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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-29 18:16:09 -1000 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-05-29 18:16:09 -1000 |
commit | 9a76c0ee3a759c1aaeedaaac9d3831397f264237 (patch) | |
tree | 28f2187b84c22f2388c05e568f6b5672d4a39f5a /Documentation | |
parent | 9d68fe84f8c52942c30febfec289c6219fe4f285 (diff) | |
parent | ddc473916955f7710d1eb17c1273d91c8622a9fe (diff) |
Merge tag 'seccomp-fixes-v5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull seccomp fixes from Kees Cook:
"This fixes a hard-to-hit race condition in the addfd user_notif
feature of seccomp, visible since v5.9.
And a small documentation fix"
* tag 'seccomp-fixes-v5.13-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
seccomp: Refactor notification handler to prepare for new semantics
Documentation: seccomp: Fix user notification documentation
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst | 16 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst index bd9165241b6c..6efb41cc8072 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/seccomp_filter.rst @@ -250,14 +250,14 @@ Users can read via ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_RECV)`` (or ``poll()``) on a seccomp notification fd to receive a ``struct seccomp_notif``, which contains five members: the input length of the structure, a unique-per-filter ``id``, the ``pid`` of the task which triggered this request (which may be 0 if the -task is in a pid ns not visible from the listener's pid namespace), a ``flags`` -member which for now only has ``SECCOMP_NOTIF_FLAG_SIGNALED``, representing -whether or not the notification is a result of a non-fatal signal, and the -``data`` passed to seccomp. Userspace can then make a decision based on this -information about what to do, and ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND)`` a -response, indicating what should be returned to userspace. The ``id`` member of -``struct seccomp_notif_resp`` should be the same ``id`` as in ``struct -seccomp_notif``. +task is in a pid ns not visible from the listener's pid namespace). The +notification also contains the ``data`` passed to seccomp, and a filters flag. +The structure should be zeroed out prior to calling the ioctl. + +Userspace can then make a decision based on this information about what to do, +and ``ioctl(SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND)`` a response, indicating what should be +returned to userspace. The ``id`` member of ``struct seccomp_notif_resp`` should +be the same ``id`` as in ``struct seccomp_notif``. It is worth noting that ``struct seccomp_data`` contains the values of register arguments to the syscall, but does not contain pointers to memory. The task's |