From: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf.kernel@gmail.com>
To: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@google.com>,
Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
david.laight.linux@gmail.com, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] ipv4: igmp: convert ip_mc_msfget() to sockopt_t
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:56:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aqQkqzkIuHTNS-gW@devvm7509.cco0.facebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260910-getsockopt_phase6-v1-2-e681e102d5b8@debian.org>
On 09/10, Breno Leitao wrote:
> IP_MSFILTER reads its reply through ip_mc_msfget(), reached from
> do_ip_getsockopt() and from nowhere else. Convert it, and build the
> sockopt_t at the call site for as long as the caller still carries a
> sockptr_t pair.
>
> This is a special case, where optlen might only point
> to the header, and the real structure size is inside the header.
>
> This is nasty, but, in order to avoid breaking userspace, we need to
> preserve the same mechanism, by:
>
> 1) Only applying it for userspace address, otherwise it is too risky
> 2) Assume there is room to support the new size (in userspace)
>
> The source list also moves from copy_to_sockptr_offset() to a sequential
> copy_to_iter(). IP_MSFILTER_SIZE(0) and offsetof(struct ip_msfilter,
> imsf_slist_flex) are both 16, so the bytes land where they did.
>
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-11 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-10 9:47 [PATCH net-next 0/2] net: a sockopt_t quirk for the options that write past optlen Breno Leitao
2026-09-10 9:47 ` [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: add sockopt_expand_out() Breno Leitao
2026-09-11 15:56 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-11 16:09 ` Breno Leitao
2026-09-11 18:10 ` David Laight
2026-09-11 21:17 ` Stanislav Fomichev
2026-09-12 1:19 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-10 9:47 ` [PATCH net-next 2/2] ipv4: igmp: convert ip_mc_msfget() to sockopt_t Breno Leitao
2026-09-11 15:56 ` Stanislav Fomichev [this message]
2026-09-12 1:19 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
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