From: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>,
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors
Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 21:43:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181118204317.seaztq7fqmysucns@brauner.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <608F2959-800D-46EE-A7CD-8C972ACD2F02@amacapital.net>
On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 01:28:41PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
>
> > On Nov 18, 2018, at 12:44 PM, Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com> wrote:
> >
>
> >
> > That is, I'm proposing an API that looks like this:
> >
> > int process_kill(int procfs_dfd, int signo, const union sigval value)
> >
> > If, later, process_kill were to *also* accept process-capability FDs,
> > nothing would break.
>
> Except that this makes it ambiguous to the caller as to whether their current creds are considered. So it would need to be a different syscall or at least a flag. Otherwise a lot of those nice theoretical properties go away.
I can add a flag argument
int process_signal(int procfs_dfd, int signo, siginfo_t *info, int flags)
The way I see it process_signal() should be equivalent to kill(pid, signal) for now.
That is siginfo_t is cleared and set to:
info.si_signo = sig;
info.si_errno = 0;
info.si_code = SI_USER;
info.si_pid = task_tgid_vnr(current);
info.si_uid = from_kuid_munged(current_user_ns(), current_uid());
>
> > Yes, that's what I have in mind. A siginfo_t is small enough that we
> > could just store it as a blob allocated off the procfs inode or
> > something like that without bothering with a shmfs file. You'd be able
> > to read(2) the exit status as many times as you wanted.
>
> I think that, if the syscall in question is read(2), then it should work *once* per struct file. Otherwise running cat on the file would behave very oddly.
>
> Read and poll have the same problem as write: we can’t check caps in read or poll either.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-18 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-18 11:17 [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors Christian Brauner
2018-11-18 13:59 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 15:38 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 15:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 16:17 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 16:29 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 17:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 17:17 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 17:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-18 17:45 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 17:56 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 16:33 ` Randy Dunlap
2018-11-18 16:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 17:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 17:24 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 17:42 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 17:51 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 18:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 18:43 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 19:05 ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-18 19:44 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 20:15 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-18 20:21 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 20:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 20:32 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 1:43 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 20:43 ` Christian Brauner [this message]
2018-11-18 20:54 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 21:23 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-18 21:30 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 0:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 0:40 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 0:09 ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 0:53 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 1:16 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 16:13 ` Dmitry Safonov
2018-11-19 16:26 ` [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors (Larger pids) Eric W. Biederman
2018-11-19 16:27 ` [PATCH] proc: allow killing processes via file descriptors Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 20:21 ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 2:47 ` Al Viro
2018-11-19 3:01 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 17:41 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-18 17:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 18:07 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 18:15 ` Andy Lutomirski
2018-11-18 18:31 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 19:24 ` Christian Brauner
2018-11-19 0:08 ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-19 1:14 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-18 16:03 ` Daniel Colascione
2018-11-19 10:56 ` kbuild test robot
2018-11-19 14:15 ` David Laight
2018-11-19 15:49 ` Dave Martin
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