05 Sep, 2017
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Problem with ioctl() is that it's a file operation, yet often used as an
inode operation (i.e. modify the inode despite the file being opened for
read-only).mnt_want_write_file() is used by filesystems in such cases to get write
access on an arbitrary open file.Since overlayfs lets filesystems do all file operations, including ioctl,
this can lead to mnt_want_write_file() returning OK for a lower file and
modification of that lower file.This patch prevents modification by checking if the file is from an
overlayfs lower layer and returning EPERM in that case.Need to introduce a mnt_want_write_file_path() variant that still does the
old thing for inode operations that can do the copy up + modification
correctly in such cases (fchown, fsetxattr, fremovexattr).This does not address the correctness of such ioctls on overlayfs (the
correct way would be to copy up and attempt to perform ioctl on upper
file).In theory this could be a regression. We very much hope that nobody is
relying on such a hack in any sane setup.While this patch meddles in VFS code, it has no effect on non-overlayfs
filesystems.Reported-by: "zhangyi (F)"
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi -
Add a separate flags argument (in addition to the open flags) to control
the behavior of d_real().Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
08 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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Pull Writeback error handling updates from Jeff Layton:
"This pile represents the bulk of the writeback error handling fixes
that I have for this cycle. Some of the earlier patches in this pile
may look trivial but they are prerequisites for later patches in the
series.The aim of this set is to improve how we track and report writeback
errors to userland. Most applications that care about data integrity
will periodically call fsync/fdatasync/msync to ensure that their
writes have made it to the backing store.For a very long time, we have tracked writeback errors using two flags
in the address_space: AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC. Those flags are set when a
writeback error occurs (via mapping_set_error) and are cleared as a
side-effect of filemap_check_errors (as you noted yesterday). This
model really sucks for userland.Only the first task to call fsync (or msync or fdatasync) will see the
error. Any subsequent task calling fsync on a file will get back 0
(unless another writeback error occurs in the interim). If I have
several tasks writing to a file and calling fsync to ensure that their
writes got stored, then I need to have them coordinate with one
another. That's difficult enough, but in a world of containerized
setups that coordination may even not be possible.But wait...it gets worse!
The calls to filemap_check_errors can be buried pretty far down in the
call stack, and there are internal callers of filemap_write_and_wait
and the like that also end up clearing those errors. Many of those
callers ignore the error return from that function or return it to
userland at nonsensical times (e.g. truncate() or stat()). If I get
back -EIO on a truncate, there is no reason to think that it was
because some previous writeback failed, and a subsequent fsync() will
(incorrectly) return 0.This pile aims to do three things:
1) ensure that when a writeback error occurs that that error will be
reported to userland on a subsequent fsync/fdatasync/msync call,
regardless of what internal callers are doing2) report writeback errors on all file descriptions that were open at
the time that the error occurred. This is a user-visible change,
but I think most applications are written to assume this behavior
anyway. Those that aren't are unlikely to be hurt by it.3) document what filesystems should do when there is a writeback
error. Today, there is very little consistency between them, and a
lot of cargo-cult copying. We need to make it very clear what
filesystems should do in this situation.To achieve this, the set adds a new data type (errseq_t) and then
builds new writeback error tracking infrastructure around that. Once
all of that is in place, we change the filesystems to use the new
infrastructure for reporting wb errors to userland.Note that this is just the initial foray into cleaning up this mess.
