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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>
To: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine•com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel•org>,
	kernel test robot <lkp@intel•com>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
	Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, oe-kbuild-all@lists•linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel•org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@kernel•org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium•org>,
	Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@amazon•com>,
	Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer•de>,
	Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian•org>,
	linux-arch@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/3] scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD
Date: Mon, 22 May 2023 13:12:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230522131252.4f9959d3@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZGtr1RwK42We5ACI@corigine.com>

On Mon, 22 May 2023 15:19:17 +0200 Simon Horman wrote:
> > TLI, that AF_UNIX can be a kernel module...
> > I'm really not excited in exposing pidfd_prepare() to non-core kernel
> > code. Would it be possible to please simply refuse SO_PEERPIDFD and
> > SCM_PIDFD if AF_UNIX is compiled as a module? I feel that this must be
> > super rare because it risks breaking even simplistic userspace.  
> 
> It occurs to me that it may be simpler to not allow AF_UNIX to be a module.
> But perhaps that breaks something for someone...

Both of the two options (disable the feature with unix=m, make unix
bool) could lead to breakage, I reckon at least the latter makes
the breakage more obvious? So not allowing AF_UNIX as a module
gets my vote as well.

A mechanism of exporting symbols for core/internal use only would 
find a lot of use in networking :(

  reply	other threads:[~2023-05-22 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-17 11:33 [PATCH net-next v5 0/3] Add SCM_PIDFD and SO_PEERPIDFD Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2023-05-17 11:33 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/3] scm: add SO_PASSPIDFD and SCM_PIDFD Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2023-05-19 11:02   ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-20 14:11   ` kernel test robot
2023-05-22  9:47     ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-22 13:19       ` Simon Horman
2023-05-22 20:12         ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2023-05-22 20:17           ` Luca Boccassi
2023-05-23  8:53             ` Simon Horman
2023-05-17 11:33 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/3] net: core: add getsockopt SO_PEERPIDFD Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2023-05-19 11:03   ` Christian Brauner
2023-05-22 17:12     ` Stanislav Fomichev
2023-05-17 11:33 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/3] selftests: net: add SCM_PIDFD / SO_PEERPIDFD test Alexander Mikhalitsyn
2023-05-19 11:04   ` Christian Brauner

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