From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SIGNED_OFF_BY,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34AE5C43331 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:59:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B54A321835 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2019 08:59:52 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org B54A321835 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ubuntu.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46QSzp59lpzDqNp for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2019 18:59:50 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=none (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=ubuntu.com (client-ip=91.189.89.112; helo=youngberry.canonical.com; envelope-from=christian.brauner@ubuntu.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=ubuntu.com Received: from youngberry.canonical.com (youngberry.canonical.com [91.189.89.112]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 46PHyw1VnxzDqcL for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2019 21:10:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: from [213.220.153.21] (helo=wittgenstein) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1i5pdd-0000xz-G0; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 11:09:17 +0000 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2019 13:09:15 +0200 From: Christian Brauner To: Aleksa Sarai Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}_user helpers Message-ID: <20190905110915.4vvhicg4ldmpi5u6@wittgenstein> References: <20190904201933.10736-1-cyphar@cyphar.com> <20190904201933.10736-2-cyphar@cyphar.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190904201933.10736-2-cyphar@cyphar.com> User-Agent: NeoMutt/20180716 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 07 Sep 2019 18:55:13 +1000 X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , Rasmus Villemoes , Alexei Starovoitov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Howells , linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, Tycho Andersen , Aleksa Sarai , Jiri Olsa , Alexander Shishkin , Ingo Molnar , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-xtensa@linux-xtensa.org, Kees Cook , Arnd Bergmann , Jann Horn , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org, Al Viro , Andy Lutomirski , Shuah Khan , Namhyung Kim , David Drysdale , Christian Brauner , "J. Bruce Fields" , linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, Chanho Min , Jeff Layton , Oleg Nesterov , Eric Biederman , linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , containers@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On Thu, Sep 05, 2019 at 06:19:22AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote: > A common pattern for syscall extensions is increasing the size of a > struct passed from userspace, such that the zero-value of the new fields > result in the old kernel behaviour (allowing for a mix of userspace and > kernel vintages to operate on one another in most cases). This is done > in both directions -- hence two helpers -- though it's more common to > have to copy user space structs into kernel space. > > Previously there was no common lib/ function that implemented > the necessary extension-checking semantics (and different syscalls > implemented them slightly differently or incompletely[1]). A future > patch replaces all of the common uses of this pattern to use the new > copy_struct_{to,from}_user() helpers. > > [1]: For instance {sched_setattr,perf_event_open,clone3}(2) all do do > similar checks to copy_struct_from_user() while rt_sigprocmask(2) > always rejects differently-sized struct arguments. > > Suggested-by: Rasmus Villemoes > Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai I would probably split this out into a separate patchset. It can very well go in before openat2(). Thoughts? Christian