<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux-stable.git/fs/ext4/ext4.h, branch linux-5.2.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>ext4: fix potential use after free after remounting with noblock_validity</title>
<updated>2019-10-07T16:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>zhangyi (F)</name>
<email>yi.zhang@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-08-28T15:13:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b67fd3bfeec52d0ee5c057b139814ac28a340f76'/>
<id>b67fd3bfeec52d0ee5c057b139814ac28a340f76</id>
<content type='text'>
[ Upstream commit 7727ae52975d4f4ef7ff69ed8e6e25f6a4168158 ]

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mount an ext4 file system to two
mountpoints with default mount options, and then remount one of them
with "noblock_validity", it may trigger a use after free problem when
someone accessing the other one.

 # mount /dev/sda foo
 # mount /dev/sda bar

User access mountpoint "foo"   |   Remount mountpoint "bar"
                               |
ext4_map_blocks()              |   ext4_remount()
check_block_validity()         |   ext4_setup_system_zone()
ext4_data_block_valid()        |   ext4_release_system_zone()
                               |   free system_blks rb nodes
access system_blks rb nodes    |
trigger use after free         |

This problem can also be reproduced by one mountpint, At the same time,
add_system_zone() can get called during remount as well so there can be
racing ext4_data_block_valid() reading the rbtree at the same time.

This patch add RCU to protect system zone from releasing or building
when doing a remount which inverse current "noblock_validity" mount
option. It assign the rbtree after the whole tree was complete and
do actual freeing after rcu grace period, avoid any intermediate state.

Reported-by: syzbot+1e470567330b7ad711d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
[ Upstream commit 7727ae52975d4f4ef7ff69ed8e6e25f6a4168158 ]

Remount process will release system zone which was allocated before if
"noblock_validity" is specified. If we mount an ext4 file system to two
mountpoints with default mount options, and then remount one of them
with "noblock_validity", it may trigger a use after free problem when
someone accessing the other one.

 # mount /dev/sda foo
 # mount /dev/sda bar

User access mountpoint "foo"   |   Remount mountpoint "bar"
                               |
ext4_map_blocks()              |   ext4_remount()
check_block_validity()         |   ext4_setup_system_zone()
ext4_data_block_valid()        |   ext4_release_system_zone()
                               |   free system_blks rb nodes
access system_blks rb nodes    |
trigger use after free         |

This problem can also be reproduced by one mountpint, At the same time,
add_system_zone() can get called during remount as well so there can be
racing ext4_data_block_valid() reading the rbtree at the same time.

This patch add RCU to protect system zone from releasing or building
when doing a remount which inverse current "noblock_validity" mount
option. It assign the rbtree after the whole tree was complete and
do actual freeing after rcu grace period, avoid any intermediate state.

Reported-by: syzbot+1e470567330b7ad711d5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: zhangyi (F) &lt;yi.zhang@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T04:28:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T04:28:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a9fbcd6728837268784439ad0b02ede2c024c516'/>
<id>a9fbcd6728837268784439ad0b02ede2c024c516</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean up fscrypt's dcache revalidation support, and other
  miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in -&gt;i_link
  vfs: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_link
  fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext
  fscrypt: only set dentry_operations on ciphertext dentries
  fs, fscrypt: clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME when unaliasing directory
  fscrypt: fix race allowing rename() and link() of ciphertext dentries
  fscrypt: clean up and improve dentry revalidation
  fscrypt: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_crypt_info
  fscrypt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() when decryption fails
  fscrypt: drop inode argument from fscrypt_get_ctx()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Clean up fscrypt's dcache revalidation support, and other
  miscellaneous cleanups"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/fscrypt/fscrypt:
  fscrypt: cache decrypted symlink target in -&gt;i_link
  vfs: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_link
  fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext
  fscrypt: only set dentry_operations on ciphertext dentries
  fs, fscrypt: clear DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_NAME when unaliasing directory
  fscrypt: fix race allowing rename() and link() of ciphertext dentries
  fscrypt: clean up and improve dentry revalidation
  fscrypt: use READ_ONCE() to access -&gt;i_crypt_info
  fscrypt: remove WARN_ON_ONCE() when decryption fails
  fscrypt: drop inode argument from fscrypt_get_ctx()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2019-05-08T04:12:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-05-08T04:12:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5abe37954e9a315c35c9490f78d55f307c3c636b'/>
<id>5abe37954e9a315c35c9490f78d55f307c3c636b</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature)
  using Unicode 12.1.

