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From: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] seccomp: Add group_leader pid to seccomp_notif
Date: Mon, 18 May 2020 07:20:38 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200518132038.GA2405879@cisco> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200518125325.l2lpixp3ch7zuiwx@wittgenstein>

On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 02:53:25PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 09:02:15AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 08:46:03AM -0600, Tycho Andersen wrote:
> > > On Sun, May 17, 2020 at 04:33:11PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > > > struct seccomp_notif2 {
> > > > 	__u32 notif_size;
> > > > 	__u64 id;
> > > > 	__u32 pid;
> > > > 	__u32 flags;
> > > > 	struct seccomp_data data;
> > > > 	__u32 data_size;
> > > > };
> > > 
> > > I guess you need to put data_size before data, otherwise old userspace
> > > with a smaller struct seccomp_data will look in the wrong place.
> > > 
> > > But yes, that'll work if you put two sizes in, which is probably
> > > reasonable since we're talking about two structs.
> > 
> > Well, no, it doesn't either. Suppose we add a new field first to
> > struct seccomp_notif2:
> > 
> > struct seccomp_notif2 {
> >     __u32 notif_size;
> >     __u64 id;
> >     __u32 pid;
> >     __u32 flags;
> >     struct seccomp_data data;
> >     __u32 data_size;
> >     __u32 new_field;
> > };
> > 
> > And next we add a new field to struct secccomp_data. When a userspace
> > compiled with just the new seccomp_notif2 field does:
> > 
> > seccomp_notif2.new_field = ...;
> > 
> > the compiler will put it in the wrong place for the kernel with the
> > new seccomp_data field too.
> > 
> > Sort of feels like we should do:
> > 
> > struct seccomp_notif2 {
> >     struct seccomp_notif *notif;
> >     struct seccomp_data *data;
> > };
> > 
> > ?
> 
> Oh yes of course, sorry that was my stupid typo. I meant:
> 
> struct seccomp_notif2 {
>     __u32 notif_size;
>     __u64 id;
>     __u32 pid;
>     __u32 flags;
>     struct seccomp_data *data;
>     __u32 data_size;
>     __u32 new_field;
> }
> 
> at which point things should just work imho.

Are you saying that data_size is an input? Because I don't think they
Just Work otherwise.

Tycho

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-18 13:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-15 23:40 [PATCH] seccomp: Add group_leader pid to seccomp_notif Sargun Dhillon
2020-05-17  7:17 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-17 10:47   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-17 11:21     ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-05-17 14:23       ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-17 14:33         ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-17 14:35           ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-17 14:46           ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-17 15:02             ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-17 21:30               ` Kees Cook
2020-05-18  8:32                 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-05-18 12:45                   ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-18 13:23                     ` Tycho Andersen
2020-05-18 14:00                       ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-18 12:05                 ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-18 21:10                 ` Kees Cook
2020-05-18 12:53               ` Christian Brauner
2020-05-18 13:20                 ` Tycho Andersen [this message]
2020-05-18 21:37                 ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-05-17 11:17   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-05-18 23:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-22 17:54   ` Sargun Dhillon

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