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SubjectRe: kernel bug in socketpair()

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 10:00:43 -0700 David S. Miller wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 12:56:12 -0400 (EDT)
> Glenn Fowler <gsf@research.att.com> wrote:

> > the problem is that linux took an implementation shortcut by symlinking
> > /dev/fd/N -> /proc/self/fd/N
> > and by the time the kernel sees /proc/self/fd/N the "self"-ness is apparently
> > lost, and it is forced to do the security checks

> None of this is true. If you open /proc/self/fd/N directly the problem
> is still there.

you missed the point that the original open() call is on /dev/fd/N,
not /proc/PID/fd/N; /proc/PID/fd/N only comes into play because the
linux implementation foists it on the user

> > if the /proc fd open code has access to the original /proc/PID/fd/N path
> > then it can do dup(atoi(N)) when the PID is the current process without
> > affecting security

> If we're talking about the current process, there is no use in using
> /proc/*/fd/N to open a file descriptor in the first place, you can
> simply call open(N,...)

no, in the notation above N is the fd number "so you could simply call dup(N)"

here is one reason why /dev/fd/N is useful:

/dev/fd/N is the underlying mechanism for implementing the bash and ksh

cmd-1 <(cmd-2 ...) ... <(cmd-n ...)

each <(cmd-i ...) is converted to a pipe() with the write side getting the
output of cmd-i (and marked close on exec) and the read side *not* marked
close on exec; cmd-1 is then executed as

cmd-1 /dev/fd/PIPE-READ-2 ... /dev/fd/PIPE-READ-n

where PIPE-READ-i is the fd number of the read side of the pipe for cmd-i

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