  Also, the usual largish number of cleanups and bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present
  ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal
  unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h
  docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
  ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups
  ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock
  MAINTAINERS: add Unicode subsystem entry
  unicode: update unicode database unicode version 12.1.0
  unicode: introduce test module for normalized utf8 implementation
  unicode: implement higher level API for string handling
  unicode: reduce the size of utf8data[]
  unicode: introduce code for UTF-8 normalization
  unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database
  ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow
  ext4: cond_resched in work-heavy group loops
  ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize
  ext4: avoid drop reference to iloc.bh twice
  ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode
  ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity
  ext4: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature)
  using Unicode 12.1.

  Also, the usual largish number of cleanups and bug fixes"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present
  ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal
  unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h
  docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
  ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups
  ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock
  MAINTAINERS: add Unicode subsystem entry
  unicode: update unicode database unicode version 12.1.0
  unicode: introduce test module for normalized utf8 implementation
  unicode: implement higher level API for string handling
  unicode: reduce the size of utf8data[]
  unicode: introduce code for UTF-8 normalization
  unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database
  ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow
  ext4: cond_resched in work-heavy group loops
  ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize
  ext4: avoid drop reference to iloc.bh twice
  ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode
  ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity
  ext4: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups</title>
<updated>2019-04-25T18:12:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@collabora.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-25T18:12:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b886ee3e778ec2ad43e276fd378ab492cf6819b7'/>
<id>b886ee3e778ec2ad43e276fd378ab492cf6819b7</id>
<content type='text'>
This patch implements the actual support for case-insensitive file name
lookups in ext4, based on the feature bit and the encoding stored in the
superblock.

A filesystem that has the casefold feature set is able to configure
directories with the +F (EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL) attribute, enabling lookups
to succeed in that directory in a case-insensitive fashion, i.e: match
a directory entry even if the name used by userspace is not a byte per
byte match with the disk name, but is an equivalent case-insensitive
version of the Unicode string.  This operation is called a
case-insensitive file name lookup.

The feature is configured as an inode attribute applied to directories
and inherited by its children.  This attribute can only be enabled on
empty directories for filesystems that support the encoding feature,
thus preventing collision of file names that only differ by case.

* dcache handling:

For a +F directory, Ext4 only stores the first equivalent name dentry
used in the dcache. This is done to prevent unintentional duplication of
dentries in the dcache, while also allowing the VFS code to quickly find
the right entry in the cache despite which equivalent string was used in
a previous lookup, without having to resort to -&gt;lookup().

d_hash() of casefolded directories is implemented as the hash of the
casefolded string, such that we always have a well-known bucket for all
the equivalencies of the same string. d_compare() uses the
utf8_strncasecmp() infrastructure, which handles the comparison of
equivalent, same case, names as well.

For now, negative lookups are not inserted in the dcache, since they
would need to be invalidated anyway, because we can't trust missing file
dentries.  This is bad for performance but requires some leveraging of
the vfs layer to fix.  We can live without that for now, and so does
everyone else.

* on-disk data:

Despite using a specific version of the name as the internal
representation within the dcache, the name stored and fetched from the
disk is a byte-per-byte match with what the user requested, making this
implementation 'name-preserving'. i.e. no actual information is lost
when writing to storage.

DX is supported by modifying the hashes used in +F directories to make
them case/encoding-aware.  The new disk hashes are calculated as the
hash of the full casefolded string, instead of the string directly.
This allows us to efficiently search for file names in the htree without
requiring the user to provide an exact name.

