[RFC PATCH 3/4] net: pass a kernel pointer via 'optlen_t' to proto[ops].getsockopt() hooks
Stefan Metzmacher
metze at samba.org
Mon Mar 31 13:10:55 PDT 2025
The motivation for this is to remove the SOL_SOCKET limitation
from io_uring_cmd_getsockopt().
The reason for this limitation is that io_uring_cmd_getsockopt()
passes a kernel pointer.
The first idea would be to change the optval and optlen arguments
to the protocol specific hooks also to sockptr_t, as that
is already used for setsockopt() and also by do_sock_getsockopt()
sk_getsockopt() and BPF_CGROUP_RUN_PROG_GETSOCKOPT().
But as Linus don't like 'sockptr_t' I used a different approach.
Instead of passing the optlen as user or kernel pointer,
we only ever pass a kernel pointer and do the
translation from/to userspace in do_sock_getsockopt().
The simple solution would be to just remove the
'__user' from the int *optlen argument, but it
seems the compiler doesn't complain about
'__user' vs. without it, so instead I used
a helper struct in order to make sure everything
compiles with a typesafe change.
That together with get_optlen() and put_optlen() helper
macros make it relatively easy to review and check the
behaviour is most likely unchanged.
In order to avoid uapi changes regarding different error
code orders regarding -EFAULT, the real -EFAULT handling
is deferred to get_optlen() and put_optlen().
This allows io_uring_cmd_getsockopt() to remove the
SOL_SOCKET limitation.
Removing 'sockptr_t optlen' from existing code
is for patch for another day.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/86b1dce5-4bb4-4a0b-9cff-e72f488bf57d@samba.org/T/#t
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Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze at samba.org>
---
include/linux/sockptr.h | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
net/socket.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sockptr.h b/include/linux/sockptr.h
index 1baf66f26f4f..06ec7fd73028 100644
--- a/include/linux/sockptr.h
+++ b/include/linux/sockptr.h
@@ -170,20 +170,25 @@ static inline int check_zeroed_sockptr(sockptr_t src, size_t offset,
}
typedef struct {
- int __user *up;
+ int *kp;
} optlen_t;
#define __check_optlen_t(__optlen) \
({ \
optlen_t *__ptr __maybe_unused = &__optlen; \
- BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*((__ptr)->up)) != sizeof(int)); \
+ BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(*((__ptr)->kp)) != sizeof(int)); \
})
#define get_optlen(__val, __optlen) \
({ \
long __err; \
__check_optlen_t(__optlen); \
- __err = get_user(__val, __optlen.up); \
+ if ((__optlen).kp != NULL) { \
+ (__val) = *((__optlen).kp); \
+ __err = 0; \
+ } else { \
+ __err = -EFAULT; \
+ } \
__err; \
})
@@ -191,13 +196,18 @@ typedef struct {
({ \
long __err; \
__check_optlen_t(__optlen); \
- __err = put_user(__val, __optlen.up); \
+ if ((__optlen).kp != NULL) { \
+ *((__optlen).kp) = (__val); \
+ __err = 0; \
+ } else { \
+ __err = -EFAULT; \
+ } \
__err; \
})
static inline sockptr_t OPTLEN_SOCKPTR(optlen_t optlen)
{
- return (sockptr_t) { .user = optlen.up, };
+ return (sockptr_t) { .kernel = optlen.kp, .is_kernel = true };
}
#endif /* _LINUX_SOCKPTR_H */
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index fa2de12c10e6..81e5c9767bbc 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -2350,15 +2350,42 @@ int do_sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, bool compat, int level,
} else if (unlikely(!ops->getsockopt)) {
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
} else {
- optlen_t _optlen = { .up = NULL, };
+ optlen_t _optlen = { .kp = NULL, };
+ int koptlen;
if (WARN_ONCE(optval.is_kernel,
"Invalid argument type"))
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
- _optlen.up = optlen.user;
+ if (optlen.is_kernel) {
+ _optlen.kp = optlen.kernel;
+ } else if (optlen.user != NULL) {
+ /*
+ * If optlen.user is NULL,
+ * we pass _optlen.kp = NULL
+ * in order to avoid breaking
+ * any uapi for getsockopt()
+ * implementations that ignore
+ * the optlen pointer completely
+ * or do any level and optname
+ * checking before hitting a
+ * potential -EFAULT condition.
+ *
+ * Also when optlen.user is not NULL,
+ * but copy_from_sockptr() causes -EFAULT,
+ * we'll pass optlen.kp = NULL in order
+ * to defer a possible -EFAULT return
+ * to the caller to get_optlen() and put_optlen().
+ */
+ if (copy_from_sockptr(&koptlen, optlen, sizeof(koptlen)) == 0)
+ _optlen.kp = &koptlen;
+ }
err = ops->getsockopt(sock, level, optname, optval.user,
_optlen);
+ if (err != -EFAULT && _optlen.kp == &koptlen) {
+ if (copy_to_sockptr(optlen, &koptlen, sizeof(koptlen)))
+ return -EFAULT;
+ }
}
if (!compat)
--
2.34.1
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