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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 11/12] open: openat2(2) syscall
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2019 11:15:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EE7399FD-7587-407B-B628-1D92CFD6B120@amacapital.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whe90Ec_RRrMRLE0=bJOHNS9YmVwcytVxmrfK3oCuZF6A@mail.gmail.com>


> On Sep 7, 2019, at 10:45 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 10:42 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Linus, you rejected resolveat() because you wanted a *nice* API
> 
> No. I rejected resoveat() because it was a completely broken garbage
> API that couldn't do even basic stuff right (like O_CREAT).
> 
> We have a ton of flag space in the new openat2() model, we might as
> well leave the old flags alone that people are (a) used to and (b) we
> have code to support _anyway_.
> 
> Making up a new flag namespace is only going to cause us - and users -
> more work, and more confusion. For no actual advantage. It's not going
> to be "cleaner". It's just going to be worse.
> 
> 

If we keep all the flag bits in the same mask with the same values, then we’re stuck with O_RDONLY=0 and everything that implies.  We’ll have UPGRADE_READ that works differently from the missing plain-old-READ bit, and we can’t express execute-only-no-read-or-write. This sucks.

Can we at least split the permission bits into their own mask and make bits 0 and 1 illegal in the main set of flags in openat2?

There’s another thread going on right now about adding a bit along the lines of “MAYEXEC”, and one of the conclusions was that it should wait for openat2 so that it can have same semantics. If we’re stuck with O_RDONLY and friends, then MAYEXEC is doomed to being at least a bit nonsensical.

As an analogy, AMD64 introduced bigger PTEs but kept the same nonsense encoding of read and write permission. And then we got NX, and now we’re getting little holes in the encoding stolen by CET to mean new silly things.  I don’t know if you’ve been following the various rounds of patches, but it is truly horrible. The mapping from meaning to the actual bits is *shit*, and AMD64 should have made a clean break instead.

open()’s permission bits are basically the same situation. And the kernel *already* has a non-type-safe translation layer. Please, please let openat2() at least get rid of the turd in open()’s bits 0 and 1.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-07 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-04 20:19 [PATCH v12 00/12] namei: openat2(2) path resolution restrictions Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}_user helpers Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:48   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 21:00   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-09-05  7:32   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05  9:26     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05  9:43       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-05 10:57         ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-09-11 10:37           ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 13:35         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 17:01         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05  8:43   ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-05  9:50     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 10:45       ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05  9:09   ` Andreas Schwab
2019-09-05 10:13     ` [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to, from}_user helpers Gabriel Paubert
2019-09-05 11:05   ` [PATCH v12 01/12] lib: introduce copy_struct_{to,from}_user helpers Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 11:17     ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-09-05 11:29       ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 13:40     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 11:09   ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 11:27     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 11:40       ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 18:07   ` Al Viro
2019-09-05 18:23     ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 18:28       ` Al Viro
2019-09-05 18:35         ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 19:56         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 22:31           ` Al Viro
2019-09-06  7:00           ` Christian Brauner
2019-09-05 23:00     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-05 23:49       ` Al Viro
2019-09-06  0:09         ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-06  0:14         ` Al Viro
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 02/12] clone3: switch to copy_struct_from_user() Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 03/12] sched_setattr: switch to copy_struct_{to,from}_user() Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 04/12] perf_event_open: switch to copy_struct_from_user() Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 05/12] namei: obey trailing magic-link DAC permissions Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-17 21:30   ` Jann Horn
2019-09-18 13:51     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-18 15:46       ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 06/12] procfs: switch magic-link modes to be more sane Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 07/12] open: O_EMPTYPATH: procfs-less file descriptor re-opening Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 08/12] namei: O_BENEATH-style path resolution flags Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 09/12] namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like path resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 10/12] namei: aggressively check for nd->root escape on ".." resolution Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 21:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 21:35     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 21:36       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 21:48     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 22:16       ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 22:31       ` David Howells
2019-09-04 22:38         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 23:29           ` Al Viro
2019-09-04 23:44             ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 11/12] open: openat2(2) syscall Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 21:00   ` Randy Dunlap
2019-09-07 12:40   ` Jeff Layton
2019-09-07 16:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-07 17:42       ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-09-07 17:45         ` Linus Torvalds
2019-09-07 18:15           ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2019-09-10  6:35           ` Ingo Molnar
2019-09-08 16:24     ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-09-04 20:19 ` [PATCH v12 12/12] selftests: add openat2(2) selftests Aleksa Sarai

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