* Dealing with invalid sequences:

By default, when a invalid UTF-8 sequence is identified, ext4 will treat
it as an opaque byte sequence, ignoring the encoding and reverting to
the old behavior for that unique file.  This means that case-insensitive
file name lookup will not work only for that file.  An optional bit can
be set in the superblock telling the filesystem code and userspace tools
to enforce the encoding.  When that optional bit is set, any attempt to
create a file name using an invalid UTF-8 sequence will fail and return
an error to userspace.

* Normalization algorithm:

The UTF-8 algorithms used to compare strings in ext4 is implemented
lives in fs/unicode, and is based on a previous version developed by
SGI.  It implements the Canonical decomposition (NFD) algorithm
described by the Unicode specification 12.1, or higher, combined with
the elimination of ignorable code points (NFDi) and full
case-folding (CF) as documented in fs/unicode/utf8_norm.c.

NFD seems to be the best normalization method for EXT4 because:

  - It has a lower cost than NFC/NFKC (which requires
    decomposing to NFD as an intermediary step)
  - It doesn't eliminate important semantic meaning like
    compatibility decompositions.

Although:

  - This implementation is not completely linguistic accurate, because
  different languages have conflicting rules, which would require the
  specialization of the filesystem to a given locale, which brings all
  sorts of problems for removable media and for users who use more than
  one language.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
This patch implements the actual support for case-insensitive file name
lookups in ext4, based on the feature bit and the encoding stored in the
superblock.

A filesystem that has the casefold feature set is able to configure
directories with the +F (EXT4_CASEFOLD_FL) attribute, enabling lookups
to succeed in that directory in a case-insensitive fashion, i.e: match
a directory entry even if the name used by userspace is not a byte per
byte match with the disk name, but is an equivalent case-insensitive
version of the Unicode string.  This operation is called a
case-insensitive file name lookup.

The feature is configured as an inode attribute applied to directories
and inherited by its children.  This attribute can only be enabled on
empty directories for filesystems that support the encoding feature,
thus preventing collision of file names that only differ by case.

* dcache handling:

For a +F directory, Ext4 only stores the first equivalent name dentry
used in the dcache. This is done to prevent unintentional duplication of
dentries in the dcache, while also allowing the VFS code to quickly find
the right entry in the cache despite which equivalent string was used in
a previous lookup, without having to resort to -&gt;lookup().

d_hash() of casefolded directories is implemented as the hash of the
casefolded string, such that we always have a well-known bucket for all
the equivalencies of the same string. d_compare() uses the
utf8_strncasecmp() infrastructure, which handles the comparison of
equivalent, same case, names as well.

For now, negative lookups are not inserted in the dcache, since they
would need to be invalidated anyway, because we can't trust missing file
dentries.  This is bad for performance but requires some leveraging of
the vfs layer to fix.  We can live without that for now, and so does
everyone else.

* on-disk data:

Despite using a specific version of the name as the internal
representation within the dcache, the name stored and fetched from the
disk is a byte-per-byte match with what the user requested, making this
implementation 'name-preserving'. i.e. no actual information is lost
when writing to storage.

DX is supported by modifying the hashes used in +F directories to make
them case/encoding-aware.  The new disk hashes are calculated as the
hash of the full casefolded string, instead of the string directly.
This allows us to efficiently search for file names in the htree without
requiring the user to provide an exact name.

* Dealing with invalid sequences:

By default, when a invalid UTF-8 sequence is identified, ext4 will treat
it as an opaque byte sequence, ignoring the encoding and reverting to
the old behavior for that unique file.  This means that case-insensitive
file name lookup will not work only for that file.  An optional bit can
be set in the superblock telling the filesystem code and userspace tools
to enforce the encoding.  When that optional bit is set, any attempt to
create a file name using an invalid UTF-8 sequence will fail and return
an error to userspace.

