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Some identifiers have different names between their prototypes
and the kernel-doc markup.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Better to unregister the file system before destroying the kmem_cache
cache of the inodes, so that the inodes are freed before we are trying
to destroy it. Otherwise, kmem_cache yells that some objects are live.
Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <dan@kernelim.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
__rpc_depopulate(gssd_dentry) was lost on error path
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: commit 4b9a445e3e ("sunrpc: create a new dummy pipe for gssd to hold open")
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
blocking_notifier_chain_cond_register() does not consider system_booting
state, which is the only difference between this function and
blocking_notifier_cain_register(). This can be a bug and is a piece of
duplicate code.
Delete blocking_notifier_chain_cond_register()
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1568861888-34045-4-git-send-email-nixiaoming@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Nadia Derbey <Nadia.Derbey@bull.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Sam Protsenko <semen.protsenko@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull vfs mount updates from Al Viro:
"The first part of mount updates.
Convert filesystems to use the new mount API"
* 'work.mount0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
mnt_init(): call shmem_init() unconditionally
constify ksys_mount() string arguments
don't bother with registering rootfs
init_rootfs(): don't bother with init_ramfs_fs()
vfs: Convert smackfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert selinuxfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert securityfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert apparmorfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert openpromfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert xenfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert gadgetfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert oprofilefs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert ibmasmfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert qib_fs/ipathfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert efivarfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert configfs to use the new mount API
vfs: Convert binfmt_misc to use the new mount API
convenience helper: get_tree_single()
convenience helper get_tree_nodev()
vfs: Kill sget_userns()
...
This will allow generating fsnotify delete events after the
fsnotify_nameremove() hook is removed from d_delete().
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Convert the rpc_pipefs filesystem to the new internal mount API as the old
one will be obsoleted and removed. This allows greater flexibility in
communication of mount parameters between userspace, the VFS and the
filesystem.
See Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt for more information.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
cc: Anna Schumaker <anna.schumaker@netapp.com>
cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE macro to simplify the code.
Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Misc bits and pieces not fitting into anything more specific"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: delete unnecessary assignment in vfs_listxattr
Documentation: filesystems: update filesystem locking documentation
vfs: namei: use path_equal() in follow_dotdot()
fs.h: fix outdated comment about file flags
__inode_security_revalidate() never gets NULL opt_dentry
make xattr_getsecurity() static
vfat: simplify checks in vfat_lookup()
get rid of dead code in d_find_alias()
it's SB_BORN, not MS_BORN...
msdos_rmdir(): kill BS comment
remove rpc_rmdir()
fs: avoid fdput() after failed fdget() in vfs_dedupe_file_range()
if we ever hit rpc_gssd_dummy_depopulate() dentry passed to
it has refcount equal to 1. __rpc_rmpipe() drops it and
dput() done after that hits an already freed dentry.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Prefer the direct use of octal for permissions.
Done with checkpatch -f --types=SYMBOLIC_PERMS --fix-inplace
and some typing.
Miscellanea:
o Whitespace neatening around these conversions.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:
for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
done
with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.
NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.
The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.
Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Publishing of net pointer is not safe, use net->ns.inum as net ID
[ 171.391947] RPC: created new rpcb local clients
(rpcb_local_clnt: ..., rpcb_local_clnt4: ...) for net f00001e7
[ 171.767188] NFSD: starting 90-second grace period (net f00001e7)
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Anna Schumaker <Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com>
CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.
CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.
This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.
Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Today what is normally called data (the mount options) is not passed
to fill_super through mount_ns.
Pass the mount options and the namespace separately to mount_ns so
that filesystems such as proc that have mount options, can use
mount_ns.
Pass the user namespace to mount_ns so that the standard permission
check that verifies the mounter has permissions over the namespace can
be performed in mount_ns instead of in each filesystems .mount method.
Thus removing the duplication between mqueuefs and proc in terms of
permission checks. The extra permission check does not currently
affect the rpc_pipefs filesystem and the nfsd filesystem as those
filesystems do not currently allow unprivileged mounts. Without
unpvileged mounts it is guaranteed that the caller has already passed
capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) which guarantees extra permission check will
pass.
