correct the comments of vfs_*() helpers in fs/namei.c, including:
1. vfs_create()
2. vfs_mknod()
3. vfs_mkdir()
4. vfs_rmdir()
5. vfs_symlink()
All of them come from the same commit:
6521f89170 "namei: prepare for idmapped mounts"
The @dentry is actually the dentry of child directory rather than
base directory(parent directory), and thus the @dir has to be
modified due to the change of @dentry.
Signed-off-by: Congjie Zhou <zcjie0802@qq.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/tencent_2FCF6CC9E10DC8A27AE58A5A0FE4FCE96D0A@qq.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Features:
- Support passing NULL along AT_EMPTY_PATH for statx().
NULL paths with any flag value other than AT_EMPTY_PATH go the
usual route and end up with -EFAULT to retain compatibility (Rust
is abusing calls of the sort to detect availability of statx)
This avoids path lookup code, lockref management, memory allocation
and in case of NULL path userspace memory access (which can be
quite expensive with SMAP on x86_64)
- Don't block i_writecount during exec. Remove the
deny_write_access() mechanism for executables
- Relax open_by_handle_at() permissions in specific cases where we
can prove that the caller had sufficient privileges to open a file
- Switch timespec64 fields in struct inode to discrete integers
freeing up 4 bytes
Fixes:
- Fix false positive circular locking warning in hfsplus
- Initialize hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode() in hfs
- Avoid accidental overflows in vfs_fallocate()
- Don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR in tmpfs to avoid constantly
restarting shmem_fallocate()
- Add missing quote in comment in fs/readdir
Cleanups:
- Don't assign and test in an if statement in mqueue. Move the
assignment out of the if statement
- Reflow the logic in may_create_in_sticky()
- Remove the usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API from procfs
- Reject FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE_EXCL requets that depend on the new
mount api early
- Rename variables in copy_tree() to make it easier to understand
- Replace WARN(down_read_trylock, ...) abuse with proper asserts in
various places in the VFS
- Get rid of user_path_at_empty() and drop the empty argument from
getname_flags()
- Check for error while copying and no path in one branch in
getname_flags()
- Avoid redundant smp_mb() for THP handling in do_dentry_open()
- Rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU
- Remove unused header include in fs/readdir
- Export in_group_capable() helper and switch f2fs and fuse over to
it instead of open-coding the logic in both places"
* tag 'vfs-6.11.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (27 commits)
ipc: mqueue: remove assignment from IS_ERR argument
vfs: rename parent_ino to d_parent_ino and make it use RCU
vfs: support statx(..., NULL, AT_EMPTY_PATH, ...)
stat: use vfs_empty_path() helper
fs: new helper vfs_empty_path()
fs: reflow may_create_in_sticky()
vfs: remove redundant smp_mb for thp handling in do_dentry_open
fuse: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
f2fs: Use in_group_or_capable() helper
fs: Export in_group_or_capable()
vfs: reorder checks in may_create_in_sticky
hfs: fix to initialize fields of hfs_inode_info after hfs_alloc_inode()
proc: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
hfsplus: fix to avoid false alarm of circular locking
Improve readability of copy_tree
vfs: shave a branch in getname_flags
vfs: retire user_path_at_empty and drop empty arg from getname_flags
vfs: stop using user_path_at_empty in do_readlinkat
tmpfs: don't interrupt fallocate with EINTR
fs: don't block i_writecount during exec
...
This is the last - for now - of the "look, we generated some
questionable code for basic pathname lookup operations" set of
branches.
This is mainly just re-organizing the name hashing code in
link_path_walk(), mostly by improving the calling conventions to
the inlined helper functions and moving some of the code around
to allow for more straightforward code generation.
The profiles - and the generated code - look much more palatable
to me now.
* link_path_walk:
vfs: link_path_walk: move more of the name hashing into hash_name()
vfs: link_path_walk: improve may_lookup() code generation
vfs: link_path_walk: do '.' and '..' detection while hashing
vfs: link_path_walk: clarify and improve name hashing interface
vfs: link_path_walk: simplify name hash flow
This avoids having to return the length of the component entirely by
just doing all of the name processing in hash_name(). We can just
return the end of the path component, and a flag for the DOT and DOTDOT
cases.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Instead of having separate calls to 'inode_permission()' depending on
whether we're in RCU lookup or not, just share the first call.
Note that the initial "conditional" on LOOKUP_RCU really turns into just
a "convert the LOOKUP_RCU bit in the nameidata into the MAY_NOT_BLOCK
bit in the argument", which is just a trivial bitwise and and shift
operation.
So the initial conditional goes away entirely, and then the likely case
is that it will succeed independently of us being in RCU lookup or not,
and the possible "we may need to fall out of RCU and redo it all" fixups
that are needed afterwards all go in the unlikely path.
[ This also marks 'nd' restrict, because that means that the compiler
can know that there is no other alias, and can cache the LOOKUP_RCU
value over the call to inode_permission(). ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The routine is called for all directories on file creation and weirdly
postpones the check if the dir is sticky to begin with. Instead it first
checks fifos and regular files (in that order), while avoidably pulling
globals.
No functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240620120359.151258-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Check for an error while copying and no path in one branch.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604155257.109500-4-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Instead of loading the name again to detect '.' and '..', just use the
fact that we already had the masked last word available when as we
created the name hash. Which is exactly what we'd then test for.
Dealing with big-endian word ordering needs a bit of care, particularly
since we have the byte-at-a-time loop as a fallback that doesn't do BE
word loads. But not a big deal.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that we clearly only care about the length of the name we just
parsed, we can simplify and clarify the interface to "name_hash()", and
move the actual nd->last field setting in there.
That makes everything simpler, and this way don't mix the hash and the
length together only to then immediately unmix them again.
We still eventually want the combined mixed "hashlen" for when we look
things up in the dentry cache, but inside link_path_walk() it's simpler
and clearer to just deal with the path component length.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is one of those hot functions in path walking, and it's doing
things in just the wrong order that causes slightly unnecessary extra
work.
Move the name pointer update and the setting of 'nd->last' up a bit, so
that the (unlikely) filesystem-specific hashing can run on them in
place, instead of having to set up a copy on the stack and copy things
back and forth.
Because even when the hashing is not run, it causes the stack frame of
the function to be bigger to hold the unnecessary temporary copy.
This also means that we never then reference the full "hashlen" field
after calculating it, and can clarify the code with just using the
length part.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When a file is opened and created with open(..., O_CREAT) we get
both the CREATE and OPEN fsnotify events and would expect them in that
order. For most filesystems we get them in that order because
open_last_lookups() calls fsnofify_create() and then do_open() (from
path_openat()) calls vfs_open()->do_dentry_open() which calls
fsnotify_open().
