On 08/12, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 06:37:10PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> > On 08/11, Adrian Reber wrote:
> > >
> > >  include/linux/pid.h        |  2 +-
> > >  include/linux/sched/task.h |  1 +
> > >  include/uapi/linux/sched.h |  1 +
> > >  kernel/fork.c              | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> > >  kernel/pid.c               | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> > >  5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Looks good to me...
> > 
> > A couple of nits below, but I won't insist, feel free to ignore.
> > 
> > > +/*
> > > + * Different sizes of struct clone_args
> > > + */
> > > +#define CLONE3_ARGS_SIZE_V0 64
> > 
> > I don't really understand why do we want the "size < CLONE3_ARGS_SIZE_V0"
> > check in copy_clone_args_from_user(), but I won't argue.
> 
> To make sure a user can't give us a garbage sized struct that is smaller
> than the initial version of the struct.

But why do we want to detect this case?

And why CLONE3_ARGS_SIZE_V0 is special?

Oleg.

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