There is a lot of work remaining here:1) convert the rest of the filesystems in a similar fashion. Once the
initial set is in, then I think most other fs' will be fairly
simple to convert. Hopefully most of those can in via individual
filesystem trees.2) convert internal waiters on writeback to use errseq_t for
detecting errors instead of relying on the AS_* flags. I have some
draft patches for this for ext4, but they are not quite ready for
prime time yet.This was a discussion topic this year at LSF/MM too. If you're
interested in the gory details, LWN has some good articles about this:https://lwn.net/Articles/718734/
https://lwn.net/Articles/724307/"* tag 'for-linus-v4.13-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
btrfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting on fsync
xfs: minimal conversion to errseq_t writeback error reporting
ext4: use errseq_t based error handling for reporting data writeback errors
fs: convert __generic_file_fsync to use errseq_t based reporting
block: convert to errseq_t based writeback error tracking
dax: set errors in mapping when writeback fails
Documentation: flesh out the section in vfs.txt on storing and reporting writeback errors
mm: set both AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC and errseq_t in mapping_set_error
fs: new infrastructure for writeback error handling and reporting
lib: add errseq_t type and infrastructure for handling it
mm: don't TestClearPageError in __filemap_fdatawait_range
mm: clear AS_EIO/AS_ENOSPC when writeback initiation fails
jbd2: don't clear and reset errors after waiting on writeback
buffer: set errors in mapping at the time that the error occurs
fs: check for writeback errors after syncing out buffers in generic_file_fsync
buffer: use mapping_set_error instead of setting the flag
mm: fix mapping_set_error call in me_pagecache_dirty
06 Jul, 2017
1 commit
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Most filesystems currently use mapping_set_error and
filemap_check_errors for setting and reporting/clearing writeback errors
at the mapping level. filemap_check_errors is indirectly called from
most of the filemap_fdatawait_* functions and from
filemap_write_and_wait*. These functions are called from all sorts of
contexts to wait on writeback to finish -- e.g. mostly in fsync, but
also in truncate calls, getattr, etc.The non-fsync callers are problematic. We should be reporting writeback
errors during fsync, but many places spread over the tree clear out
errors before they can be properly reported, or report errors at
nonsensical times.If I get -EIO on a stat() call, there is no reason for me to assume that
it is because some previous writeback failed. The fact that it also
clears out the error such that a subsequent fsync returns 0 is a bug,
and a nasty one since that's potentially silent data corruption.This patch adds a small bit of new infrastructure for setting and
reporting errors during address_space writeback. While the above was my
original impetus for adding this, I think it's also the case that
current fsync semantics are just problematic for userland. Most
applications that call fsync do so to ensure that the data they wrote
has hit the backing store.In the case where there are multiple writers to the file at the same
time, this is really hard to determine. The first one to call fsync will
see any stored error, and the rest get back 0. The processes with open
fds may not be associated with one another in any way. They could even
be in different containers, so ensuring coordination between all fsync
callers is not really an option.One way to remedy this would be to track what file descriptor was used
to dirty the file, but that's rather cumbersome and would likely be
slow. However, there is a simpler way to improve the semantics here
without incurring too much overhead.This set adds an errseq_t to struct address_space, and a corresponding
one is added to struct file. Writeback errors are recorded in the
mapping's errseq_t, and the one in struct file is used as the "since"
value.This changes the semantics of the Linux fsync implementation such that
applications can now use it to determine whether there were any
writeback errors since fsync(fd) was last called (or since the file was
opened in the case of fsync having never been called).Note that those writeback errors may have occurred when writing data
that was dirtied via an entirely different fd, but that's the case now
with the current mapping_set_error/filemap_check_error infrastructure.
This will at least prevent you from getting a false report of success.The new behavior is still consistent with the POSIX spec, and is more
reliable for application developers. This patch just adds some basic
infrastructure for doing this, and ensures that the f_wb_err "cursor"
is properly set when a file is opened. Later patches will change the
existing code to use this new infrastructure for reporting errors at
fsync time.Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
28 Jun, 2017
1 commit
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Define a set of write life time hints:
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET No hint information set
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE No hints about write life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT Data written has a short life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM Data written has a medium life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG Data written has a long life time
RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME Data written has an extremely long life timeThe intent is for these values to be relative to each other, no
absolute meaning should be attached to these flag names.Add an fcntl interface for querying these flags, and also for
setting them as well:F_GET_RW_HINT Returns the read/write hint set on the
underlying inode.F_SET_RW_HINT Set one of the above write hints on the
underlying inode.F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT Returns the read/write hint set on the
file descriptor.F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT Set one of the above write hints on the
file descriptor.The user passes in a 64-bit pointer to get/set these values, and
the interface returns 0/-1 on success/error.Sample program testing/implementing basic setting/getting of write
hints is below.Add support for storing the write life time hint in the inode flags
and in struct file as well, and pass them to the kiocb flags. If
