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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>,
	Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Matt Denton <mpdenton@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>,
	Robert Sesek <rsesek@google.com>,
	Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>,
	Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 08/11] selftests/seccomp: Make kcmp() less required
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2020 09:03:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202006160902.E331FF1917@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200616145725.GJ2893648@cisco>

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 08:57:25AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 08:25:21PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > The seccomp tests are a bit noisy without CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE (due
> > to missing the kcmp() syscall). The seccomp tests are more accurate with
> > kcmp(), but it's not strictly required. Refactor the tests to use
> > alternatives (comparing fd numbers), and provide a central test for
> > kcmp() so there is a single XFAIL instead of many. Continue to produce
> > warnings for the other tests, though.
> > 
> > Additionally adds some more bad flag EINVAL tests to the addfd selftest.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
> 
> This looks fine, but I wonder if this is enough motivation for taking
> kcmp() out of CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE guards?

Do you mean in the kernel? I'd rather not -- it's a relatively powerful
primitive. Maybe if there were other users needing it, but there doesn't
seem to have been much demand.

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-16 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-16  3:25 [PATCH v4 00/11] Add seccomp notifier ioctl that enables adding fds Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 01/11] net/scm: Regularize compat handling of scm_detach_fds() Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 02/11] fs: Move __scm_install_fd() to __fd_install_received() Kees Cook
2020-06-16  5:29   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-16  5:48     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-17 15:25   ` David Laight
2020-06-17 18:40     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-18  8:56   ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-18 20:05     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 03/11] fs: Add fd_install_received() wrapper for __fd_install_received() Kees Cook
2020-06-17 15:35   ` David Laight
2020-06-17 19:58     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-18  8:19       ` David Laight
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 04/11] pidfd: Replace open-coded partial fd_install_received() Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 05/11] fs: Expand __fd_install_received() to accept fd Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 06/11] seccomp: Introduce addfd ioctl to seccomp user notifier Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 07/11] selftests/seccomp: Test SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD Kees Cook
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 08/11] selftests/seccomp: Make kcmp() less required Kees Cook
2020-06-16 14:57   ` Tycho Andersen
2020-06-16 16:03     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 09/11] selftests/seccomp: Rename user_trap_syscall() to user_notif_syscall() Kees Cook
2020-06-16 14:56   ` Tycho Andersen
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 10/11] seccomp: Switch addfd to Extensible Argument ioctl Kees Cook
2020-06-16 14:55   ` Tycho Andersen
2020-06-16 16:05     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-16 16:18       ` Tycho Andersen
2020-06-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 11/11] seccomp: Fix ioctl number for SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ID_VALID Kees Cook
2020-06-18 22:16 ` [PATCH v4 00/11] Add seccomp notifier ioctl that enables adding fds Sargun Dhillon

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