get rid of the address_space override in setsockopt v2
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Fri Jul 24 18:43:42 EDT 2020
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 08:08:42 +0200
> setsockopt is the last place in architecture-independ code that still
> uses set_fs to force the uaccess routines to operate on kernel pointers.
>
> This series adds a new sockptr_t type that can contained either a kernel
> or user pointer, and which has accessors that do the right thing, and
> then uses it for setsockopt, starting by refactoring some low-level
> helpers and moving them over to it before finally doing the main
> setsockopt method.
>
> Note that apparently the eBPF selftests do not even cover this path, so
> the series has been tested with a testing patch that always copies the
> data first and passes a kernel pointer. This is something that works for
> most common sockopts (and is something that the ePBF support relies on),
> but unfortunately in various corner cases we either don't use the passed
> in length, or in one case actually copy data back from setsockopt, or in
> case of bpfilter straight out do not work with kernel pointers at all.
>
> Against net-next/master.
>
> Changes since v1:
> - check that users don't pass in kernel addresses
> - more bpfilter cleanups
> - cosmetic mptcp tweak
Series applied to net-next, I'm build testing and will push this out when
that is done.
Thanks.
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