both a file and its corresponding inode has a write hint, then we
use the one in the file, if available. The file hint can be used
for sync/direct IO, for buffered writeback only the inode hint
is available.This is in preparation for utilizing these hints in the block layer,
to guide on-media data placement./*
* writehint.c: get or set an inode write hint
*/
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include
#include#ifndef F_GET_RW_HINT
#define F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE 1024
#define F_GET_RW_HINT (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 11)
#define F_SET_RW_HINT (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 12)
#endifstatic char *str[] = { "RWF_WRITE_LIFE_NOT_SET", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_NONE",
"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_SHORT", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_MEDIUM",
"RWH_WRITE_LIFE_LONG", "RWH_WRITE_LIFE_EXTREME" };int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
uint64_t hint;
int fd, ret;if (argc < 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "%s: file \n", argv[0]);
return 1;
}fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
if (fd < 0) {
perror("open");
return 2;
}if (argc > 2) {
hint = atoi(argv[2]);
ret = fcntl(fd, F_SET_RW_HINT, &hint);
if (ret < 0) {
perror("fcntl: F_SET_RW_HINT");
return 4;
}
}ret = fcntl(fd, F_GET_RW_HINT, &hint);
if (ret < 0) {
perror("fcntl: F_GET_RW_HINT");
return 3;
}printf("%s: hint %s\n", argv[1], str[hint]);
close(fd);
return 0;
}Reviewed-by: Martin K. Petersen
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe
13 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Making sure that something like a referral point won't end up as pwd
or root.The main part is the last commit (fixing mntns_install()); that one
fixes a hard-to-hit race. The fchdir() commit is making fchdir(2) a
bit more robust - it should be impossible to get opened files (even
O_PATH ones) for referral points in the first place, so the existing
checks are OK, but checking the same thing as in chdir(2) is just as
cheap.The path_init() commit removes a redundant check that shouldn't have
been there in the first place"* 'work.sane_pwd' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
make sure that mntns_install() doesn't end up with referral for root
path_init(): don't bother with checking MAY_EXEC for LOOKUP_ROOT
make sure that fchdir() won't accept referral points, etc.
11 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull overlayfs update from Miklos Szeredi:
"The biggest part of this is making st_dev/st_ino on the overlay behave
like a normal filesystem (i.e. st_ino doesn't change on copy up,
st_dev is the same for all files and directories). Currently this only
works if all layers are on the same filesystem, but future work will
move the general case towards more sane behavior.There are also miscellaneous fixes, including fixes to handling
append-only files. There's a small change in the VFS, but that only
has an effect on overlayfs, since otherwise file->f_path.dentry->inode
and file_inode(file) are always the same"* 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs:
ovl: update documentation w.r.t. constant inode numbers
ovl: persistent inode numbers for upper hardlinks
ovl: merge getattr for dir and nondir
ovl: constant st_ino/st_dev across copy up
ovl: persistent inode number for directories
ovl: set the ORIGIN type flag
ovl: lookup non-dir copy-up-origin by file handle
ovl: use an auxiliary var for overlay root entry
ovl: store file handle of lower inode on copy up
ovl: check if all layers are on the same fs
ovl: do not set overlay.opaque on non-dir create
ovl: check IS_APPEND() on real upper inode
vfs: ftruncate check IS_APPEND() on real upper inode
ovl: Use designated initializers
ovl: lockdep annotate of nested stacked overlayfs inode lock
10 May, 2017
1 commit
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted bits and pieces from various people. No common topic in this
pile, sorry"* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs/affs: add rename exchange
fs/affs: add rename2 to prepare multiple methods
Make stat/lstat/fstatat pass AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT to vfs_statx()
fs: don't set *REFERENCED on single use objects
fs: compat: Remove warning from COMPATIBLE_IOCTL
remove pointless extern of atime_need_update_rcu()
fs: completely ignore unknown open flags
fs: add a VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
fs: remove _submit_bh()
fs: constify tree_descr arrays passed to simple_fill_super()
fs: drop duplicate header percpu-rwsem.h
fs/affs: bugfix: Write files greater than page size on OFS
fs/affs: bugfix: enable writes on OFS disks
fs/affs: remove node generation check
fs/affs: import amigaffs.h
fs/affs: bugfix: make symbolic links work again
27 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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Currently we just stash anything we got into file->f_flags, and the
report it in fcntl(F_GETFD). This patch just clears out all unknown
flags so that we don't pass them to the fs or report them.Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
22 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
20 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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ftruncate an overlayfs inode was checking IS_APPEND() on
overlay inode, but overlay inode does not have the S_APPEND flag.Check IS_APPEND() on real upper inode instead.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
18 Apr, 2017
1 commit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
07 Feb, 2017
2 commits
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Before calling write f_ops, call file_start_write() instead
of sb_start_write().Replace {sb,file}_start_write() for {copy,clone}_file_range() and
for fallocate().Beyond correct semantics, this avoids freeze protection to sb when
operating on special inodes, such as fallocate() on a blockdev.Reviewed-by: Jan Kara
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi -
There was an obscure use case of fallocate of directory inode
in the vfs helper with the comment:
"Let individual file system decide if it supports preallocation
for directories or not."But there is no in-tree file system that implements fallocate
for directory operations.Deny an attempt to fallocate a directory with EISDIR error.
