Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.kernel > #1236654

Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA

Show all headers | View raw

On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Tycho Andersen
<tycho.andersen@canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:47:05AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Tycho Andersen
>> <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> wrote:
>> > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:25:41AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Tycho Andersen
>> >> <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> wrote:
>> >> > This command allows comparing the underling private data of two fds. This
>> >> > is useful e.g. to find out if a seccomp filter is inherited, since struct
>> >> > seccomp_filter are unique across tasks and are the private_data seccomp
>> >> > fds.
>> >>
>> >> This is very implementation-specific and may have nasty ABI
>> >> consequences far outside seccomp.  Let's do something specific to
>> >> seccomp and/or eBPF.
>> >
>> > We could change the name to a less generic KCMP_SECCOMP_FD or
>> > something, but without some sort of GUID on each struct
>> > seccomp_filter, the implementation would be effectively the same as it
>> > is today. Is that enough, or do we need a GUID?
>> >
>>
>> I don't care about the GUID.  I think we should name it
>> KCMP_SECCOMP_FD and make it only work on seccomp fds.
>
> Ok, I can do that.
>
>> Alternatively, we could figure out why KCMP_FILE doesn't do the trick
>> and consider fixing it.  IMO it's really too bad that struct file is
>> so heavyweight that we can't really just embed one in all kinds of
>> structures.
>
> The problem is that KCMP_FILE compares the file objects themselves,
> instead of the underlying data. If I ask for a seccomp fd for filter 0
> twice, I'll have two different file objects and they won't be equal. I
> suppose we could add some special logic inside KCMP_FILE to compare
> the underlying data in special cases (seccomp, ebpf, others?), but it
> seems cleaner to have a separate command as you described above.
>

What I meant was that maybe we could get the two requests to actually
produce the same struct file.  But that could get very messy
memory-wise.

--Andy
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Back to linux.kernel | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

checkpoint/restore of seccomp filters v3 Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 3/5] seccomp: add a ptrace command to get seccomp filter fds Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 20:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 21:00 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 23:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 23:50 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-10-01 00:20 +0200
              Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-10-01 18:50 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 21:00 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 4/5] kcmp: add KCMP_FILE_PRIVATE_DATA Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:50 +0200
  [PATCH v3 5/5] bpf: save the program the user actually supplied Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 1/5] seccomp: save the original filter Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
  [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 20:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD Tycho Andersen <tycho.andersen@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 20:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-30 20:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] seccomp: add the concept of a seccomp filter FD kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2015-09-30 20:30 +0200

csiph-web