From: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>,
coda@cs.cmu.edu, codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] UAPI: coda: Don't use internal kernel structs in UAPI
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:12:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c57005277ac723ebb670a1dc847a205f0529d53.camel@opteya.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <153616291029.23468.16421004714304578585.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
Le mercredi 05 septembre 2018 à 16:55 +0100, David Howells a écrit :
> The size and layout of internal kernel structures may not be relied
> upon outside of the kernel and may even change in a containerised
> environment if a container image is frozen and shifted to another
> machine.
>
> Excise these from Coda's upc_req struct.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
> cc: coda@cs.cmu.edu
> cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
> cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> ---
>
> include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h b/include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h
> index aa6623efd2dd..9c3acde393cd 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/coda_psdev.h
> @@ -10,14 +10,18 @@
>
> /* messages between coda filesystem in kernel and Venus */
> struct upc_req {
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> struct list_head uc_chain;
> +#endif
> caddr_t uc_data;
> u_short uc_flags;
> u_short uc_inSize; /* Size is at most 5000 bytes */
> u_short uc_outSize;
> u_short uc_opcode; /* copied from data to save lookup */
> int uc_unique;
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> wait_queue_head_t uc_sleep; /* process' wait queue */
> +#endif
> };
>
This structure should not have been exposed to userspace in the first
place: it's unusable by userspace as it is. It was incorrect to have it
outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ before commit 607ca46e97a1b ...
... and it's not exchanged between kernel and userspace, see
coda_psdev_write():
struct upc_req *req = NULL;
...
if (copy_from_user(req->uc_data, buf, nbytes)) {
req->uc_flags |= CODA_REQ_ABORT;
wake_up(&req->uc_sleep);
retval = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
Only data, a caddr_t, is read from userspace.
So the structure can be moved back to <linux/coda_psdev.h>.
> #define CODA_REQ_ASYNC 0x1
>
All CODA_REQ_* defines internals to kernel side and not exchanged with userspace.
Please move them back to <linux/coda_psdev.h>
Regards.
--
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-05 17:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-05 15:54 [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 05/11] UAPI: coda: Don't use internal kernel structs in UAPI David Howells
2018-09-05 16:54 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-05 17:12 ` Yann Droneaud [this message]
2018-09-05 17:28 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-05 17:24 ` David Howells
2018-09-06 7:13 ` David Howells
2018-09-06 11:52 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-06 12:16 ` Jan Harkes
2018-09-06 14:53 ` David Howells
2018-09-05 15:55 ` [PATCH 07/11] UAPI: nilfs2: Fix use of undefined byteswapping functions David Howells
2018-09-05 22:20 ` Al Viro
2018-09-05 16:55 ` [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ Greg KH
2018-09-05 17:33 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 17:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-09-06 7:12 ` Yann Droneaud
2018-09-05 19:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2018-09-05 17:50 ` David Howells
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