This change is needed prior to converting sb_start_write()
to file_start_write(), so freeze protection is correctly
handled for cases of fallocate file and blockdev.Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
25 Dec, 2016
1 commit
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This was entirely automated, using the script by Al:
PATT='^[[:blank:]]*#[[:blank:]]*include[[:blank:]]*'
sed -i -e "s!$PATT!#include !" \
$(git grep -l "$PATT"|grep -v ^include/linux/uaccess.h)to do the replacement at the end of the merge window.
Requested-by: Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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…kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs
< XFS has gained super CoW powers! >
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
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|| ||Pull XFS support for shared data extents from Dave Chinner:
"This is the second part of the XFS updates for this merge cycle. This
pullreq contains the new shared data extents feature for XFS.Given the complexity and size of this change I am expecting - like the
addition of reverse mapping last cycle - that there will be some
follow-up bug fixes and cleanups around the -rc3 stage for issues that
I'm sure will show up once the code hits a wider userbase.What it is:
At the most basic level we are simply adding shared data extents to
XFS - i.e. a single extent on disk can now have multiple owners. To do
this we have to add new on-disk features to both track the shared
extents and the number of times they've been shared. This is done by
the new "refcount" btree that sits in every allocation group. When we
share or unshare an extent, this tree gets updated.Along with this new tree, the reverse mapping tree needs to be updated
to track each owner or a shared extent. This also needs to be updated
ever share/unshare operation. These interactions at extent allocation
and freeing time have complex ordering and recovery constraints, so
there's a significant amount of new intent-based transaction code to
ensure that operations are performed atomically from both the runtime
and integrity/crash recovery perspectives.We also need to break sharing when writes hit a shared extent - this
is where the new copy-on-write implementation comes in. We allocate
new storage and copy the original data along with the overwrite data
into the new location. We only do this for data as we don't share
metadata at all - each inode has it's own metadata that tracks the
shared data extents, the extents undergoing CoW and it's own private
extents.Of course, being XFS, nothing is simple - we use delayed allocation
for CoW similar to how we use it for normal writes. ENOSPC is a
significant issue here - we build on the reservation code added in
4.8-rc1 with the reverse mapping feature to ensure we don't get
spurious ENOSPC issues part way through a CoW operation. These
mechanisms also help minimise fragmentation due to repeated CoW
operations. To further reduce fragmentation overhead, we've also
introduced a CoW extent size hint, which indicates how large a region
we should allocate when we execute a CoW operation.With all this functionality in place, we can hook up .copy_file_range,
.clone_file_range and .dedupe_file_range and we gain all the
capabilities of reflink and other vfs provided functionality that
enable manipulation to shared extents. We also added a fallocate mode
that explicitly unshares a range of a file, which we implemented as an
explicit CoW of all the shared extents in a file.As such, it's a huge chunk of new functionality with new on-disk
format features and internal infrastructure. It warns at mount time as
an experimental feature and that it may eat data (as we do with all
new on-disk features until they stabilise). We have not released
userspace suport for it yet - userspace support currently requires
download from Darrick's xfsprogs repo and build from source, so the
access to this feature is really developer/tester only at this point.
