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dma-buf: document fd flags and O_CLOEXEC requirement
Otherwise subsystems will get this wrong and end up with a second export ioctl with the flag and O_CLOEXEC support added. Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <rob@ti.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
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@ -319,6 +319,24 @@ Miscellaneous notes
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- Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have
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- Any exporters or users of the dma-buf buffer sharing framework must have
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a 'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs.
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a 'select DMA_SHARED_BUFFER' in their respective Kconfigs.
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- In order to avoid fd leaks on exec, the FD_CLOEXEC flag must be set
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on the file descriptor. This is not just a resource leak, but a
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potential security hole. It could give the newly exec'd application
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access to buffers, via the leaked fd, to which it should otherwise
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not be permitted access.
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The problem with doing this via a separate fcntl() call, versus doing it
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atomically when the fd is created, is that this is inherently racy in a
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multi-threaded app[3]. The issue is made worse when it is library code
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opening/creating the file descriptor, as the application may not even be
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aware of the fd's.
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To avoid this problem, userspace must have a way to request O_CLOEXEC
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flag be set when the dma-buf fd is created. So any API provided by
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the exporting driver to create a dmabuf fd must provide a way to let
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userspace control setting of O_CLOEXEC flag passed in to dma_buf_fd().
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References:
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[1] struct dma_buf_ops in include/linux/dma-buf.h
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[1] struct dma_buf_ops in include/linux/dma-buf.h
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[2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/dma-buf.h
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[2] All interfaces mentioned above defined in include/linux/dma-buf.h
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[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/236486/
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