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From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Sargun Dhillon <sargun@sargun.me>,
	Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>,
	Robert Sesek <rsesek@google.com>,
	Chris Palmer <palmer@google.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	"containers@lists.linux-foundation.org" 
	<containers@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
	"stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Matt Denton <mpdenton@google.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
	David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"cgroups@vger.kernel.org" <cgroups@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2020 11:38:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202006121135.F04D66DFA@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200612182816.okwylihs6u6wkgxd@wittgenstein>

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 08:28:16PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Al didn't want the PAGE_SIZE limit in there because there's nothing
> inherently wrong with copying insane amounts of memory.

Right, ok.

> (Another tangent. I've asked this on Twitter not too long ago: do we
> have stats how long copy_from_user()/copy_struct_from_user() takes with
> growing struct/memory size? I'd be really interested in this. I have a
> feeling that clone3()'s and - having had a chat with David Howells -
> openat2()'s structs will continue to grow for a while... and I'd really
> like to have some numbers on when copy_struct_from_user() becomes
> costly or how costly it becomes.)

How long it takes? It should be basically the same, the costs should be
mostly in switching memory protections, etc. I wouldn't imagine how many
bytes being copied would matter much here, given the sub-page sizes.

> > Ah yeah, I like this because of what you mention below: it's forward
> > compat too. (I'd just use the ioctl masks directly...)
> > 
> > 	switch (cmd & ~(_IOC_SIZEMASK | _IOC_DIRMASK))
> > 
> > > 		return seccomp_notify_addfd(filter, buf, _IOC_SIZE(cmd));
> > 
> > I really like that this ends up having the same construction as a
> > standard EA syscall: the size is part of the syscall arguments.
> 
> This is basically what I had proposed in my previous mail, right?

I guess I missed it! Well, then I think we're all in agreement? :)

-- 
Kees Cook

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-12 18:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-03  1:10 [PATCH v3 0/4] Add seccomp notifier ioctl that enables adding fds Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-03  1:10 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] fs, net: Standardize on file_receive helper to move fds across processes Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-04  1:24   ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-04  2:22     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-04  5:20       ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-04 12:52       ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-04 13:28         ` David Laight
2020-06-05  7:54         ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-09 19:43           ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 20:03             ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-09 20:55               ` Kees Cook
2020-06-09 21:27                 ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-10  5:27                   ` Kees Cook
2020-06-10  8:12                     ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-10  8:48                       ` David Laight
2020-06-11  3:02                         ` Kees Cook
2020-06-11  7:51                           ` David Laight
2020-06-10 17:10                       ` Kees Cook
2020-06-11  2:59                       ` Kees Cook
2020-06-11  4:41                         ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-11  9:19                         ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-11 10:39                           ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-11 23:23                             ` Kees Cook
2020-06-11 10:01                         ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-11 11:06                           ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-11 14:42                             ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-11 14:56                             ` David Laight
2020-06-11 23:49                               ` Kees Cook
2020-06-12  6:58                                 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-12  8:36                                 ` David Laight
2020-06-12 10:46                                   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-12 15:13                                     ` Kees Cook
2020-06-12 15:55                                       ` David Laight
2020-06-12 18:28                                       ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-12 18:38                                         ` Kees Cook [this message]
2020-06-12 18:42                                           ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-15  8:27                                         ` David Laight
2020-06-10  9:30                   ` Christian Brauner
2020-06-04  3:39     ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-03  1:10 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] pid: Use file_receive helper to copy FDs Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-03  1:10 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] seccomp: Introduce addfd ioctl to seccomp user notifier Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-03  1:10 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] selftests/seccomp: Test SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-03 21:25 ` [PATCH v3 0/4] Add seccomp notifier ioctl that enables adding fds Robert Sesek
2020-06-03 23:42 ` Kees Cook
2020-06-03 23:56   ` Sargun Dhillon
2020-06-04  2:44     ` Kees Cook

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