However when ->atomic_open is used, the
do_dentry_open() -> fsnotify_open()
call happens from finish_open() which is called from the ->atomic_open
handler in lookup_open() which is called *before* open_last_lookups()
calls fsnotify_create. So we get the "open" notification before
"create" - which is backwards. ltp testcase inotify02 tests this and
reports the inconsistency.
This patch lifts the fsnotify_open() call out of do_dentry_open() and
places it higher up the call stack. There are three callers of
do_dentry_open().
For vfs_open() and kernel_file_open() the fsnotify_open() is placed
directly in that caller so there should be no behavioural change.
For finish_open() there are two cases:
- finish_open is used in ->atomic_open handlers. For these we add a
call to fsnotify_open() at open_last_lookups() if FMODE_OPENED is
set - which means do_dentry_open() has been called.
- finish_open is used in ->tmpfile() handlers. For these a similar
call to fsnotify_open() is added to vfs_tmpfile()
With this patch NFSv3 is restored to its previous behaviour (before
->atomic_open support was added) of generating CREATE notifications
before OPEN, and NFSv4 now has that same correct ordering that is has
not had before. I haven't tested other filesystems.
Fixes: 7c6c5249f0 ("NFS: add atomic_open for NFSv3 to handle O_TRUNC correctly.")
Reported-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/01c3bf2e-eb1f-4b7f-a54f-d2a05dd3d8c8@arm.com
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/171817619547.14261.975798725161704336@noble.neil.brown.name
Fixes: 7b8c9d7bb4 ("fsnotify: move fsnotify_open() hook into do_dentry_open()")
Tested-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240617162303.1596-2-jack@suse.cz
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
No users after do_readlinkat started doing the job on its own.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240604155257.109500-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
- Add tmpfile support
- Clean up include
* tag 'ovl-update-6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
ovl: remove duplicate included header
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ovl: implement tmpfile
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.10.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Free up FMODE_* bits. I've freed up bits 6, 7, 8, and 24. That
means we now have six free FMODE_* bits in total (but bit #6
already got used for FMODE_WRITE_RESTRICTED)
- Add FOP_HUGE_PAGES flag (follow-up to FMODE_* cleanup)
- Add fd_raw cleanup class so we can make use of automatic cleanup
provided by CLASS(fd_raw, f)(fd) for O_PATH fds as well
- Optimize seq_puts()
- Simplify __seq_puts()
- Add new anon_inode_getfile_fmode() api to allow specifying f_mode
instead of open-coding it in multiple places
- Annotate struct file_handle with __counted_by() and use
struct_size()
- Warn in get_file() whether f_count resurrection from zero is
attempted (epoll/drm discussion)
- Folio-sophize aio
- Export the subvolume id in statx() for both btrfs and bcachefs
- Relax linkat(AT_EMPTY_PATH) requirements
- Add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl() allowing to compare two file descriptors
for dup*() equality replacing kcmp()
Cleanups:
- Compile out swapfile inode checks when swap isn't enabled
- Use (1 << n) notation for FMODE_* bitshifts for clarity
- Remove redundant variable assignment in fs/direct-io
- Cleanup uses of strncpy in orangefs
- Speed up and cleanup writeback
- Move fsparam_string_empty() helper into header since it's currently
open-coded in multiple places
- Add kernel-doc comments to proc_create_net_data_write()
- Don't needlessly read dentry->d_flags twice
Fixes:
- Fix out-of-range warning in nilfs2
- Fix ecryptfs overflow due to wrong encryption packet size
calculation
- Fix overly long line in xfs file_operations (follow-up to FMODE_*
cleanup)
- Don't raise FOP_BUFFER_{R,W}ASYNC for directories in xfs (follow-up
to FMODE_* cleanup)
- Don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open (follow-up to FMODE_*
cleanup)
- Fix stable offset api to prevent endless loops
- Fix afs file server rotations
- Prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock in jffs2
- Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ procfs check into the .permission()
operation instead of .open() operation since this caused userspace
regressions"
* tag 'vfs-6.10.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (39 commits)
afs: Fix fileserver rotation getting stuck
selftests: add F_DUPDFD_QUERY selftests
fcntl: add F_DUPFD_QUERY fcntl()
file: add fd_raw cleanup class
fs: WARN when f_count resurrection is attempted
seq_file: Simplify __seq_puts()
seq_file: Optimize seq_puts()
proc: Move fdinfo PTRACE_MODE_READ check into the inode .permission operation
fs: Create anon_inode_getfile_fmode()
xfs: don't call xfs_file_open from xfs_dir_open
xfs: drop fop_flags for directories
xfs: fix overly long line in the file_operations
shmem: Fix shmem_rename2()
libfs: Add simple_offset_rename() API
libfs: Fix simple_offset_rename_exchange()
jffs2: prevent xattr node from overflowing the eraseblock
vfs, swap: compile out IS_SWAPFILE() on swapless configs
vfs: relax linkat() AT_EMPTY_PATH - aka flink() - requirements
fs/direct-io: remove redundant assignment to variable retval
fs/dcache: Re-use value stored to dentry->d_flags instead of re-reading
...
Combine inode creation with opening a file.
There are six separate objects that are being set up: the backing inode,
dentry and file, and the overlay inode, dentry and file. Cleanup in case
of an error is a bit of a challenge and is difficult to test, so careful
review is needed.
All tmpfile testcases except generic/509 now run/pass, and no regressions
are observed with full xfstests.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
"The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over
again and expecting different results”
We've tried to do this before, most recently with commit bb2314b479
("fs: Allow unprivileged linkat(..., AT_EMPTY_PATH) aka flink") about a
decade ago.
But the effort goes back even further than that, eg this thread back
from 1998 that is so old that we don't even have it archived in lore:
https://lkml.org/lkml/1998/3/10/108
which also points out some of the reasons why it's dangerous.
Or, how about then in 2003:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2003/4/6/112
where we went through some of the same arguments, just wirh different
people involved.
In particular, having access to a file descriptor does not necessarily
mean that you have access to the path that was used for lookup, and
there may be very good reasons why you absolutely must not have access
to a path to said file.
For example, if we were passed a file descriptor from the outside into
some limited environment (think chroot, but also user namespaces etc) a
'flink()' system call could now make that file visible inside a context
where it's not supposed to be visible.