Update rpc_pipefs and the nfsd filesystem to ensure that the network
namespace reference is always taken in fill_super and always put in kill_sb
so that the logic is simpler and so that errors originating inside of
fill_super do not cause a network namespace leak.
Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} macros were introduced *long* time
ago with promise that one day it will be possible to implement page
cache with bigger chunks than PAGE_SIZE.
This promise never materialized. And unlikely will.
We have many places where PAGE_CACHE_SIZE assumed to be equal to
PAGE_SIZE. And it's constant source of confusion on whether
PAGE_CACHE_* or PAGE_* constant should be used in a particular case,
especially on the border between fs and mm.
Global switching to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE != PAGE_SIZE would cause to much
breakage to be doable.
Let's stop pretending that pages in page cache are special. They are
not.
The changes are pretty straight-forward:
- <foo> << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- <foo> >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT) -> <foo>;
- PAGE_CACHE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN} -> PAGE_{SIZE,SHIFT,MASK,ALIGN};
- page_cache_get() -> get_page();
- page_cache_release() -> put_page();
This patch contains automated changes generated with coccinelle using
script below. For some reason, coccinelle doesn't patch header files.
I've called spatch for them manually.
The only adjustment after coccinelle is revert of changes to
PAGE_CAHCE_ALIGN definition: we are going to drop it later.
There are few places in the code where coccinelle didn't reach. I'll
fix them manually in a separate patch. Comments and documentation also
will be addressed with the separate patch.
virtual patch
@@
expression E;
@@
- E << (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
expression E;
@@
- E >> (PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)
+ E
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT
+ PAGE_SHIFT
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
+ PAGE_SIZE
@@
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_MASK
+ PAGE_MASK
@@
expression E;
@@
- PAGE_CACHE_ALIGN(E)
+ PAGE_ALIGN(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_get(E)
+ get_page(E)
@@
expression E;
@@
- page_cache_release(E)
+ put_page(E)
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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 <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Mark those kmem allocations that are known to be easily triggered from
userspace as __GFP_ACCOUNT/SLAB_ACCOUNT, which makes them accounted to
memcg. For the list, see below:
- threadinfo
- task_struct
- task_delay_info
- pid
- cred
- mm_struct
- vm_area_struct and vm_region (nommu)
- anon_vma and anon_vma_chain
- signal_struct
- sighand_struct
- fs_struct
- files_struct
- fdtable and fdtable->full_fds_bits
- dentry and external_name
- inode for all filesystems. This is the most tedious part, because
most filesystems overwrite the alloc_inode method.
The list is far from complete, so feel free to add more objects.
Nevertheless, it should be close to "account everything" approach and
keep most workloads within bounds. Malevolent users will be able to
breach the limit, but this was possible even with the former "account
everything" approach (simply because it did not account everything in
fact).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
socket inodes and sunrpc filesystems - inodes owned by that code
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions.
The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
// <smpl>
@@
type T;
@@
- (T *)
(\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|
kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...))
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Currently, it could leak dentry references in some cases. Make sure
we clean up properly.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
rpc.gssd expects to see an "info" file in each clntXX dir. Since adding
the dummy gssd pipe, users that run rpc.gssd see a lot of these messages
spamming the logs:
rpc.gssd[508]: ERROR: can't open /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs/gssd/clntXX/info: No such file or directory
rpc.gssd[508]: ERROR: failed to read service info
Add a dummy gssd/clntXX/info file to help silence these messages.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
In the event that we create the gssd/clntXX dir, but the pipe creation
subsequently fails, then we should remove the clntXX dir before
returning.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that we have a more reliable method to tell if gssd is running, we
can replace the sn->gssd_running flag with a function that will query to
see if it's up and running.
There's also no need to attempt an upcall that we know will fail, so
just return -EACCES if gssd isn't running. Finally, fix the warn_gss()
message not to claim that that the upcall timed out since we don't
necesarily perform one now when gssd isn't running, and remove the
extraneous newline from the message.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
rpc.gssd will naturally hold open any pipe named */clnt*/gssd that shows
up under rpc_pipefs. That behavior gives us a reliable mechanism to tell
whether it's actually running or not.
Create a new toplevel "gssd" directory in rpc_pipefs when it's mounted.
