Re: [PATCH 1/9] kernel: add a PF_FORCE_COMPAT flag

Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-22T07:24:02Z

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 8:32 AM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/09/2020 03:58, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:24 PM Pavel Begunkov <asml.silence@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I may be looking at a different kernel than you, but aren't you
> > preventing creating an io_uring regardless of whether SQPOLL is
> > requested?
>
> I diffed a not-saved file on a sleepy head, thanks for noticing.
> As you said, there should be an SQPOLL check.
>
> ...
> if (ctx->compat && (p->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL))
> goto err;

Wouldn't that mean that now 32-bit containers behave differently
between compat and native execution?

I think if you want to prevent 32-bit applications from using SQPOLL,
it needs to be done the same way on both to be consistent:

if ((!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_64BIT) || ctx->compat) &&
(p->flags & IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL))
goto err;

I don't really see how taking away SQPOLL from 32-bit tasks is
any better than just preventing access to the known-broken files
as Al suggested, or adding the hack to make it work as in
Christoph's original patch.

Can we expect all existing and future user space to have a sane
fallback when IORING_SETUP_SQPOLL fails?

Arnd