVSEM | CLONE_SETTLS |\ | > + CLONE_PARENT_SETTID | CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID |\ | > + CLONE_DETACHED | CLONE_UNTRACED |\ | > + CLONE_CHILD_SETTID | CLONE_STOPPED |\ | > + CLONE_NEWUTS | CLONE_NEWIPC | CLONE_NEWUSER |\ | > + CLONE_NEWPID | CLONE_NEWNET| CLONE_IO) | > + | > /* | > * Scheduling policies | > */ | > Index: linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c | > =================================================================== | > --- linux-2.6.orig/kernel/fork.c 2009-10-02 19:00:08.000000000 -0700 | > +++ linux-2.6/kernel/fork.c 2009-10-02 19:57:36.000000000 -0700 | > @@ -942,6 +942,9 @@ static struct task_struct *copy_process( | > struct task_struct *p; | > int cgroup_callbacks_done = 0; | > | | We can safely apply these tests to clone3(), because it is a new syscall. | | However, I don't know if applying it to clone() can break existing | application that may already be (incorrectly) using invalid flags ? Doing the check in copy_process() seems would apply to all architectures. As for breaking an existing app, there is only one unused flag, 0x00001000 (bw CLONE_SIGHAND and CLONE_PTRACE). If an application could be using that and we don't want to break it, maybe we can add following macro to the VALID_CLONE_FLAGS list ? #define CLONE_UNUSED_BIT 0x00001000