linux-stable.git/fs/configfs, branch linux-4.1.y

configfs: Fix race between create_link and configfs_rmdir

2017-06-26T02:02:21+00:00

[ Upstream commit ba80aa909c99802c428682c352b0ee0baac0acd3 ]

This patch closes a long standing race in configfs between
the creation of a new symlink in create_link(), while the
symlink target's config_item is being concurrently removed
via configfs_rmdir().

This can happen because the symlink target's reference
is obtained by config_item_get() in create_link() before
the CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING bit set by configfs_detach_prep()
during configfs_rmdir() shutdown is actually checked..

This originally manifested itself on ppc64 on v4.8.y under
heavy load using ibmvscsi target ports with Novalink API:

[ 7877.289863] rpadlpar_io: slot U8247.22L.212A91A-V1-C8 added
[ 7879.893760] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 7879.893768] WARNING: CPU: 15 PID: 17585 at ./include/linux/kref.h:46 config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893811] CPU: 15 PID: 17585 Comm: targetcli Tainted: G           O 4.8.17-customv2.22 #12
[ 7879.893812] task: c00000018a0d3400 task.stack: c0000001f3b40000
[ 7879.893813] NIP: d000000002c664ec LR: d000000002c60980 CTR: c000000000b70870
[ 7879.893814] REGS: c0000001f3b43810 TRAP: 0700   Tainted: G O     (4.8.17-customv2.22)
[ 7879.893815] MSR: 8000000000029033   CR: 28222242  XER: 00000000
[ 7879.893820] CFAR: d000000002c664bc SOFTE: 1
                GPR00: d000000002c60980 c0000001f3b43a90 d000000002c70908 c0000000fbc06820
                GPR04: c0000001ef1bd900 0000000000000004 0000000000000001 0000000000000000
                GPR08: 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 d000000002c69560 d000000002c66d80
                GPR12: c000000000b70870 c00000000e798700 c0000001f3b43ca0 c0000001d4949d40
                GPR16: c00000014637e1c0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 c0000000f2392940
                GPR20: c0000001f3b43b98 0000000000000041 0000000000600000 0000000000000000
                GPR24: fffffffffffff000 0000000000000000 d000000002c60be0 c0000001f1dac490
                GPR28: 0000000000000004 0000000000000000 c0000001ef1bd900 c0000000f2392940
[ 7879.893839] NIP [d000000002c664ec] config_item_get+0x7c/0x90 [configfs]
[ 7879.893841] LR [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893842] Call Trace:
[ 7879.893844] [c0000001f3b43ac0] [d000000002c60980] check_perm+0x80/0x2e0 [configfs]
[ 7879.893847] [c0000001f3b43b10] [c000000000329770] do_dentry_open+0x2c0/0x460
[ 7879.893849] [c0000001f3b43b70] [c000000000344480] path_openat+0x210/0x1490
[ 7879.893851] [c0000001f3b43c80] [c00000000034708c] do_filp_open+0xfc/0x170
[ 7879.893853] [c0000001f3b43db0] [c00000000032b5bc] do_sys_open+0x1cc/0x390
[ 7879.893856] [c0000001f3b43e30] [c000000000009584] system_call+0x38/0xec
[ 7879.893856] Instruction dump:
[ 7879.893858] 409d0014 38210030 e8010010 7c0803a6 4e800020 3d220000 e94981e0 892a0000
[ 7879.893861] 2f890000 409effe0 39200001 992a0000 <0fe00000> 4bffffd0 60000000 60000000
[ 7879.893866] ---[ end trace 14078f0b3b5ad0aa ]---

To close this race, go ahead and obtain the symlink's target
config_item reference only after the existing CONFIGFS_USET_DROPPING
check succeeds.

This way, if configfs_rmdir() wins create_link() will return -ENONET,
and if create_link() wins configfs_rmdir() will return -EBUSY.

Reported-by: Bryant G. Ly 
Tested-by: Bryant G. Ly 
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger 
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point

2015-07-21T17:10:01+00:00

commit f9bb48825a6b5d02f4cabcc78967c75db903dcdc upstream.

This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to be written.

The mount points converted and their filesystems are:
/sys/hypervisor/s390/       s390_hypfs
/sys/kernel/config/         configfs
/sys/kernel/debug/          debugfs
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/  efivarfs
/sys/fs/fuse/connections/   fusectl
/sys/fs/pstore/             pstore
/sys/kernel/tracing/        tracefs
/sys/fs/cgroup/             cgroup
/sys/kernel/security/       securityfs
/sys/fs/selinux/            selinuxfs
/sys/fs/smackfs/            smackfs

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

configfs: init configfs module earlier at boot time

2015-05-06T00:10:11+00:00

We need this earlier in the boot process to allow various subsystems to
use configfs (e.g Industrial IIO).

Also, debugfs is at core_initcall level and configfs should be on the same
level from infrastructure point of view.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta 
Suggested-by: Lars-Peter Clausen 
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00

that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs: Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file->f_path.dentry->d_inode

2015-04-15T19:05:31+00:00

Fix inconsistent use of file_inode() vs file->f_path.dentry->d_inode.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs: Fix potential NULL d_inode dereference

2015-02-20T09:56:43+00:00

Code that does this:

		if (!(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)) {
			...
			simple_unlink(parent->d_inode, dentry);
		}

is broken because:

    !(d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode)

is equivalent to:

    !d_unhashed(dentry) || !dentry->d_inode

so it is possible to get into simple_unlink() with dentry->d_inode == NULL.

simple_unlink(), however, assumes dentry->d_inode cannot be NULL.

I think that what was meant is this:

    !d_unhashed(dentry) && dentry->d_inode

and that the logical-not operator or the final close-bracket was misplaced.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
cc: Joel Becker 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs_add_file: fold into its sole caller

2015-02-18T03:16:46+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs: fold create_dir() into its only caller

2015-02-18T03:16:35+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

configfs: configfs_create() init callback is never NULL and it never fails

2015-02-18T03:15:47+00:00

... so make it return void and drop the check for it being non-NULL

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: remove mapping->backing_dev_info

2015-01-20T21:03:05+00:00

Now that we never use the backing_dev_info pointer in struct address_space
we can simply remove it and save 4 to 8 bytes in every inode.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi 
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe