19 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This patch changes the security_inode_init_security API by adding a
    filesystem specific callback to write security extended attributes.
    This change is in preparation for supporting the initialization of
    multiple LSM xattrs and the EVM xattr. Initially the callback function
    walks an array of xattrs, writing each xattr separately, but could be
    optimized to write multiple xattrs at once.

    For existing security_inode_init_security() calls, which have not yet
    been converted to use the new callback function, such as those in
    reiserfs and ocfs2, this patch defines security_old_inode_init_security().

    Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar

    Mimi Zohar
     

02 Feb, 2011

1 commit

  • SELinux would like to implement a new labeling behavior of newly created
    inodes. We currently label new inodes based on the parent and the creating
    process. This new behavior would also take into account the name of the
    new object when deciding the new label. This is not the (supposed) full path,
    just the last component of the path.

    This is very useful because creating /etc/shadow is different than creating
    /etc/passwd but the kernel hooks are unable to differentiate these
    operations. We currently require that userspace realize it is doing some
    difficult operation like that and than userspace jumps through SELinux hoops
    to get things set up correctly. This patch does not implement new
    behavior, that is obviously contained in a seperate SELinux patch, but it
    does pass the needed name down to the correct LSM hook. If no such name
    exists it is fine to pass NULL.

    Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

    Eric Paris
     

22 May, 2010

1 commit


30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
    included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
    in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
    universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

    percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
    this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
    headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
    needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
    used as the basis of conversion.

    http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

    The script does the followings.

    * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
    only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
    gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

    * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
    blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
    to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
    core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
    alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
    doesn't seem to be any matching order.

    * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
    because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
    an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
    file.

    The conversion was done in the following steps.

    1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
    over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
    and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
    files.

    2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
    some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
    embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
    inclusions to around 150 files.

    3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
    from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

    4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
    e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
    APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

    5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
    editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
    files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
    inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
    wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
    slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
    necessary.

    6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

    7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
    were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
    distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
    more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
    build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

    * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
    * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
    * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
    * s390 SMP allmodconfig
    * alpha SMP allmodconfig
    * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

    8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
    a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

    Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
    6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
    If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
    headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
    the specific arch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

25 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • Commit 57fe60df ("reiserfs: add atomic addition of selinux attributes
    during inode creation") contains a bug that will cause it to oops when
    mounting a file system that didn't previously contain extended attributes
    on a system using security.* xattrs.

    The issue is that while creating the privroot during mount
    reiserfs_security_init calls reiserfs_xattr_jcreate_nblocks which
    dereferences the xattr root. The xattr root doesn't exist, so we get an
    oops.

    Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15309

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Mahoney
     

17 Dec, 2009

1 commit

  • Add a flags argument to struct xattr_handler and pass it to all xattr
    handler methods. This allows using the same methods for multiple
    handlers, e.g. for the ACL methods which perform exactly the same action
    for the access and default ACLs, just using a different underlying
    attribute. With a little more groundwork it'll also allow sharing the
    methods for the regular user/trusted/secure handlers in extN, ocfs2 and
    jffs2 like it's already done for xfs in this patch.

    Also change the inode argument to the handlers to a dentry to allow
    using the handlers mechnism for filesystems that require it later,
    e.g. cifs.

    [with GFS2 bits updated by Steven Whitehouse ]

    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
    Reviewed-by: James Morris
    Acked-by: Joel Becker
    Signed-off-by: Al Viro

    Christoph Hellwig
     

09 May, 2009

1 commit


31 Mar, 2009

3 commits

  • Some time ago, some changes were made to make security inode attributes
    be atomically written during inode creation. ReiserFS fell behind in
    this area, but with the reworking of the xattr code, it's now fairly
    easy to add.

    The following patch adds the ability for security attributes to be added
    automatically during inode creation.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Mahoney
     
  • Christoph Hellwig had asked me quite some time ago to port the reiserfs
    xattrs to the generic xattr interface.

    This patch replaces the reiserfs-specific xattr handling code with the
    generic struct xattr_handler.

    However, since reiserfs doesn't split the prefix and name when accessing
    xattrs, it can't leverage generic_{set,get,list,remove}xattr without
    needlessly reconstructing the name on the back end.

    Update 7/26/07: Added missing dput() to deletion path.
    Update 8/30/07: Added missing mark_inode_dirty when i_mode is used to
    represent an ACL and no previous ACL existed.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Mahoney
     
  • There are a number of helper functions for marking a reiserfs inode
    private that were leftover from reiserfs did its own thing wrt to
    private inodes. S_PRIVATE has been in the kernel for some time, so this
    patch removes the helpers and uses IS_PRIVATE instead.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Jeff Mahoney
     

26 Jul, 2008

1 commit


13 Jul, 2005

1 commit

  • This was a pure indentation change, using:

    scripts/Lindent fs/reiserfs/*.c include/linux/reiserfs_*.h

    to make reiserfs match the regular Linux indentation style. As Jeff
    Mahoney writes:

    The ReiserFS code is a mix of a number of different coding styles, sometimes
    different even from line-to-line. Since the code has been relatively stable
    for quite some time and there are few outstanding patches to be applied, it
    is time to reformat the code to conform to the Linux style standard outlined
    in Documentation/CodingStyle.

    This patch contains the result of running scripts/Lindent against
    fs/reiserfs/*.c and include/linux/reiserfs_*.h. There are places where the
    code can be made to look better, but I'd rather keep those patches separate
    so that there isn't a subtle by-hand hand accident in the middle of a huge
    patch. To be clear: This patch is reformatting *only*.

    A number of patches may follow that continue to make the code more consistent
    with the Linux coding style.

    Hans wasn't particularly enthusiastic about these patches, but said he
    wouldn't really oppose them either.

    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Linus Torvalds
     

17 Apr, 2005

1 commit

  • Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
    even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
    archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
    3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
    git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
    infrastructure for it.

    Let it rip!

    Linus Torvalds