In the process the user may also be able to re-open it with permissions
that the original file descriptor did not have (eg a read-only file
descriptor may be associated with an underlying file that is writable).
Another variation on this is if somebody else (typically root) opens a
file in a directory that is not accessible to others, and passes the
file descriptor on as a read-only file. Again, the access to the file
descriptor does not imply that you should have access to a path to the
file in the filesystem.
So while we have tried this several times in the past, it never works.
The last time we did this, that commit bb2314b479 quickly got reverted
again in commit f0cc6ffb8c (Revert "fs: Allow unprivileged linkat(...,
AT_EMPTY_PATH) aka flink"), with a note saying "We may re-do this once
the whole discussion about the interface is done".
Well, the discussion is long done, and didn't come to any resolution.
There's no question that 'flink()' would be a useful operation, but it's
a dangerous one.
However, it does turn out that since 2008 (commit d76b0d9b2d: "CRED:
Use creds in file structs") we have had a fairly straightforward way to
check whether the file descriptor was opened by the same credentials as
the credentials of the flink().
That allows the most common patterns that people want to use, which tend
to be to either open the source carefully (ie using the openat2()
RESOLVE_xyz flags, and/or checking ownership with fstat() before
linking), or to use O_TMPFILE and fill in the file contents before it's
exposed to the world with linkat().
But it also means that if the file descriptor was opened by somebody
else, or we've gone through a credentials change since, the operation no
longer works (unless we have CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH capabilities in the
opener's user namespace, as before).
Note that the credential equality check is done by using pointer
equality, which means that it's not enough that you have effectively the
same user - they have to be literally identical, since our credentials
are using copy-on-write semantics.
So you can't change your credentials to something else and try to change
it back to the same ones between the open() and the linkat(). This is
not meant to be some kind of generic permission check, this is literally
meant as a "the open and link calls are 'atomic' wrt user credentials"
check.
It also means that you can't just move things between namespaces,
because the credentials aren't just a list of uid's and gid's: they
includes the pointer to the user_ns that the capabilities are relative
to.
So let's try this one more time and see if maybe this approach ends up
being workable after all.
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240411001012.12513-1-torvalds@linux-foundation.org
[brauner: relax capability check to opener of the file]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231113-undenkbar-gediegen-efde5f1c34bc@brauner
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Commit 08abce60d6 ("security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook")
introduced security_path_post_mknod(), to replace the IMA-specific call
to ima_post_path_mknod().
For symmetry with security_path_mknod(), security_path_post_mknod() was
called after a successful mknod operation, for any file type, rather
than only for regular files at the time there was the IMA call.
However, as reported by VFS maintainers, successful mknod operation does
not mean that the dentry always has an inode attached to it (for
example, not for FIFOs on a SAMBA mount).
If that condition happens, the kernel crashes when
security_path_post_mknod() attempts to verify if the inode associated to
the dentry is private.
Move security_path_post_mknod() where the ima_post_path_mknod() call was,
which is obviously correct from IMA/EVM perspective. IMA/EVM are the only
in-kernel users, and only need to inspect regular files.
Reported-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/CAH2r5msAVzxCUHHG8VKrMPUKQHmBpE6K9_vjhgDa1uAvwx4ppw@mail.gmail.com/
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: 08abce60d6 ("security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook")
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'lsm-pr-20240312' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm
Pull lsm updates from Paul Moore:
- Promote IMA/EVM to a proper LSM
This is the bulk of the diffstat, and the source of all the changes
in the VFS code. Prior to the start of the LSM stacking work it was
important that IMA/EVM were separate from the rest of the LSMs,
complete with their own hooks, infrastructure, etc. as it was the
only way to enable IMA/EVM at the same time as a LSM.
However, now that the bulk of the LSM infrastructure supports
multiple simultaneous LSMs, we can simplify things greatly by
bringing IMA/EVM into the LSM infrastructure as proper LSMs. This is
something I've wanted to see happen for quite some time and Roberto
was kind enough to put in the work to make it happen.
- Use the LSM hook default values to simplify the call_int_hook() macro
Previously the call_int_hook() macro required callers to supply a
default return value, despite a default value being specified when
the LSM hook was defined.
This simplifies the macro by using the defined default return value
which makes life easier for callers and should also reduce the number
of return value bugs in the future (we've had a few pop up recently,
hence this work).
- Use the KMEM_CACHE() macro instead of kmem_cache_create()
The guidance appears to be to use the KMEM_CACHE() macro when
possible and there is no reason why we can't use the macro, so let's
use it.
- Fix a number of comment typos in the LSM hook comment blocks
Not much to say here, we fixed some questionable grammar decisions in
the LSM hook comment blocks.
* tag 'lsm-pr-20240312' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/lsm: (28 commits)
cred: Use KMEM_CACHE() instead of kmem_cache_create()
lsm: use default hook return value in call_int_hook()
lsm: fix typos in security/security.c comment headers
integrity: Remove LSM
ima: Make it independent from 'integrity' LSM
evm: Make it independent from 'integrity' LSM
evm: Move to LSM infrastructure
ima: Move IMA-Appraisal to LSM infrastructure
ima: Move to LSM infrastructure
integrity: Move integrity_kernel_module_request() to IMA
security: Introduce key_post_create_or_update hook
security: Introduce inode_post_remove_acl hook
security: Introduce inode_post_set_acl hook
security: Introduce inode_post_create_tmpfile hook
security: Introduce path_post_mknod hook
security: Introduce file_release hook
security: Introduce file_post_open hook
security: Introduce inode_post_removexattr hook
security: Introduce inode_post_setattr hook
security: Align inode_setattr hook definition with EVM
...
- string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy Shevchenko)
- VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev, Harshit
Mogalapalli)
- selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure (Michael
Ellerman)
- hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)
- Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)
- Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)
- Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)
- Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob Keller)
- Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)
- Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)
- Ignore relocations in .notes section
- Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works
- Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test
- Convert string selftests to KUnit
- Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions
- Improve reporting during fortified string warnings
- Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
- Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments
- Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner
- Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner
- Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper
- Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t
- Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS
- Fix UBSAN self-test warnings
- Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
- Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer
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Merge tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull hardening updates from Kees Cook:
"As is pretty normal for this tree, there are changes all over the
place, especially for small fixes, selftest improvements, and improved
macro usability.
Some header changes ended up landing via this tree as they depended on
the string header cleanups. Also, a notable set of changes is the work
for the reintroduction of the UBSAN signed integer overflow sanitizer
so that we can continue to make improvements on the compiler side to
make this sanitizer a more viable future security hardening option.