Initial userspace support will be released at the same time the kernel
with this code in it is released.The new code causes 5-6 new failures with xfstests - these aren't
serious functional failures but things the output of tests changing
slightly due to perturbations in layouts, space usage, etc. OTOH,
we've added 150+ new tests to xfstests that specifically exercise this
new functionality so it's got far better test coverage than any
functionality we've previously added to XFS.Darrick has done a pretty amazing job getting us to this stage, and
special mention also needs to go to Christoph (review, testing,
improvements and bug fixes) and Brian (caught several intricate bugs
during review) for the effort they've also put in.Summary:
- unshare range (FALLOC_FL_UNSHARE) support for fallocate
- copy-on-write extent size hints (FS_XFLAG_COWEXTSIZE) for fsxattr
interface- shared extent support for XFS
- copy-on-write support for shared extents
- copy_file_range support
- clone_file_range support (implements reflink)
- dedupe_file_range support
- defrag support for reverse mapping enabled filesystems"
* tag 'xfs-reflink-for-linus-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (71 commits)
xfs: convert COW blocks to real blocks before unwritten extent conversion
xfs: rework refcount cow recovery error handling
xfs: clear reflink flag if setting realtime flag
xfs: fix error initialization
xfs: fix label inaccuracies
xfs: remove isize check from unshare operation
xfs: reduce stack usage of _reflink_clear_inode_flag
xfs: check inode reflink flag before calling reflink functions
xfs: implement swapext for rmap filesystems
xfs: refactor swapext code
xfs: various swapext cleanups
xfs: recognize the reflink feature bit
xfs: simulate per-AG reservations being critically low
xfs: don't mix reflink and DAX mode for now
xfs: check for invalid inode reflink flags
xfs: set a default CoW extent size of 32 blocks
xfs: convert unwritten status of reverse mappings for shared files
xfs: use interval query for rmap alloc operations on shared files
xfs: add shared rmap map/unmap/convert log item types
xfs: increase log reservations for reflink
...
12 Oct, 2016
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After much discussion, it seems that the fallocate feature flag
FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE maps nicely to SCSI WRITE SAME; and the feature
FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE maps nicely to the devices that have been whitelisted
for zeroing SCSI UNMAP. Punch still requires that FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE is
set. A length that goes past the end of the device will be clamped to the
device size if KEEP_SIZE is set; or will return -EINVAL if not. Both
start and length must be aligned to the device's logical block size.Since the semantics of fallocate are fairly well established already, wire
up the two pieces. The other fallocate variants (collapse range, insert
range, and allocate blocks) are not supported.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147518379992.22791.8849838163218235007.stgit@birch.djwong.org
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche
Cc: Theodore Ts'o
Cc: Martin K. Petersen
Cc: Mike Snitzer # tweaked header
Cc: Brian Foster
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Hannes Reinecke
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Oct, 2016
1 commit
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Add a new fallocate mode flag that explicitly unshares blocks on
filesystems that support such features. The new flag can only
be used with an allocate-mode fallocate call.Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong
16 Sep, 2016
2 commits
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The problem with writecount is: we want consistent handling of it for
underlying filesystems as well as overlayfs. Making sure i_writecount is
correct on all layers is difficult. Instead this patch makes sure that
when write access is acquired, it's always done on the underlying writable
layer (called the upper layer). We must also make sure to look at the
writecount on this layer when checking for conflicting leases.Open for write already updates the upper layer's writecount. Leaving only
truncate.For truncate copy up must happen before get_write_access() so that the
writecount is updated on the upper layer. Problem with this is if
something fails after that, then copy-up was done needlessly. E.g. if
break_lease() was interrupted. Probably not a big deal in practice.Another interesting case is if there's a denywrite on a lower file that is
then opened for write or truncated. With this patch these will succeed,
which is somewhat counterintuitive. But I think it's still acceptable,
considering that the copy-up does actually create a different file, so the
old, denywrite mapping won't be touched.On non-overlayfs d_real() is an identity function and d_real_inode() is
equivalent to d_inode() so this patch doesn't change behavior in that case.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" -
This patch allows flock, posix locks, ofd locks and leases to work
correctly on overlayfs.Instead of using the underlying inode for storing lock context use the
overlay inode. This allows locks to be persistent across copy-up.This is done by introducing locks_inode() helper and using it instead of
file_inode() to get the inode in locking code. For non-overlayfs the two
are equivalent, except for an extra pointer dereference in locks_inode().Since lock operations are in "struct file_operations" we must also make
sure not to call underlying filesystem's lock operations. Introcude a
super block flag MS_NOREMOTELOCK to this effect.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Acked-by: Jeff Layton
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields"
07 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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Pull binfmt_misc update from James Bottomley:
"This update is to allow architecture emulation containers to function
such that the emulation binary can be housed outside the container
itself. The container and fs parts both have acks from relevant
experts.To use the new feature you have to add an F option to your binfmt_misc
configuration"From the docs:
"The usual behaviour of binfmt_misc is to spawn the binary lazily when
the misc format file is invoked. However, this doesn't work very well
in the face of mount namespaces and changeroots, so the F mode opens
the binary as soon as the emulation is installed and uses the opened
image to spawn the emulator, meaning it is always available once
installed, regardless of how the environment changes"* tag 'binfmt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/binfmt_misc:
binfmt_misc: add F option description to documentation
binfmt_misc: add persistent opened binary handler for containers
fs: add filp_clone_open API
30 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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The two methods essentially do the same: find the real dentry/inode
belonging to an overlay dentry. The difference is in the usage:vfs_open() uses ->d_select_inode() and expects the function to perform
copy-up if necessary based on the open flags argument.file_dentry() uses ->d_real() passing in the overlay dentry as well as the
underlying inode.vfs_rename() uses ->d_select_inode() but passes zero flags. ->d_real()
with a zero inode would have worked just as well here.This patch merges the functionality of ->d_select_inode() into ->d_real()
by adding an 'open_flags' argument to the latter.[Al Viro] Make the signature of d_real() match that of ->d_real() again.
