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SubjectRe: [PATCH 03/11] fs: don't allow splice read/write without explicit ops
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 12:39:34PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2020 at 09:32:04AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > default_file_splice_write is the last piece of generic code that uses
> > set_fs to make the uaccess routines operate on kernel pointers. It
> > implements a "fallback loop" for splicing from files that do not actually
> > provide a proper splice_read method. The usual file systems and other
> > high bandwith instances all provide a ->splice_read, so this just removes
> > support for various device drivers and procfs/debugfs files. If splice
> > support for any of those turns out to be important it can be added back
> > by switching them to the iter ops and using generic_file_splice_read.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>
> This seems a bit disruptive? I feel like this is going to make fuzzers
> really noisy (e.g. trinity likes to splice random stuff out of /sys and
> /proc).

Noisy in the sence of triggering the pr_debug or because they can't
handle -EINVAL?

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