Re: [PATCH 8/9] fs: don't allow kernel reads and writes without iter ops

From: Kees Cook
Date: Fri Jun 26 2020 - 17:05:16 EST


On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 02:51:47PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 09:58:35AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +static void warn_unsupported(struct file *file, const char *op)
> > +{
> > + char pathname[128], *path;
> > +
> > + path = file_path(file, pathname, sizeof(pathname));
> > + if (IS_ERR(path))
> > + path = "(unknown)";
> > + pr_warn_ratelimited(
> > + "kernel %s not supported for file %s (pid: %d comm: %.20s)\n",
> > + op, path, current->pid, current->comm);
> > +}
> > +
>
> how about just:
>
> pr_warn_ratelimited(
> "kernel %s not supported for file %pD4 (pid: %d comm: %.20s)\n",
> op, file, current->pid, current->comm);
>
> also, is the pid really that interesting?

Yes, pid matters, especially when there may be many of something running
(e.g. rsync).

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Kees Cook