And constify the inode argument, while we are at it.Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
18 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull 'struct path' constification update from Al Viro:
"'struct path' is passed by reference to a bunch of Linux security
methods; in theory, there's nothing to stop them from modifying the
damn thing and LSM community being what it is, sooner or later some
enterprising soul is going to decide that it's a good idea.Let's remove the temptation and constify all of those..."
* 'work.const-path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
constify ima_d_path()
constify security_sb_pivotroot()
constify security_path_chroot()
constify security_path_{link,rename}
apparmor: remove useless checks for NULL ->mnt
constify security_path_{mkdir,mknod,symlink}
constify security_path_{unlink,rmdir}
apparmor: constify common_perm_...()
apparmor: constify aa_path_link()
apparmor: new helper - common_path_perm()
constify chmod_common/security_path_chmod
constify security_sb_mount()
constify chown_common/security_path_chown
tomoyo: constify assorted struct path *
apparmor_path_truncate(): path->mnt is never NULL
constify vfs_truncate()
constify security_path_truncate()
[apparmor] constify struct path * in a bunch of helpers
17 May, 2016
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Backmerge to resolve a conflict in ovl_lookup_real();
"ovl_lookup_real(): use lookup_one_len_unlocked()" instead,
but it was too late in the cycle to rebase.
11 May, 2016
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Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Cc: # v4.2+
03 May, 2016
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same as read() on regular files has, and for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
31 Mar, 2016
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I need an API that allows me to obtain a clone of the current file
pointer to pass in to an exec handler. I've labelled this as an
internal API because I can't see how it would be useful outside of the
fs subsystem. The use case will be a persistent binfmt_misc handler.Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Acked-by: Jan Kara
28 Mar, 2016
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
23 Mar, 2016
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This commit fixes the following security hole affecting systems where
all of the following conditions are fulfilled:- The fs.suid_dumpable sysctl is set to 2.
- The kernel.core_pattern sysctl's value starts with "/". (Systems
where kernel.core_pattern starts with "|/" are not affected.)
- Unprivileged user namespace creation is permitted. (This is
true on Linux >=3.8, but some distributions disallow it by
default using a distro patch.)Under these conditions, if a program executes under secure exec rules,
causing it to run with the SUID_DUMP_ROOT flag, then unshares its user
namespace, changes its root directory and crashes, the coredump will be
written using fsuid=0 and a path derived from kernel.core_pattern - but
this path is interpreted relative to the root directory of the process,
allowing the attacker to control where a coredump will be written with
root privileges.To fix the security issue, always interpret core_pattern for dumps that
are written under SUID_DUMP_ROOT relative to the root directory of init.Signed-off-by: Jann Horn
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman"
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Jan, 2016
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parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
04 Jan, 2016
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
10 Jul, 2015
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Today proc and sysfs do not contain any executable files. Several
applications today mount proc or sysfs without noexec and nosuid and
then depend on there being no exectuables files on proc or sysfs.
