Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] add initial io_uring_cmd support for sockets

From: Breno Leitao <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:02:31 -0700

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 10:28:41AM -0400, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> Breno Leitao wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 09:28:29AM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > On 4/11/23 9:24?AM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > > Jens Axboe wrote:
> > > >> On 4/11/23 9:00?AM, Willem de Bruijn wrote:
> > > >> But that doesn't work, because sock->ops->ioctl() assumes the arg is
> > > >> memory in userspace. Or do you mean change all of the sock->ops->ioctl()
> > > >> to pass in on-stack memory (or similar) and have it work with a kernel
> > > >> address?
> > > > 
> > > > That was what I suggested indeed.
> > > > 
> > > > It's about as much code change as this patch series. But it avoids
> > > > the code duplication.
> > > 
> > > Breno, want to tackle that as a prep patch first? Should make the
> > > functional changes afterwards much more straightforward, and will allow
> > > support for anything really.
> > 
> > Absolutely. I just want to make sure that I got the proper approach that
> > we agreed here.
> > 
> > Let me explain what I understood taking TCP as an example:
> > 
> > 1) Rename tcp_ioctl() to something as _tcp_ioctl() where the 'arg'
> > argument is now just a kernel memory (located in the stack frame from the
> > callee).
> > 
> > 2) Recreate "tcp_ioctl()" that will basically allocate a 'arg' in the
> > stack and call _tcp_ioctl() passing that 'arg' argument. At the bottom of
> > this (tcp_ioctl() function) function, call `put_user(in_kernel_arg, userspace_arg)
> > 
> > 3) Repeat it for the 20 protocols that implement ioctl:
> > 
> > 	ag  "struct proto .* = {" -A 20 net/ | grep \.ioctl
> > 	net/dccp/ipv6.c 	.ioctl	= dccp_ioctl,
> > 	net/dccp/ipv4.c		.ioctl	= dccp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ieee802154/socket.c .ioctl	= dgram_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv4/udplite.c	.ioctl	= udp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv4/raw.c 		.ioctl	= raw_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv4/udp.c		.ioctl	= udp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c 	.ioctl	= tcp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv6/raw.c		.ioctl	= rawv6_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c	.ioctl	= tcp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv6/udp.c	 	.ioctl	= udp_ioctl,
> > 	net/ipv6/udplite.c	.ioctl	= udp_ioctl,
> > 	net/l2tp/l2tp_ip6.c	.ioctl	= l2tp_ioctl,
> > 	net/l2tp/l2tp_ip.c	.ioctl	= l2tp_ioctl,
> > 	net/phonet/datagram.:	.ioctl	= pn_ioctl,
> > 	net/phonet/pep.c	.ioctl	= pep_ioctl,
> > 	net/rds/af_rds.c	.ioctl	=	rds_ioctl,
> > 	net/sctp/socket.c	.ioctl  =	sctp_ioctl,
> > 	net/sctp/socket.c	.ioctl	= sctp_ioctl,
> > 	net/xdp/xsk.c		.ioctl	= sock_no_ioctl,
> > 	net/mptcp/protocol.c	.ioctl	= mptcp_ioctl,
> > 
> > Am I missing something?
> 
> The suggestion is to convert all to take kernel memory and do the
> put_cmsg in the caller of .ioctl. Rather than create a wrapper for
> each individual instance and add a separate .iouring_cmd for each.
> 
> "change all of the sock->ops->ioctl() to pass in on-stack memory
> (or similar) and have it work with a kernel address"

is it possible to do it for cases where we don't know what is the size
of the buffer?

For instance the raw_ioctl()/rawv6_ioctl() case. The "arg" argument is
used in different ways (one for input and one for output):

  1) If cmd == SIOCOUTQ or SIOCINQ, then the return value will be
  returned to userspace:
  	put_user(amount, (int __user *)arg)

  2) For default cmd, ipmr_ioctl() is called, which reads from the `arg`
  parameter:
	copy_from_user(&vr, arg, sizeof(vr)

How to handle these contradictory behaviour ahead of time (at callee
time, where the buffers will be prepared)?

Thank you!