Summary:
- string.h and related header cleanups (Tanzir Hasan, Andy
Shevchenko)
- VMCI memcpy() usage and struct_size() cleanups (Vasiliy Kovalev,
Harshit Mogalapalli)
- selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
(Michael Ellerman)
- hardened Kconfig fragment updates (Marco Elver, Lukas Bulwahn)
- Handle tail call optimization better in LKDTM (Douglas Anderson)
- Use long form types in overflow.h (Andy Shevchenko)
- Add flags param to string_get_size() (Andy Shevchenko)
- Add Coccinelle script for potential struct_size() use (Jacob
Keller)
- Fix objtool corner case under KCFI (Josh Poimboeuf)
- Drop 13 year old backward compat CAP_SYS_ADMIN check (Jingzi Meng)
- Add str_plural() helper (Michal Wajdeczko, Kees Cook)
- Ignore relocations in .notes section
- Add comments to explain how __is_constexpr() works
- Fix m68k stack alignment expectations in stackinit Kunit test
- Convert string selftests to KUnit
- Add KUnit tests for fortified string functions
- Improve reporting during fortified string warnings
- Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
- Allow strscpy() to be called with only 2 arguments
- Add binary mode to leaking_addresses scanner
- Various small cleanups to leaking_addresses scanner
- Adding wrapping_*() arithmetic helper
- Annotate initial signed integer wrap-around in refcount_t
- Add explicit UBSAN section to MAINTAINERS
- Fix UBSAN self-test warnings
- Simplify UBSAN build via removal of CONFIG_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL
- Reintroduce UBSAN's signed overflow sanitizer"
* tag 'hardening-v6.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (51 commits)
selftests/powerpc: Fix load_unaligned_zeropad build failure
string: Convert helpers selftest to KUnit
string: Convert selftest to KUnit
sh: Fix build with CONFIG_UBSAN=y
compiler.h: Explain how __is_constexpr() works
overflow: Allow non-type arg to type_max() and type_min()
VMCI: Fix possible memcpy() run-time warning in vmci_datagram_invoke_guest_handler()
lib/string_helpers: Add flags param to string_get_size()
x86, relocs: Ignore relocations in .notes section
objtool: Fix UNWIND_HINT_{SAVE,RESTORE} across basic blocks
overflow: Use POD in check_shl_overflow()
lib: stackinit: Adjust target string to 8 bytes for m68k
sparc: vdso: Disable UBSAN instrumentation
kernel.h: Move lib/cmdline.c prototypes to string.h
leaking_addresses: Provide mechanism to scan binary files
leaking_addresses: Ignore input device status lines
leaking_addresses: Use File::Temp for /tmp files
MAINTAINERS: Update LEAKING_ADDRESSES details
fortify: Improve buffer overflow reporting
fortify: Add KUnit tests for runtime overflows
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.9.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Misc features, cleanups, and fixes for vfs and individual filesystems.
Features:
- Support idmapped mounts for hugetlbfs.
- Add RWF_NOAPPEND flag for pwritev2(). This allows us to fix a bug
where the passed offset is ignored if the file is O_APPEND. The new
flag allows a caller to enforce that the offset is honored to
conform to posix even if the file was opened in append mode.
- Move i_mmap_rwsem in struct address_space to avoid false sharing
between i_mmap and i_mmap_rwsem.
- Convert efs, qnx4, and coda to use the new mount api.
- Add a generic is_dot_dotdot() helper that's used by various
filesystems and the VFS code instead of open-coding it multiple
times.
- Recently we've added stable offsets which allows stable ordering
when iterating directories exported through NFS on e.g., tmpfs
filesystems. Originally an xarray was used for the offset map but
that caused slab fragmentation issues over time. This switches the
offset map to the maple tree which has a dense mode that handles
this scenario a lot better. Includes tests.
- Finally merge the case-insensitive improvement series Gabriel has
been working on for a long time. This cleanly propagates case
insensitive operations through ->s_d_op which in turn allows us to
remove the quite ugly generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops() operations.
It also improves performance by trying a case-sensitive comparison
first and then fallback to case-insensitive lookup if that fails.
This also fixes a bug where overlayfs would be able to be mounted
over a case insensitive directory which would lead to all sort of
odd behaviors.
Cleanups:
- Make file_dentry() a simple accessor now that ->d_real() is
simplified because of the backing file work we did the last two
cycles.
- Use the dedicated file_mnt_idmap helper in ntfs3.
- Use smp_load_acquire/store_release() in the i_size_read/write
helpers and thus remove the hack to handle i_size reads in the
filemap code.
- The SLAB_MEM_SPREAD is a nop now. Remove it from various places in
fs/
- It's no longer necessary to perform a second built-in initramfs
unpack call because we retain the contents of the previous
extraction. Remove it.
- Now that we have removed various allocators kfree_rcu() always
works with kmem caches and kmalloc(). So simplify various places
that only use an rcu callback in order to handle the kmem cache
case.
- Convert the pipe code to use a lockdep comparison function instead
of open-coding the nesting making lockdep validation easier.
- Move code into fs-writeback.c that was located in a header but can
be made static as it's only used in that one file.
- Rewrite the alignment checking iterators for iovec and bvec to be
easier to read, and also significantly more compact in terms of
generated code. This saves 270 bytes of text on x86-64 (with
clang-18) and 224 bytes on arm64 (with gcc-13). In profiles it also
saves a bit of time for the same workload.
- Switch various places to use KMEM_CACHE instead of
kmem_cache_create().
- Use inode_set_ctime_to_ts() in inode_set_ctime_current()
- Use kzalloc() in name_to_handle_at() to avoid kernel infoleak.
- Various smaller cleanups for eventfds.
Fixes:
- Fix various comments and typos, and unneeded initializations.
- Fix stack allocation hack for clang in the select code.
- Improve dump_mapping() debug code on a best-effort basis.
- Fix build errors in various selftests.
- Avoid wrap-around instrumentation in various places.
- Don't allow user namespaces without an idmapping to be used for
idmapped mounts.
- Fix sysv sb_read() call.
- Fix fallback implementation of the get_name() export operation"
* tag 'vfs-6.9.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (70 commits)
hugetlbfs: support idmapped mounts
qnx4: convert qnx4 to use the new mount api
fs: use inode_set_ctime_to_ts to set inode ctime to current time
libfs: Drop generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops
ubifs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
f2fs: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
ext4: Configure dentry operations at dentry-creation time
libfs: Add helper to choose dentry operations at mount-time
libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate once the key is added
fscrypt: Drop d_revalidate for valid dentries during lookup
fscrypt: Factor out a helper to configure the lookup dentry
ovl: Always reject mounting over case-insensitive directories
libfs: Attempt exact-match comparison first during casefolded lookup
efs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
jfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
minix: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
openpromfs: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
proc: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
qnx6: remove SLAB_MEM_SPREAD flag usage
...
