From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Laight Subject: RE: remove kernel_setsockopt and kernel_getsockopt v2 Date: Thu, 21 May 2020 10:46:33 +0000 Message-ID: References: <20200520195509.2215098-1-hch@lst.de> <138a17dfff244c089b95f129e4ea2f66@AcuMS.aculab.com> <20200521091150.GA8401@lst.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20200521091150.GA8401@lst.de> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: 'Christoph Hellwig' Cc: "David S. Miller" , Jakub Kicinski , Eric Dumazet , Alexey Kuznetsov , Hideaki YOSHIFUJI , Vlad Yasevich , Neil Horman , Marcelo Ricardo Leitner , Jon Maloy , Ying Xue , "drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-nvme@lists.infradead.org" , "target-devel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-afs@lists.infradead.org" l List-Id: ceph-devel.vger.kernel.org From: 'Christoph Hellwig' > Sent: 21 May 2020 10:12 ... > > I worried about whether getsockopt() should read the entire > > user buffer first. SCTP needs the some of it often (including a > > sockaddr_storage in one case), TCP needs it once. > > However the cost of reading a few words is small, and a big > > buffer probably needs setting to avoid leaking kernel > > memory if the structure has holes or fields that don't get set. > > Reading from userspace solves both issues. > > As mention in the thread on the last series: That was my first idea, but > we have way to many sockopts, especially in obscure protocols that just > hard code the size. The chance of breaking userspace in a way that can't > be fixed without going back to passing user pointers to get/setsockopt > is way to high to commit to such a change unfortunately. Right the syscall stubs probably can't do it. But the per-protocol ones can for the main protocols. I posted a patch for SCTP yesterday that removes 800 lines of source and 8k of object code. Even that needs a horrid bodge for one request where the length returned has to be less than the data copied! David - Registered Address Lakeside, Bramley Road, Mount Farm, Milton Keynes, MK1 1PT, UK Registration No: 1397386 (Wales)