[PATCH net-next v6 01/14] net: Block MSG_SENDPAGE_* from being passed to sendmsg() by userspace

David Howells
2023-06-07T18:20:59Z

It is necessary to allow MSG_SENDPAGE_* to be passed into ->sendmsg() to
allow sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES) to replace ->sendpage(). Unblocking them
in the network protocol, however, allows these flags to be passed in by
userspace too[1].

Fix this by marking MSG_SENDPAGE_NOPOLICY, MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST and
MSG_SENDPAGE_DECRYPTED as internal flags, which causes sendmsg() to object
if they are passed to sendmsg() by userspace. Network protocol ->sendmsg()
implementations can then allow them through.

Note that it should be possible to remove MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST once
sendpage is removed as a whole slew of pages will be passed in in one go by
splice through sendmsg, with MSG_MORE being set if it has more data waiting
in the pipe.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
cc: Boris Pismenny <borisp@nvidia.com>
cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230526181338.03a99016@kernel.org/ [1]
---
include/linux/socket.h | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/socket.h b/include/linux/socket.h
index bd1cc3238851..3fd3436bc09f 100644
--- a/include/linux/socket.h
+++ b/include/linux/socket.h
@@ -339,7 +339,9 @@ struct ucred {
#endif

/* Flags to be cleared on entry by sendmsg and sendmmsg syscalls */
-#define MSG_INTERNAL_SENDMSG_FLAGS (MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)
+#define MSG_INTERNAL_SENDMSG_FLAGS \
+ (MSG_SPLICE_PAGES | MSG_SENDPAGE_NOPOLICY | MSG_SENDPAGE_NOTLAST | \
+ MSG_SENDPAGE_DECRYPTED)

/* Setsockoptions(2) level. Thanks to BSD these must match IPPROTO_xxx */
#define SOL_IP 0