Having any executable files show on proc or sysfs would cause
a user space visible regression, and most likely security problems.Therefore commit to never allowing executables on proc and sysfs by
adding a new flag to mark them as filesystems without executables and
enforce that flag.Test the flag where MNT_NOEXEC is tested today, so that the only user
visible effect will be that exectuables will be treated as if the
execute bit is cleared.The filesystems proc and sysfs do not currently incoporate any
executable files so this does not result in any user visible effects.This makes it unnecessary to vet changes to proc and sysfs tightly for
adding exectuable files or changes to chattr that would modify
existing files, as no matter what the individual file say they will
not be treated as exectuable files by the vfs.Not having to vet changes to closely is important as without this we
are only one proc_create call (or another goof up in the
implementation of notify_change) from having problematic executables
on proc. Those mistakes are all too easy to make and would create
a situation where there are security issues or the assumptions of
some program having to be broken (and cause userspace regressions).Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"
24 Jun, 2015
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Comment in include/linux/security.h says that ->inode_killpriv() should
be called when setuid bit is being removed and that similar security
labels (in fact this applies only to file capabilities) should be
removed at this time as well. However we don't call ->inode_killpriv()
when we remove suid bit on truncate.We fix the problem by calling ->inode_need_killpriv() and subsequently
->inode_killpriv() on truncate the same way as we do it on file write.After this patch there's only one user of should_remove_suid() - ocfs2 -
and indeed it's buggy because it doesn't call ->inode_killpriv() on
write. However fixing it is difficult because of special locking
constraints.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
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Turn
d_path(&file->f_path, ...);
into
file_path(file, ...);Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
19 Jun, 2015
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Make file->f_path always point to the overlay dentry so that the path in
/proc/pid/fd is correct and to ensure that label-based LSMs have access to the
overlay as well as the underlay (path-based LSMs probably don't need it).Using my union testsuite to set things up, before the patch I see:
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5 /a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381 Links: 1
...
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 13381 Links: 1
...After the patch:
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# bash 5 /mnt/a/foo107
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat /mnt/a/foo107
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346 Links: 1
...
[root@andromeda union-testsuite]# stat -L /proc/$$/fd/5
...
Device: 23h/35d Inode: 40346 Links: 1
...Note the change in where /proc/$$/fd/5 points to in the ls command. It was
pointing to /a/foo107 (which doesn't exist) and now points to /mnt/a/foo107
(which is correct).The inode accessed, however, is the lower layer. The union layer is on device
25h/37d and the upper layer on 24h/36d.Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
11 May, 2015
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Make use of d_backing_inode() in pathwalk to gain access to an
inode or dentry that's on a lower layer.Signed-off-by: David Howells
24 Apr, 2015
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Pull xfs update from Dave Chinner:
"This update contains:- RENAME_WHITEOUT support
- conversion of per-cpu superblock accounting to use generic counters
- new inode mmap lock so that we can lock page faults out of
truncate, hole punch and other direct extent manipulation functions
to avoid racing mmap writes from causing data corruption- rework of direct IO submission and completion to solve data
corruption issue when running concurrent extending DIO writes.
Also solves problem of running IO completion transactions in
interrupt context during size extending AIO writes.- FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE support for inserting holes into a file via
direct extent manipulation to avoid needing to copy data within the
file- attribute block header field overflow fix for 64k block size
filesystems- Lots of changes to log messaging to be more informative and concise
when errors occur. Also prevent a lot of unnecessary log spamming
due to cascading failures in error conditions.- lots of cleanups and bug fixes
One thing of note is the direct IO fixes that we merged last week
after the window opened. Even though a little late, they fix a user
reported data corruption and have been pretty well tested. I figured
there was not much point waiting another 2 weeks for -rc1 to be
released just so I could send them to you..."* tag 'xfs-for-linus-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dgc/linux-xfs: (49 commits)
xfs: using generic_file_direct_write() is unnecessary
xfs: direct IO EOF zeroing needs to drain AIO
xfs: DIO write completion size updates race
xfs: DIO writes within EOF don't need an ioend
xfs: handle DIO overwrite EOF update completion correctly
xfs: DIO needs an ioend for writes
xfs: move DIO mapping size calculation
xfs: factor DIO write mapping from get_blocks
xfs: unlock i_mutex in xfs_break_layouts
xfs: kill unnecessary firstused overflow check on attr3 leaf removal
xfs: use larger in-core attr firstused field and detect overflow
xfs: pass attr geometry to attr leaf header conversion functions
xfs: disallow ro->rw remount on norecovery mount
xfs: xfs_shift_file_space can be static
xfs: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate
fs: Add support FALLOC_FL_INSERT_RANGE for fallocate
xfs: Fix incorrect positive ENOMEM return
xfs: xfs_mru_cache_insert() should use GFP_NOFS
xfs: %pF is only for function pointers
xfs: fix shadow warning in xfs_da3_root_split()
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12 Apr, 2015
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no remaining users
Signed-off-by: Al Viro