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Date:   Wed, 17 Apr 2019 22:13:04 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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        Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@mail.ru>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 02/26] compat_ioctl: move simple ppp command handling
 into driver
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On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 10:19:40PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
> index c708400fff4a..04252c3492ee 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/ppp_generic.c
> @@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ppp_device_fops = {
>  	.write		= ppp_write,
>  	.poll		= ppp_poll,
>  	.unlocked_ioctl	= ppp_ioctl,
> +	.compat_ioctl	= ppp_ioctl,

Oh?  What happens on e.g. s390 with something like PPPIOCNEWUNIT?
Current kernel:
	* no ->compat_ioctl()
	* ->unlock_ioctl() is present
	* found by compat_ioctl_check_table()
	* pass (unsigned long)compat_ptr(arg) to do_vfs_ioctl()
	* pass that to ppp_ioctl()
	* pass that to ppp_unattached_ioctl()
	* fetch int from (int __user *)compat_ptr(arg)

With your patch:
	* call ppp_ioctl()
	* pass arg to ppp_unattached_ioctl()
	* fetch int from (int __user *)arg

AFAICS, that's broken...  Looking at that ppp_ioctl(),
pointer to arch-independent type or ignored:
	PPPIOCNEWUNIT PPPIOCATTACH PPPIOCATTCHAN PPPIOCSMRU PPPIOCSFLAGS
	PPPIOCGFLAGS PPPIOCGUNIT PPPIOCSDEBUG PPPIOCSMAXCID PPPIOCCONNECT
	PPPIOCGDEBUG PPPIOCSMAXCID PPPIOCSMRRU
	PPPIOCDETACH PPPIOCDISCONN
	PPPIOCGASYNCMAP PPPIOCSASYNCMAP PPPIOCGRASYNCMAP PPPIOCSRASYNCMAP
	PPPIOCGXASYNCMAP PPPIOCSXASYNCMAP
	PPPIOCGNPMODE PPPIOCSNPMODE
pointer to struct ppp_option_data (with further pointer-chasing in it):
	PPPIOCSCOMPRESS
pointer to struct ppp_idle:
	PPPIOCGIDLE
pointer to struct sock_filter (with hidden pointer-chasing, AFAICS):
	PPPIOCSPASS PPPIOCSACTIVE

Pretty much all of them take pointers.  What's more, reaction to
unknown is -ENOTTY, not -ENOIOCTLCM, so that patch will have
prevent the translated ones from reaching do_ioctl_trans()

What am I missing here?  Why not simply do

compat_ppp_ioctl()
{
	PPPIOCSCOMPRESS32 => deal with it
	PPPIOCGIDLE32 => deal with it
	PPPIOCSPASS32 / PPPIOCSACTIVE32 => deal with it
	default: pass compat_ptr(arg) to ppp_ioctl() and be done with that
}

with BPF-related bits (both compat and native) taken to e.g. net/core/bpf-ppp.c,
picked by both generic and isdn?  IDGI...