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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>,
	Matt Denton <mpdenton@google.com>,
	Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>,
	Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>,
	Robert Sesek <rsesek@google.com>,
	Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>,
	Linux Containers <containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] seccomp: notify user trap about unused filter
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 15:37:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202005271537.75548B6@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200527220532.jplypougn3qzwrms@wittgenstein>

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:05:32AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The main question also is, is there precedence where the kernel just
> closes the file descriptor for userspace behind it's back? I'm not sure
> I've heard of this before. That's not how that works afaict; it's also
> not how we do pidfds. We don't just close the fd when the task
> associated with it goes away, we notify and then userspace can close.

But there's a mapping between pidfd and task struct that is separate
from task struct itself, yes? I.e. keeping a pidfd open doesn't pin
struct task in memory forever, right?

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27 22:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27 11:19 [PATCH 1/2] seccomp: notify user trap about unused filter Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 11:19 ` [PATCH 2/2] tests: test seccomp filter notifications Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] seccomp: notify user trap about unused filter Tycho Andersen
2020-05-27 15:35   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 17:37 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-05-27 19:13   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 21:43 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-27 21:52   ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-27 22:36     ` Kees Cook
2020-05-27 22:56       ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-28  1:50         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-27 22:05   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 22:37     ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-05-27 22:45       ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-27 23:16         ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-28  1:59           ` Kees Cook
2020-05-28  4:14             ` Jann Horn
2020-05-28 14:16             ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-28 14:39               ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-28  1:49         ` Kees Cook
2020-05-28  4:04 ` Jann Horn
2020-05-28  9:57   ` Christian Brauner

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