If lazy call of ->permission() returns a hard error, check that
try_to_unlazy() succeeds before returning it. That both makes
life easier for ->permission() instances and closes the race
in ENOTDIR handling - it is possible that positive d_can_lookup()
seen in link_path_walk() applies to the state *after* unlink() +
mkdir(), while nd->inode matches the state prior to that.
Normally seeing e.g. EACCES from permission check in rcu pathwalk
means that with some timings non-rcu pathwalk would've run into
the same; however, running into a non-executable regular file
in the middle of a pathname would not get to permission check -
it would fail with ENOTDIR instead.
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Move hardcoded IMA function calls (not appraisal-specific functions) from
various places in the kernel to the LSM infrastructure, by introducing a
new LSM named 'ima' (at the end of the LSM list and always enabled like
'integrity').
Having IMA before EVM in the Makefile is sufficient to preserve the
relative order of the new 'ima' LSM in respect to the upcoming 'evm' LSM,
and thus the order of IMA and EVM function calls as when they were
hardcoded.
Make moved functions as static (except ima_post_key_create_or_update(),
which is not in ima_main.c), and register them as implementation of the
respective hooks in the new function init_ima_lsm().
Select CONFIG_SECURITY_PATH, to ensure that the path-based LSM hook
path_post_mknod is always available and ima_post_path_mknod() is always
executed to mark files as new, as before the move.
A slight difference is that IMA and EVM functions registered for the
inode_post_setattr, inode_post_removexattr, path_post_mknod,
inode_post_create_tmpfile, inode_post_set_acl and inode_post_remove_acl
won't be executed for private inodes. Since those inodes are supposed to be
fs-internal, they should not be of interest to IMA or EVM. The S_PRIVATE
flag is used for anonymous inodes, hugetlbfs, reiserfs xattrs, XFS scrub
and kernel-internal tmpfs files.
Conditionally register ima_post_key_create_or_update() if
CONFIG_IMA_MEASURE_ASYMMETRIC_KEYS is enabled. Also, conditionally register
ima_kernel_module_request() if CONFIG_INTEGRITY_ASYMMETRIC_KEYS is enabled.
Finally, add the LSM_ID_IMA case in lsm_list_modules_test.c.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
the inode_post_create_tmpfile hook.
As temp files can be made persistent, treat new temp files like other new
files, so that the file hash is calculated and stored in the security
xattr.
LSMs could also take some action after temp files have been created.
The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
canceled.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
In preparation for moving IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce
the path_post_mknod hook.
IMA-appraisal requires all existing files in policy to have a file
hash/signature stored in security.ima. An exception is made for empty files
created by mknod, by tagging them as new files.
LSMs could also take some action after files are created.
The new hook cannot return an error and cannot cause the operation to be
reverted.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
In preparation to move IMA and EVM to the LSM infrastructure, introduce the
file_post_open hook. Also, export security_file_post_open() for NFS.
Based on policy, IMA calculates the digest of the file content and
extends the TPM with the digest, verifies the file's integrity based on
the digest, and/or includes the file digest in the audit log.
LSMs could similarly take action depending on the file content and the
access mask requested with open().
The new hook returns a value and can cause the open to be aborted.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com>
Reviewed-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
This patch creates wordpart.h and includes it in asm/word-at-a-time.h
for all architectures. WORD_AT_A_TIME_CONSTANTS depends on kernel.h
because of REPEAT_BYTE. Moving this to another header and including it
where necessary allows us to not include the bloated kernel.h. Making
this implicit dependency on REPEAT_BYTE explicit allows for later
improvements in the lib/string.c inclusion list.
Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tanzir Hasan <tanzirh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231226-libstringheader-v6-1-80aa08c7652c@google.com
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Merge exportfs fixes from Chuck Lever:
* tag 'exportfs-6.9' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cel/linux:
fs: Create a generic is_dot_dotdot() utility
exportfs: fix the fallback implementation of the get_name export operation
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/BDC2AEB4-7085-4A7C-8DE8-A659FE1DBA6A@oracle.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
De-duplicate the same functionality in several places by hoisting
the is_dot_dotdot() utility function into linux/fs.h.
Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-bcachefs-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull bcachefs locking fix from Al Viro:
"Fix broken locking in bch2_ioctl_subvolume_destroy()"
* tag 'pull-bcachefs-fix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
bch2_ioctl_subvolume_destroy(): fix locking
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull rename updates from Al Viro:
"Fix directory locking scheme on rename
This was broken in 6.5; we really can't lock two unrelated directories
without holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex first and in case of same-parent
rename of a subdirectory 6.5 ends up doing just that"
* tag 'pull-rename' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
rename(): avoid a deadlock in the case of parents having no common ancestor
kill lock_two_inodes()
rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories
f2fs: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
ext4: don't access the source subdirectory content on same-directory rename
ext2: Avoid reading renamed directory if parent does not change
udf_rename(): only access the child content on cross-directory rename
ocfs2: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
reiserfs: Avoid touching renamed directory if parent does not change
To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a size
penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the sentinel, the
final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados has been doing all this
work. On the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to remove
the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/ directory only.
The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as those patches
are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect also the removal of the
no longer needed check for procname == NULL.
Let us recap the purpose of this work:
- this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array
- the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move sysctls
out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files
Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to see further
work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the struct ctl_table.
Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have suggested
for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for v6.9-rc1 I look forward
to seeing him sent you a pull request for further sysctl changes. This also
removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer as he has moved on to other projects and
has had no time to help at all.
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux
Pull sysctl updates from Luis Chamberlain:
"To help make the move of sysctls out of kernel/sysctl.c not incur a
size penalty sysctl has been changed to allow us to not require the
sentinel, the final empty element on the sysctl array. Joel Granados
has been doing all this work.
In the v6.6 kernel we got the major infrastructure changes required to
support this. For v6.7 we had all arch/ and drivers/ modified to
remove the sentinel. For v6.8-rc1 we get a few more updates for fs/
directory only.
The kernel/ directory is left but we'll save that for v6.9-rc1 as
those patches are still being reviewed. After that we then can expect
also the removal of the no longer needed check for procname == NULL.
