From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tycho Andersen Subject: [PATCH v9 2/4] seccomp: switch system call argument type to void * Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2018 20:28:25 -0700 Message-ID: <20181203032827.27978-3-tycho@tycho.ws> References: <20181203032827.27978-1-tycho@tycho.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20181203032827.27978-1-tycho@tycho.ws> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Kees Cook Cc: Andy Lutomirski , Oleg Nesterov , "Eric W . Biederman" , "Serge E . Hallyn" , Christian Brauner , Tyler Hicks , Akihiro Suda , Aleksa Sarai , Jann Horn , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Tycho Andersen List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org The const qualifier causes problems for any code that wants to write to the third argument of the seccomp syscall, as we will do in a future patch in this series. The third argument to the seccomp syscall is documented as void *, so rather than just dropping the const, let's switch everything to use void * as well. I believe this is safe because of 1. the documentation above, 2. there's no real type information exported about syscalls anywhere besides the man pages. Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen CC: Kees Cook CC: Andy Lutomirski CC: Oleg Nesterov CC: Eric W. Biederman CC: "Serge E. Hallyn" CC: Christian Brauner CC: Tyler Hicks CC: Akihiro Suda --- include/linux/seccomp.h | 2 +- kernel/seccomp.c | 8 ++++---- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/seccomp.h b/include/linux/seccomp.h index e5320f6c8654..b5103c019cf4 100644 --- a/include/linux/seccomp.h +++ b/include/linux/seccomp.h @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ extern void secure_computing_strict(int this_syscall); #endif extern long prctl_get_seccomp(void); -extern long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long, char __user *); +extern long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long, void __user *); static inline int seccomp_mode(struct seccomp *s) { diff --git a/kernel/seccomp.c b/kernel/seccomp.c index 96afc32e041d..393e029f778a 100644 --- a/kernel/seccomp.c +++ b/kernel/seccomp.c @@ -924,7 +924,7 @@ static long seccomp_get_action_avail(const char __user *uaction) /* Common entry point for both prctl and syscall. */ static long do_seccomp(unsigned int op, unsigned int flags, - const char __user *uargs) + void __user *uargs) { switch (op) { case SECCOMP_SET_MODE_STRICT: @@ -944,7 +944,7 @@ static long do_seccomp(unsigned int op, unsigned int flags, } SYSCALL_DEFINE3(seccomp, unsigned int, op, unsigned int, flags, - const char __user *, uargs) + void __user *, uargs) { return do_seccomp(op, flags, uargs); } @@ -956,10 +956,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(seccomp, unsigned int, op, unsigned int, flags, * * Returns 0 on success or -EINVAL on failure. */ -long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long seccomp_mode, char __user *filter) +long prctl_set_seccomp(unsigned long seccomp_mode, void __user *filter) { unsigned int op; - char __user *uargs; + void __user *uargs; switch (seccomp_mode) { case SECCOMP_MODE_STRICT: -- 2.19.1