* Normalization algorithm:

The UTF-8 algorithms used to compare strings in ext4 is implemented
lives in fs/unicode, and is based on a previous version developed by
SGI.  It implements the Canonical decomposition (NFD) algorithm
described by the Unicode specification 12.1, or higher, combined with
the elimination of ignorable code points (NFDi) and full
case-folding (CF) as documented in fs/unicode/utf8_norm.c.

NFD seems to be the best normalization method for EXT4 because:

  - It has a lower cost than NFC/NFKC (which requires
    decomposing to NFD as an intermediary step)
  - It doesn't eliminate important semantic meaning like
    compatibility decompositions.

Although:

  - This implementation is not completely linguistic accurate, because
  different languages have conflicting rules, which would require the
  specialization of the filesystem to a given locale, which brings all
  sorts of problems for removable media and for users who use more than
  one language.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock</title>
<updated>2019-04-25T18:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Gabriel Krisman Bertazi</name>
<email>krisman@collabora.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-25T18:05:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c83ad55eaa91c8e85dd8cc3b7b3485fac45ef7bf'/>
<id>c83ad55eaa91c8e85dd8cc3b7b3485fac45ef7bf</id>
<content type='text'>
Support for encoding is considered an incompatible feature, since it has
potential to create collisions of file names in existing filesystems.
If the feature flag is not enabled, the entire filesystem will operate
on opaque byte sequences, respecting the original behavior.

The s_encoding field stores a magic number indicating the encoding
format and version used globally by file and directory names in the
filesystem.  The s_encoding_flags defines policies for using the charset
encoding, like how to handle invalid sequences.  The magic number is
mapped to the exact charset table, but the mapping is specific to ext4.
Since we don't have any commitment to support old encodings, the only
encoding I am supporting right now is utf8-12.1.0.

The current implementation prevents the user from enabling encoding and
per-directory encryption on the same filesystem at the same time.  The
incompatibility between these features lies in how we do efficient
directory searches when we cannot be sure the encryption of the user
provided fname will match the actual hash stored in the disk without
decrypting every directory entry, because of normalization cases.  My
quickest solution is to simply block the concurrent use of these
features for now, and enable it later, once we have a better solution.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Support for encoding is considered an incompatible feature, since it has
potential to create collisions of file names in existing filesystems.
If the feature flag is not enabled, the entire filesystem will operate
on opaque byte sequences, respecting the original behavior.

The s_encoding field stores a magic number indicating the encoding
format and version used globally by file and directory names in the
filesystem.  The s_encoding_flags defines policies for using the charset
encoding, like how to handle invalid sequences.  The magic number is
mapped to the exact charset table, but the mapping is specific to ext4.
Since we don't have any commitment to support old encodings, the only
encoding I am supporting right now is utf8-12.1.0.

The current implementation prevents the user from enabling encoding and
per-directory encryption on the same filesystem at the same time.  The
incompatibility between these features lies in how we do efficient
directory searches when we cannot be sure the encryption of the user
provided fname will match the actual hash stored in the disk without
decrypting every directory entry, because of normalization cases.  My
quickest solution is to simply block the concurrent use of these
features for now, and enable it later, once we have a better solution.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi &lt;krisman@collabora.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>crypto: shash - remove shash_desc::flags</title>
<updated>2019-04-25T07:38:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-15T00:37:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=877b5691f27a1aec0d9b53095a323e45c30069e2'/>
<id>877b5691f27a1aec0d9b53095a323e45c30069e2</id>
<content type='text'>
The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.

With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP.  These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping.  For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API.  However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.

Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk.  It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.

Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The flags field in 'struct shash_desc' never actually does anything.
The only ostensibly supported flag is CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_SLEEP.
However, no shash algorithm ever sleeps, making this flag a no-op.

With this being the case, inevitably some users who can't sleep wrongly
pass MAY_SLEEP.  These would all need to be fixed if any shash algorithm
actually started sleeping.  For example, the shash_ahash_*() functions,
which wrap a shash algorithm with the ahash API, pass through MAY_SLEEP
from the ahash API to the shash API.  However, the shash functions are
called under kmap_atomic(), so actually they're assumed to never sleep.