Under that directory create another directory called "clntXX", and then
within that a pipe called "gssd".
We'll never send an upcall along that pipe, and any downcall written to
it will just return -EINVAL.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The current system requires everyone to set up notifiers, manage directory
locking, etc.
What we really want to do is have the rpc_client create its directory,
and then create all the entries.
This patch will allow the RPCSEC_GSS and NFS code to register all the
objects that they want to have appear in the directory, and then have
the sunrpc code call them back to actually create/destroy their pipefs
dentries when the rpc_client creates/destroys the parent.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
It just duplicates the cl_program->name, and is not used in any fast
paths where the extra dereference will cause a hit.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that Al has fixed simple_lookup to account for the case where
sb->s_d_op is set, there's no need to keep our own special lookup op.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
"O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
sunrpc: now we can just set ->s_d_op
cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set ->s_d_op
configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
__rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
Hi Jeff,
FYI, there are new sparse warnings show up in
tree: git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs.git nfs-for-next
head: 296afe1f58d55fd56ed85daaafafcfee39f59ece
commit: 76fa666579 [2/5] rpc_pipe: set dentry operations at d_alloc time
>> net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c:496:31: sparse: symbol 'rpc_dir_inode_operations' was not declared. Should it be static?
Please consider folding the attached diff :-)
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Currently the way these get set is a little convoluted. If the dentry is
allocated via lookup from userland, then it gets set by simple_lookup.
If it gets allocated when the kernel is populating the directory, then
it gets set via __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive, which has to check
whether they might already be set. Between both of these, this ensures
that all dentries have their d_op pointer set.
Instead of doing that, just have them set at d_alloc time by pointing
sb->s_d_op at them. With that change, we no longer want the lookup op
to set them, so we must move to using our own lookup routine.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
CPU#0 CPU#1
----------------------------- -----------------------------
rpc_kill_sb
sn->pipefs_sb = NULL rpc_release_client
(UMOUNT_EVENT) rpc_free_auth
rpc_pipefs_event
rpc_get_client_for_event
!atomic_inc_not_zero(cl_count)
<skip the client>
atomic_inc(cl_count)
rpc_free_client
rpc_clnt_remove_pipedir
<skip client dir removing>
To fix this, this patch does the following:
1) Calls RPC_PIPEFS_UMOUNT notification with sn->pipefs_sb_lock being held.
2) Removes SUNRPC client from the list AFTER pipes destroying.
3) Doesn't hold RPC client on notification: if client in the list, then it
can't be destroyed while sn->pipefs_sb_lock in hold by notification caller.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Below are races, when RPC client can be created without PiepFS dentries
CPU#0 CPU#1
----------------------------- -----------------------------
rpc_new_client rpc_fill_super
rpc_setup_pipedir
mutex_lock(&sn->pipefs_sb_lock)
rpc_get_sb_net == NULL
(no per-net PipeFS superblock)
sn->pipefs_sb = sb;
notifier_call_chain(MOUNT)
(client is not in the list)
rpc_register_client
(client without pipes dentries)
To fix this patch:
1) makes PipeFS mount notification call with pipefs_sb_lock being held.
2) releases pipefs_sb_lock on new SUNRPC client creation only after
registration.
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
This seems to have been overlooked when we did the namespace
conversion. If a container is running a legacy version of rpc.gssd
then it will be disrupted if the global 'pipe_version' is set by a
container running the new version of rpc.gssd.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Recent changes to the NFS security flavour negotiation mean that
we have a stronger dependency on rpc.gssd. If the latter is not
running, because the user failed to start it, then we time out
and mark the container as not having an instance. We then
use that information to time out faster the next time.
If, on the other hand, the rpc.gssd successfully binds to an rpc_pipe,
then we mark the container as having an rpc.gssd instance.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
I had assumed that the only use of module aliases for filesystems
prior to "fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules."
was in request_module. It turns out I was wrong. At least mkinitcpio
in Arch linux uses these aliases.
So readd the preexising aliases, to keep from breaking userspace.
Userspace eventually will have to follow and use the same aliases the
kernel does. So at some point we may be delete these aliases without
problems. However that day is not today.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.
A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.
Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.
Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.
This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.
This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.
After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
