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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 21:01:12 -0600
From: Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To: Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@...hat.com>
Cc: Kernel Hardening <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>,
 Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>,
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, io-uring@...r.kernel.org,
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jannh@...gle.com>,
 Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>, Aleksa Sarai <asarai@...e.de>,
 Sargun Dhillon <sargun@...gun.me>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] io_uring: add restrictions to support untrusted
 applications and guests

On 8/27/20 8:58 AM, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> v6:
>  - moved restriction checks in a function [Jens]
>  - changed ret value handling in io_register_restrictions() [Jens]
> 
> v5: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200827134044.82821-1-sgarzare@redhat.com/
> v4: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200813153254.93731-1-sgarzare@redhat.com/
> v3: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200728160101.48554-1-sgarzare@redhat.com/
> RFC v2: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200716124833.93667-1-sgarzare@redhat.com
> RFC v1: https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20200710141945.129329-1-sgarzare@redhat.com
> 
> Following the proposal that I send about restrictions [1], I wrote this series
> to add restrictions in io_uring.
> 
> I also wrote helpers in liburing and a test case (test/register-restrictions.c)
> available in this repository:
> https://github.com/stefano-garzarella/liburing (branch: io_uring_restrictions)
> 
> Just to recap the proposal, the idea is to add some restrictions to the
> operations (sqe opcode and flags, register opcode) to safely allow untrusted
> applications or guests to use io_uring queues.
> 
> The first patch changes io_uring_register(2) opcodes into an enumeration to
> keep track of the last opcode available.
> 
> The second patch adds IOURING_REGISTER_RESTRICTIONS opcode and the code to
> handle restrictions.
> 
> The third patch adds IORING_SETUP_R_DISABLED flag to start the rings disabled,
> allowing the user to register restrictions, buffers, files, before to start
> processing SQEs.

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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