From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] fs: Convert struct file::f_count to refcount_long_t
Date: Thu, 2 May 2024 16:21:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202405021620.C8115568@keescook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240502231228.GN2118490@ZenIV>
On Fri, May 03, 2024 at 12:12:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, May 02, 2024 at 03:52:21PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> > As for semantics, what do you mean? Detecting dec-below-zero means we
> > catch underflow, and detected inc-from-zero means we catch resurrection
> > attempts. In both cases we avoid double-free, but we have already lost
> > to a potential dangling reference to a freed struct file. But just
> > letting f_count go bad seems dangerous.
>
> Detected inc-from-zero can also mean an RCU lookup detecting a descriptor
> in the middle of getting closed. And it's more subtle than that, actually,
> thanks to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for struct file.
But isn't that already handled by __get_file_rcu()? i.e. shouldn't it be
impossible for a simple get_file() to ever see a 0 f_count under normal
conditions?
--
Kees Cook
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-05-02 23:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-05-02 22:33 [PATCH 0/5] fs: Do not allow get_file() to resurrect 0 f_count Kees Cook
2024-05-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 1/5] " Kees Cook
2024-05-02 22:53 ` Jann Horn
2024-05-02 23:03 ` Kees Cook
2024-05-03 9:02 ` Christian Brauner
2024-05-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 2/5] drm/vmwgfx: Do not directly manipulate file->f_count Kees Cook
2024-05-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 3/5] drm/i915: " Kees Cook
2024-05-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 4/5] refcount: Introduce refcount_long_t and APIs Kees Cook
2024-05-06 8:04 ` kernel test robot
2024-05-02 22:33 ` [PATCH 5/5] fs: Convert struct file::f_count to refcount_long_t Kees Cook
2024-05-02 22:42 ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 22:52 ` Kees Cook
2024-05-02 23:12 ` Al Viro
2024-05-02 23:21 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2024-05-02 23:41 ` Al Viro
2024-05-03 0:10 ` Kees Cook
2024-05-03 0:14 ` Al Viro
2024-05-03 0:41 ` Kees Cook
2024-05-03 9:37 ` Christian Brauner
2024-05-03 10:36 ` Peter Zijlstra
2024-05-03 11:35 ` Christian Brauner
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