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| author | Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com> | 2014-01-05 21:36:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2014-01-12 10:16:59 +0100 |
| commit | a21b0b354d4ac39be691f51c53562e2c24443d9e (patch) | |
| tree | 2625e7436b90c91966c5797f2fae3a980694d8c7 /include/uapi | |
| parent | f228c5b882602697a1adb50d61ff688b0df1eced (diff) | |
| download | linux-a21b0b354d4ac39be691f51c53562e2c24443d9e.tar.bz2 | |
perf: Introduce a flag to enable close-on-exec in perf_event_open()
Unlike recent modern userspace API such as:
epoll_create1 (EPOLL_CLOEXEC), eventfd (EFD_CLOEXEC),
fanotify_init (FAN_CLOEXEC), inotify_init1 (IN_CLOEXEC),
signalfd (SFD_CLOEXEC), timerfd_create (TFD_CLOEXEC),
or the venerable general purpose open (O_CLOEXEC),
perf_event_open() syscall lack a flag to atomically set FD_CLOEXEC
(eg. close-on-exec) flag on file descriptor it returns to userspace.
The present patch adds a PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC flag to allow
perf_event_open() syscall to atomically set close-on-exec.
Having this flag will enable userspace to remove the file descriptor
from the list of file descriptors being inherited across exec,
without the need to call fcntl(fd, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) and the
associated race condition between the current thread and another
thread calling fork(2) then execve(2).
Links:
- Secure File Descriptor Handling (Ulrich Drepper, 2008)
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/20407.html
- Excuse me son, but your code is leaking !!! (Dan Walsh, March 2012)
http://danwalsh.livejournal.com/53603.html
- Notes in DMA buffer sharing: leak and security hole
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/dma-buf-sharing.txt?id=v3.13-rc3#n428
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8c03f54e1598b1727c19706f3af03f98685d9fe6.1388952061.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index e1802d6153ae..ca018b4085c6 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -724,6 +724,7 @@ enum perf_callchain_context { #define PERF_FLAG_FD_NO_GROUP (1U << 0) #define PERF_FLAG_FD_OUTPUT (1U << 1) #define PERF_FLAG_PID_CGROUP (1U << 2) /* pid=cgroup id, per-cpu mode only */ +#define PERF_FLAG_FD_CLOEXEC (1U << 3) /* O_CLOEXEC */ union perf_mem_data_src { __u64 val; |