Even if it turns out that some users do need preemption points while
hashing large buffers, we could easily provide a helper function
crypto_shash_update_large() which divides the data into smaller chunks
and calls crypto_shash_update() and cond_resched() for each chunk.  It's
not necessary to have a flag in 'struct shash_desc', nor is it necessary
to make individual shash algorithms aware of this at all.

Therefore, remove shash_desc::flags, and document that the
crypto_shash_*() functions can be called from any context.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu &lt;herbert@gondor.apana.org.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fscrypt: fix race where -&gt;lookup() marks plaintext dentry as ciphertext</title>
<updated>2019-04-17T14:07:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-20T18:39:13+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b01531db6cec2aa330dbc91bfbfaaef4a0d387a4'/>
<id>b01531db6cec2aa330dbc91bfbfaaef4a0d387a4</id>
<content type='text'>
-&gt;lookup() in an encrypted directory begins as follows:

1. fscrypt_prepare_lookup():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is unavailable, mark the dentry as a ciphertext name
       via d_flags.
2. fscrypt_setup_filename():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is available, encrypt the name (treated as a plaintext
       name) to get the on-disk name.  Otherwise decode the name
       (treated as a ciphertext name) to get the on-disk name.

But if the key is concurrently added, it may be found at (2a) but not at
(1a).  In this case, the dentry will be wrongly marked as a ciphertext
name even though it was actually treated as plaintext.

This will cause the dentry to be wrongly invalidated on the next lookup,
potentially causing problems.  For example, if the racy -&gt;lookup() was
part of sys_mount(), then the new mount will be detached when anything
tries to access it.  This is despite the mountpoint having a plaintext
path, which should remain valid now that the key was added.

Of course, this is only possible if there's a userspace race.  Still,
the additional kernel-side race is confusing and unexpected.

Close the kernel-side race by changing fscrypt_prepare_lookup() to also
set the on-disk filename (step 2b), consistent with the d_flags update.

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
-&gt;lookup() in an encrypted directory begins as follows:

1. fscrypt_prepare_lookup():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is unavailable, mark the dentry as a ciphertext name
       via d_flags.
2. fscrypt_setup_filename():
    a. Try to load the directory's encryption key.
    b. If the key is available, encrypt the name (treated as a plaintext
       name) to get the on-disk name.  Otherwise decode the name
       (treated as a ciphertext name) to get the on-disk name.

But if the key is concurrently added, it may be found at (2a) but not at
(1a).  In this case, the dentry will be wrongly marked as a ciphertext
name even though it was actually treated as plaintext.

This will cause the dentry to be wrongly invalidated on the next lookup,
potentially causing problems.  For example, if the racy -&gt;lookup() was
part of sys_mount(), then the new mount will be detached when anything
tries to access it.  This is despite the mountpoint having a plaintext
path, which should remain valid now that the key was added.

Of course, this is only possible if there's a userspace race.  Still,
the additional kernel-side race is confusing and unexpected.

Close the kernel-side race by changing fscrypt_prepare_lookup() to also
set the on-disk filename (step 2b), consistent with the d_flags update.

Fixes: 28b4c263961c ("ext4 crypto: revalidate dentry after adding or removing the key")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: remove incorrect comment for NEXT_ORPHAN()</title>
<updated>2019-04-06T22:53:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-04-06T22:53:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fe53cbc5a39852a7e98d9993e617d49b61055b66'/>
<id>fe53cbc5a39852a7e98d9993e617d49b61055b66</id>
<content type='text'>
The comment above NEXT_ORPHAN() was meant for ext4_encrypted_inode(),
which was moved by commit a7550b30ab70 ("ext4 crypto: migrate into vfs's
crypto engine") but the comment was accidentally left in place.  Since
ext4_encrypted_inode() has now been removed, just remove the comment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The comment above NEXT_ORPHAN() was meant for ext4_encrypted_inode(),
which was moved by commit a7550b30ab70 ("ext4 crypto: migrate into vfs's
crypto engine") but the comment was accidentally left in place.  Since
ext4_encrypted_inode() has now been removed, just remove the comment.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2019-03-12T22:03:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-12T22:03:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a5adcfcad55d5f034b33f79f1a873229d1e77b24'/>
<id>a5adcfcad55d5f034b33f79f1a873229d1e77b24</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of bug fixes and cleanups.

