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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	luto@kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, willy@infradead.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 1/9] kernel: Support TIF_SYSCALL_INTERCEPT flag
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 13:30:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202009251327.587D111@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k0whsuh1.fsf@collabora.com>

On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 12:15:54PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Sep 23 2020 at 13:49, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 04:18:26PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> >>> Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> writes:
> >>> Yes, we can, and I'm happy to follow up with that as part of my TIF
> >>> clean up work, but can we not block the current patchset to be merged
> >>> waiting for that, as this already grew a lot from the original feature
> >>> submission?
> >>
> >> In that case, I'd say just add the new TIF flag. The consolidation can
> >> come later.
> >
> > No. This is exactly the wrong order. Cleanup and consolidation have
> > precedence over features. I'm tired of 'we'll do that later' songs,
> > simply because in the very end I'm going to be the idiot who mops up the
> > resulting mess.
> >
> 
> No problem.  I will follow up with a patchset consolidating those flags
> into this syscall_intercept interface I proposed.  I assume there is no
> immediate concerns with the consolidation approach itself.

I think the only issue is just finding a clean way to set/unset the
flags safely/quickly (a lock seems too heavy to me).

Should thread_info hold an entire u32 for all intercept flags (then the
TIF_WORK tests is just a zero-test of the intercept u32 word)? Or should
there be a TIF_INTERCEPT and a totally separate u32 (e.g. in
task_struct) indicating which intercepts? (And if they're separate, how
do we atomically set/unset)

i.e.:

atomic_start
	toggle a per-intercept bit
	set TIF_INTERCEPT = !!(intercept word)
atomic_end

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 20:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-04 20:31 [PATCH v6 0/9] Syscall User Dispatch Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] kernel: Support TIF_SYSCALL_INTERCEPT flag Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-07 10:16   ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-08  4:59     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-22 19:42       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-23 20:28         ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-11  9:32   ` peterz
2020-09-11 20:08     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-24 11:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-09-22 19:44   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-23 20:18     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-23 20:49       ` Kees Cook
2020-09-25  8:00         ` Thomas Gleixner
2020-09-25 16:15           ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-25 20:30             ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] kernel: entry: Support TIF_SYSCAL_INTERCEPT on common entry code Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-07 10:16   ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-11  9:35   ` peterz
2020-09-11 20:11     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] x86: vdso: Expose sigreturn address on vdso to the kernel Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-22 19:40   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] signal: Expose SYS_USER_DISPATCH si_code type Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-07 10:15   ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-22 19:39   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] kernel: Implement selective syscall userspace redirection Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-05 11:24   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-09-11  9:44   ` peterz
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] kernel: entry: Support Syscall User Dispatch for common syscall entry Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-07 10:15   ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-07 14:15     ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-07 14:25       ` Christian Brauner
2020-09-07 20:20         ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-09-11  9:46   ` peterz
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] x86: Enable Syscall User Dispatch Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-22 19:37   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-23 20:23     ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] selftests: Add kselftest for syscall user dispatch Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-22 19:35   ` Kees Cook
2020-09-04 20:31 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] doc: Document Syscall User Dispatch Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-09-22 19:35   ` Kees Cook

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