Let us recap the purpose of this work:
- this helps reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run
time memory consumed by the kernel by about ~64 bytes per array
- the extra 64-byte penalty is no longer inncurred now when we move
sysctls out from kernel/sysctl.c to their own files
Thomas Weißschuh also sent a few cleanups, for v6.9-rc1 we expect to
see further work by Thomas Weißschuh with the constificatin of the
struct ctl_table.
Due to Joel Granados's work, and to help bring in new blood, I have
suggested for him to become a maintainer and he's accepted. So for
v6.9-rc1 I look forward to seeing him sent you a pull request for
further sysctl changes. This also removes Iurii Zaikin as a maintainer
as he has moved on to other projects and has had no time to help at
all"
* tag 'sysctl-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mcgrof/linux:
sysctl: remove struct ctl_path
sysctl: delete unused define SYSCTL_PERM_EMPTY_DIR
coda: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
sysctl: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array
cachefiles: Remove the now superfluous sentinel element from ctl_table array
sysclt: Clarify the results of selftest run
sysctl: Add a selftest for handling empty dirs
sysctl: Fix out of bounds access for empty sysctl registers
MAINTAINERS: Add Joel Granados as co-maintainer for proc sysctl
MAINTAINERS: remove Iurii Zaikin from proc sysctl
This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)
Remove sentinel elements ctl_table struct. Special attention was placed in
making sure that an empty directory for fs/verity was created when
CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES is not defined. In this case we use the
register sysctl call that expects a size.
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Bring in the changes to the file infrastructure for this cycle. Mostly
cleanups and some performance tweaks.
* file: remove __receive_fd()
* file: stop exposing receive_fd_user()
* fs: replace f_rcuhead with f_task_work
* file: remove pointless wrapper
* file: s/close_fd_get_file()/file_close_fd()/g
* Improve __fget_files_rcu() code generation (and thus __fget_light())
* file: massage cleanup of files that failed to open
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Do the replacement:
s/simply passs @nop_mnt_idmap/simply pass @nop_mnt_idmap/
in the fs/ tree.
Found by chance while working on support for idmapped mounts in fuse.
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215130927.136917-1-aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
A file that has never gotten FMODE_OPENED will never have RCU-accessed
references, its final fput() is equivalent to file_free() and if it
doesn't have FMODE_BACKING either, it can be done from any context and
won't need task_work treatment.
Now that we have SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU we can simplify this and have
other callers benefit. All of that can be achieved easier is to make
fput() recoginze that case and call file_free() directly.
No need to introduce a special primitive for that. It also allowed
things like failing dentry_open() could benefit from that as well.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: massage commit message]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231126020834.GC38156@ZenIV
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
... and fix the directory locking documentation and proof of correctness.
Holding ->s_vfs_rename_mutex *almost* prevents ->d_parent changes; the
case where we really don't want it is splicing the root of disconnected
tree to somewhere.
In other words, ->s_vfs_rename_mutex is sufficient to stabilize "X is an
ancestor of Y" only if X and Y are already in the same tree. Otherwise
it can go from false to true, and one can construct a deadlock on that.
Make lock_two_directories() report an error in such case and update the
callers of lock_rename()/lock_rename_child() to handle such errors.
And yes, such conditions are not impossible to create ;-/
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We should never lock two subdirectories without having taken
->s_vfs_rename_mutex; inode pointer order or not, the "order" proposed
in 28eceeda13 "fs: Lock moved directories" is not transitive, with
the usual consequences.
The rationale for locking renamed subdirectory in all cases was
the possibility of race between rename modifying .. in a subdirectory to
reflect the new parent and another thread modifying the same subdirectory.
For a lot of filesystems that's not a problem, but for some it can lead
to trouble (e.g. the case when short directory contents is kept in the
inode, but creating a file in it might push it across the size limit
and copy its contents into separate data block(s)).
However, we need that only in case when the parent does change -
otherwise ->rename() doesn't need to do anything with .. entry in the
first place. Some instances are lazy and do a tautological update anyway,
but it's really not hard to avoid.
Amended locking rules for rename():
find the parent(s) of source and target
if source and target have the same parent
lock the common parent
else
lock ->s_vfs_rename_mutex
lock both parents, in ancestor-first order; if neither
is an ancestor of another, lock the parent of source
first.
find the source and target.
if source and target have the same parent
if operation is an overwriting rename of a subdirectory
lock the target subdirectory
else
if source is a subdirectory
lock the source
if target is a subdirectory
lock the target
lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order if both
source and target are such.
That way we are guaranteed that parents are locked (for obvious reasons),
that any renamed non-directory is locked (nfsd relies upon that),
that any victim is locked (emptiness check needs that, among other things)
and subdirectory that changes parent is locked (needed to protect the update
of .. entries). We are also guaranteed that any operation locking more
than one directory either takes ->s_vfs_rename_mutex or locks a parent
followed by its child.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 28eceeda13 "fs: Lock moved directories"
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual miscellaneous features, cleanups, and fixes
for vfs and individual fses.
Features:
- Rename and export helpers that get write access to a mount. They
are used in overlayfs to get write access to the upper mount.
- Print the pretty name of the root device on boot failure. This
helps in scenarios where we would usually only print
"unknown-block(1,2)".
- Add an internal SB_I_NOUMASK flag. This is another part in the
endless POSIX ACL saga in a way.
When POSIX ACLs are enabled via SB_POSIXACL the vfs cannot strip
the umask because if the relevant inode has POSIX ACLs set it might
take the umask from there. But if the inode doesn't have any POSIX
ACLs set then we apply the umask in the filesytem itself. So we end
up with:
(1) no SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in vfs
(2) SB_POSIXACL -> strip umask in filesystem
The umask semantics associated with SB_POSIXACL allowed filesystems
that don't even support POSIX ACLs at all to raise SB_POSIXACL
purely to avoid umask stripping. That specifically means NFS v4 and
Overlayfs. NFS v4 does it because it delegates this to the server
and Overlayfs because it needs to delegate umask stripping to the
upper filesystem, i.e., the filesystem used as the writable layer.
This went so far that SB_POSIXACL is raised eve on kernels that
don't even have POSIX ACL support at all.
Stop this blatant abuse and add SB_I_NOUMASK which is an internal
superblock flag that filesystems can raise to opt out of umask
handling. That should really only be the two mentioned above. It's
not that we want any filesystems to do this. Ideally we have all
umask handling always in the vfs.
- Make overlayfs use SB_I_NOUMASK too.
- Now that we have SB_I_NOUMASK, stop checking for SB_POSIXACL in
IS_POSIXACL() if the kernel doesn't have support for it. This is a
very old patch but it's only possible to do this now with the wider
cleanup that was done.
