seccomp: Support atomic "addfd + send reply"
Alban Crequy reported a race condition userspace faces when we want to add some fds and make the syscall return them[1] using seccomp notify. The problem is that currently two different ioctl() calls are needed by the process handling the syscalls (agent) for another userspace process (target): SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_ADDFD to allocate the fd and SECCOMP_IOCTL_NOTIF_SEND to return that value. Therefore, it is possible for the agent to do the first ioctl to add a file descriptor but the target is interrupted (EINTR) before the agent does the second ioctl() call. This patch adds a flag to the ADDFD ioctl() so it adds the fd and returns that value atomically to the target program, as suggested by Kees Cook[2]. This is done by simply allowing seccomp_do_user_notification() to add the fd and return it in this case. Therefore, in this case the target wakes up from the wait in seccomp_do_user_notification() either to interrupt the syscall or to add the fd and return it....
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