Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] seccomp: Introduce addfd ioctl to seccomp user notifier

[Jann Horn]

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 4:43 AM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I mean, yes, that's certainly better, but it just seems a shame that
> everyone has to do the get_unused/put_unused dance just because of how
> SCM_RIGHTS does this weird put_user() in the middle.
>
> Can anyone clarify the expected failure mode from SCM_RIGHTS? Can we
> move the put_user() after instead?

Honestly, I think trying to remove file descriptors and such after
-EFAULT is a waste of time. If userspace runs into -EFAULT, userspace
is beyond saving and can't really do much other than exit immediately.
There are a bunch of places that will change state and then throw
-EFAULT at the end if userspace supplied an invalid address, because
trying to hold locks across userspace accesses just in case userspace
supplied a bogus address is kinda silly (and often borderline
impossible).

You can actually see that even scm_detach_fds() currently just
silently swallows errors if writing some header fields fails at the
end.