- Follow-up work on fake path handling from last cycle. Citing mostly
from Amir:
When overlayfs was first merged, overlayfs files of regular files
and directories, the ones that are installed in file table, had a
"fake" path, namely, f_path is the overlayfs path and f_inode is
the "real" inode on the underlying filesystem.
In v6.5, we took another small step by introducing of the
backing_file container and the file_real_path() helper. This change
allowed vfs and filesystem code to get the "real" path of an
overlayfs backing file. With this change, we were able to make
fsnotify work correctly and report events on the "real" filesystem
objects that were accessed via overlayfs.
This method works fine, but it still leaves the vfs vulnerable to
new code that is not aware of files with fake path. A recent
example is commit db1d1e8b98 ("IMA: use vfs_getattr_nosec to get
the i_version"). This commit uses direct referencing to f_path in
IMA code that otherwise uses file_inode() and file_dentry() to
reference the filesystem objects that it is measuring.
This contains work to switch things around: instead of having
filesystem code opt-in to get the "real" path, have generic code
opt-in for the "fake" path in the few places that it is needed.
Is it far more likely that new filesystems code that does not use
the file_dentry() and file_real_path() helpers will end up causing
crashes or averting LSM/audit rules if we keep the "fake" path
exposed by default.
This change already makes file_dentry() moot, but for now we did
not change this helper just added a WARN_ON() in ovl_d_real() to
catch if we have made any wrong assumptions.
After the dust settles on this change, we can make file_dentry() a
plain accessor and we can drop the inode argument to ->d_real().
- Switch struct file to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU. This looks like a small
change but it really isn't and I would like to see everyone on
their tippie toes for any possible bugs from this work.
Essentially we've been doing most of what SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU for
files since a very long time because of the nasty interactions
between the SCM_RIGHTS file descriptor garbage collection. So
extending it makes a lot of sense but it is a subtle change. There
are almost no places that fiddle with file rcu semantics directly
and the ones that did mess around with struct file internal under
rcu have been made to stop doing that because it really was always
dodgy.
I forgot to put in the link tag for this change and the discussion
in the commit so adding it into the merge message:
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Cleanups:
- Various smaller pipe cleanups including the removal of a spin lock
that was only used to protect against writes without pipe_lock()
from O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE aka watch queues. As that was never
implemented remove the additional locking from pipe_write().
- Annotate struct watch_filter with the new __counted_by attribute.
- Clarify do_unlinkat() cleanup so that it doesn't look like an extra
iput() is done that would cause issues.
- Simplify file cleanup when the file has never been opened.
- Use module helper instead of open-coding it.
- Predict error unlikely for stale retry.
- Use WRITE_ONCE() for mount expiry field instead of just commenting
that one hopes the compiler doesn't get smart.
Fixes:
- Fix readahead on block devices.
- Fix writeback when layztime is enabled and inodes whose timestamp
is the only thing that changed reside on wb->b_dirty_time. This
caused excessively large zombie memory cgroup when lazytime was
enabled as such inodes weren't handled fast enough.
- Convert BUG_ON() to WARN_ON_ONCE() in open_last_lookups()"
* tag 'vfs-6.7.misc' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (26 commits)
file, i915: fix file reference for mmap_singleton()
vfs: Convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON_ONCE in open_last_lookups
writeback, cgroup: switch inodes with dirty timestamps to release dying cgwbs
chardev: Simplify usage of try_module_get()
ovl: rely on SB_I_NOUMASK
fs: fix umask on NFS with CONFIG_FS_POSIX_ACL=n
fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path
fs: create helper file_user_path() for user displayed mapped file path
fs: get mnt_writers count for an open backing file's real path
vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked
vfs: predict the error in retry_estale as unlikely
backing file: free directly
vfs: fix readahead(2) on block devices
io_uring: use files_lookup_fd_locked()
file: convert to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU
vfs: shave work on failed file open
fs: simplify misleading code to remove ambiguity regarding ihold()/iput()
watch_queue: Annotate struct watch_filter with __counted_by
fs/pipe: use spinlock in pipe_read() only if there is a watch_queue
fs/pipe: remove unnecessary spinlock from pipe_write()
...
The calling code actually handles -ECHILD, so this BUG_ON
can be converted to WARN_ON_ONCE.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bschubert@ddn.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231023184718.11143-1-bschubert@ddn.com
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Dharmendra Singh <dsingh@ddn.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Failed opens (mostly ENOENT) legitimately happen a lot, for example here
are stats from stracing kernel build for few seconds (strace -fc make):
% time seconds usecs/call calls errors syscall
------ ----------- ----------- --------- --------- ------------------
0.76 0.076233 5 15040 3688 openat
(this is tons of header files tried in different paths)
In the common case of there being nothing to close (only the file object
to free) there is a lot of overhead which can be avoided.
This is most notably delegation of freeing to task_work, which comes
with an enormous cost (see 021a160abf ("fs: use __fput_sync in
close(2)" for an example).
Benchmarked with will-it-scale with a custom testcase based on
tests/open1.c, stuffed into tests/openneg.c:
[snip]
while (1) {
int fd = open("/tmp/nonexistent", O_RDONLY);
assert(fd == -1);
(*iterations)++;
}
[/snip]
Sapphire Rapids, openneg_processes -t 1 (ops/s):
before: 1950013
after: 2914973 (+49%)
file refcount is checked as a safety belt against buggy consumers with
an atomic cmpxchg. Technically it is not necessary, but it happens to
not be measurable due to several other atomics which immediately follow.
Optmizing them away to make this atomic into a problem is left as an
exercise for the reader.
v2:
- unexport fput_badopen and move to fs/internal.h
- handle the refcount with cmpxchg, adjust commentary accordingly
- tweak the commit message
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230926162228.68666-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Because 'inode' is being initialised before checking if 'dentry' is negative
it looks like an extra iput() on 'inode' may happen since the ihold() is
done only if the dentry is *not* negative. In reality this doesn't happen
because d_is_negative() is never true if ->d_inode is NULL. This patch only
makes the code easier to understand, as I was initially mislead by it.
Signed-off-by: Luís Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230928152341.303-1-lhenriques@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
SB_POSIXACL must be set when a filesystem supports POSIX ACLs, but NFSv4
also sets this flag to prevent the VFS from applying the umask on
newly-created files. NFSv4 doesn't support POSIX ACLs however, which
causes confusion when other subsystems try to test for them.
Add a new SB_I_NOUMASK flag that allows filesystems to opt-in to umask
stripping without advertising support for POSIX ACLs. Set the new flag
on NFSv4 instead of SB_POSIXACL.