  One new feature to allow users to more easily find the jbd2 journal
  thread for a particular ext4 file system"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  jbd2: jbd2_get_transaction does not need to return a value
  jbd2: fix invalid descriptor block checksum
  ext4: fix bigalloc cluster freeing when hole punching under load
  ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/&lt;disk&gt;/journal_task
  ext4: Change debugging support help prefix from EXT4 to Ext4
  ext4: fix compile error when using BUFFER_TRACE
  jbd2: fix compile warning when using JBUFFER_TRACE
  ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences
  ext4: annotate more implicit fall throughs
  ext4: annotate implicit fall throughs
  ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required
  jbd2: fold jbd2_superblock_csum_{verify,set} into their callers
  jbd2: fix race when writing superblock
  ext4: fix crash during online resizing
  ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: add mask of ext4 flags to swap
  ext4: update quota information while swapping boot loader inode
  ext4: cleanup pagecache before swap i_data
  ext4: fix check of inode in swap_inode_boot_loader
  ext4: unlock unused_pages timely when doing writeback
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of bug fixes and cleanups.

  One new feature to allow users to more easily find the jbd2 journal
  thread for a particular ext4 file system"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
  jbd2: jbd2_get_transaction does not need to return a value
  jbd2: fix invalid descriptor block checksum
  ext4: fix bigalloc cluster freeing when hole punching under load
  ext4: add sysfs attr /sys/fs/ext4/&lt;disk&gt;/journal_task
  ext4: Change debugging support help prefix from EXT4 to Ext4
  ext4: fix compile error when using BUFFER_TRACE
  jbd2: fix compile warning when using JBUFFER_TRACE
  ext4: fix some error pointer dereferences
  ext4: annotate more implicit fall throughs
  ext4: annotate implicit fall throughs
  ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required
  jbd2: fold jbd2_superblock_csum_{verify,set} into their callers
  jbd2: fix race when writing superblock
  ext4: fix crash during online resizing
  ext4: disallow files with EXT4_JOURNAL_DATA_FL from EXT4_IOC_SWAP_BOOT
  ext4: add mask of ext4 flags to swap
  ext4: update quota information while swapping boot loader inode
  ext4: cleanup pagecache before swap i_data
  ext4: fix check of inode in swap_inode_boot_loader
  ext4: unlock unused_pages timely when doing writeback
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ext4: don't update s_rev_level if not required</title>
<updated>2019-02-14T22:52:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andreas Dilger</name>
<email>adilger@dilger.ca</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-14T22:52:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=c9e716eb9b3455a83ed7c5f5a81256a3da779a95'/>
<id>c9e716eb9b3455a83ed7c5f5a81256a3da779a95</id>
<content type='text'>
Don't update the superblock s_rev_level during mount if it isn't
actually necessary, only if superblock features are being set by
the kernel.  This was originally added for ext3 since it always
set the INCOMPAT_RECOVER and HAS_JOURNAL features during mount,
but this is not needed since no journal mode was added to ext4.

That will allow Geert to mount his 20-year-old ext2 rev 0.0 m68k
filesystem, as a testament of the backward compatibility of ext4.

Fixes: 0390131ba84f ("ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Don't update the superblock s_rev_level during mount if it isn't
actually necessary, only if superblock features are being set by
the kernel.  This was originally added for ext3 since it always
set the INCOMPAT_RECOVER and HAS_JOURNAL features during mount,
but this is not needed since no journal mode was added to ext4.

That will allow Geert to mount his 20-year-old ext2 rev 0.0 m68k
filesystem, as a testament of the backward compatibility of ext4.

Fixes: 0390131ba84f ("ext4: Allow ext4 to run without a journal")
Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