Also, move mode_strip_umask to namei.h and convert init_mknod and
init_mkdir to use it.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230911-acl-fix-v3-1-b25315333f6c@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
An io_uring openat operation can update an audit reference count
from multiple threads resulting in the call trace below.
A call to io_uring_submit() with a single openat op with a flag of
IOSQE_ASYNC results in the following reference count updates.
These first part of the system call performs two increments that do not race.
do_syscall_64()
__do_sys_io_uring_enter()
io_submit_sqes()
io_openat_prep()
__io_openat_prep()
getname()
getname_flags() /* update 1 (increment) */
__audit_getname() /* update 2 (increment) */
The openat op is queued to an io_uring worker thread which starts the
opportunity for a race. The system call exit performs one decrement.
do_syscall_64()
syscall_exit_to_user_mode()
syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare()
__audit_syscall_exit()
audit_reset_context()
putname() /* update 3 (decrement) */
The io_uring worker thread performs one increment and two decrements.
These updates can race with the system call decrement.
io_wqe_worker()
io_worker_handle_work()
io_wq_submit_work()
io_issue_sqe()
io_openat()
io_openat2()
do_filp_open()
path_openat()
__audit_inode() /* update 4 (increment) */
putname() /* update 5 (decrement) */
__audit_uring_exit()
audit_reset_context()
putname() /* update 6 (decrement) */
The fix is to change the refcnt member of struct audit_names
from int to atomic_t.
kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:262!
Call Trace:
...
? putname+0x68/0x70
audit_reset_context.part.0.constprop.0+0xe1/0x300
__audit_uring_exit+0xda/0x1c0
io_issue_sqe+0x1f3/0x450
? lock_timer_base+0x3b/0xd0
io_wq_submit_work+0x8d/0x2b0
? __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x67/0xa0
io_worker_handle_work+0x17c/0x2b0
io_wqe_worker+0x10a/0x350
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/MW2PR2101MB1033FFF044A258F84AEAA584F1C9A@MW2PR2101MB1033.namprd21.prod.outlook.com/
Fixes: 5bd2182d58 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring")
Signed-off-by: Dan Clash <daclash@linux.microsoft.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012215518.GA4048@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
These have a variety of causes and a corresponding variety of solutions.
Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" <willy@infradead.org>
Message-Id: <20230818200824.2720007-1-willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns error pointers or NULL.
Most incorrect error checks were fixed, but the one in int path_pts()
was forgotten.
Fixes: eedf265aa0 ("devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.")
Signed-off-by: Wang Ming <machel@vivo.com>
Message-Id: <20230713120555.7025-1-machel@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The @source inode must be valid. It is even checked via IS_SWAPFILE()
above making it pretty clear. So no need to check it when we unlock.
What doesn't need to exist is the @target inode. The lock_two_inodes()
helper currently swaps the @inode1 and @inode2 arguments if @inode1 is
NULL to have consistent lock class usage. However, we know that at least
for vfs_rename() that @inode1 is @source and thus is never NULL as per
above. We also know that @source is a different inode than @target as
that is checked right at the beginning of vfs_rename(). So we know that
@source is valid and locked and that @target is locked. So drop the
check whether @source is non-NULL.
Fixes: 28eceeda13 ("fs: Lock moved directories")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202307030026.9sE2pk2x-lkp@intel.com
Message-Id: <20230703-vfs-rename-source-v1-1-37eebb29b65b@kernel.org>
[brauner: use commit message from patch I sent concurrently]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains Amir's work to fix a long-standing problem where an
unprivileged overlayfs mount can be used to avoid fanotify permission
events that were requested for an inode or superblock on the
underlying filesystem.
Some background about files opened in overlayfs. If a file is opened
in overlayfs @file->f_path will refer to a "fake" path. What this
means is that while @file->f_inode will refer to inode of the
underlying layer, @file->f_path refers to an overlayfs
{dentry,vfsmount} pair. The reasons for doing this are out of scope
here but it is the reason why the vfs has been providing the
open_with_fake_path() helper for overlayfs for very long time now. So
nothing new here.
This is for sure not very elegant and everyone including the overlayfs
maintainers agree. Improving this significantly would involve more
fragile and potentially rather invasive changes.
In various codepaths access to the path of the underlying filesystem
is needed for such hybrid file. The best example is fsnotify where
this becomes security relevant. Passing the overlayfs
@file->f_path->dentry will cause fsnotify to skip generating fsnotify
events registered on the underlying inode or superblock.
To fix this we extend the vfs provided open_with_fake_path() concept
for overlayfs to create a backing file container that holds the real
path and to expose a helper that can be used by relevant callers to
get access to the path of the underlying filesystem through the new
file_real_path() helper. This pattern is similar to what we do in
d_real() and d_real_inode().
The first beneficiary is fsnotify and fixes the security sensitive
problem mentioned above.
There's a couple of nice cleanups included as well.
Over time, the old open_with_fake_path() helper added specifically for
overlayfs a long time ago started to get used in other places such as
cachefiles. Even though cachefiles have nothing to do with hybrid
files.
The only reason cachefiles used that concept was that files opened
with open_with_fake_path() aren't charged against the caller's open
file limit by raising FMODE_NOACCOUNT. It's just mere coincidence that
both overlayfs and cachefiles need to ensure to not overcharge the
caller for their internal open calls.
So this work disentangles FMODE_NOACCOUNT use cases and backing file
use-cases by adding the FMODE_BACKING flag which indicates that the
file can be used to retrieve the backing file of another filesystem.
(Fyi, Jens will be sending you a really nice cleanup from Christoph
that gets rid of 3 FMODE_* flags otherwise this would be the last
fmode_t bit we'd be using.)
So now overlayfs becomes the sole user of the renamed
open_with_fake_path() helper which is now named backing_file_open().
For internal kernel users such as cachefiles that are only interested
in FMODE_NOACCOUNT but not in FMODE_BACKING we add a new
kernel_file_open() helper which opens a file without being charged
against the caller's open file limit. All new helpers are properly
documented and clearly annotated to mention their special uses.
We also rename vfs_tmpfile_open() to kernel_tmpfile_open() to clearly
distinguish it from vfs_tmpfile() and align it the other kernel_*()
internal helpers"
* tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
ovl: enable fsnotify events on underlying real files
fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path
fs: move kmem_cache_zalloc() into alloc_empty_file*() helpers
fs: use a helper for opening kernel internal files
fs: rename {vfs,kernel}_tmpfile_open()
