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<title>ext4: allow ext4_get_group_info() to fail</title>
<updated>2023-05-13T22:02:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Theodore Ts'o</name>
<email>tytso@mit.edu</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-29T04:06:28+00:00</published>
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Previously, ext4_get_group_info() would treat an invalid group number
as BUG(), since in theory it should never happen.  However, if a
malicious attaker (or fuzzer) modifies the superblock via the block
device while it is the file system is mounted, it is possible for
s_first_data_block to get set to a very large number.  In that case,
when calculating the block group of some block number (such as the
starting block of a preallocation region), could result in an
underflow and very large block group number.  Then the BUG_ON check in
ext4_get_group_info() would fire, resutling in a denial of service
attack that can be triggered by root or someone with write access to
the block device.

For a quality of implementation perspective, it's best that even if
the system administrator does something that they shouldn't, that it
will not trigger a BUG.  So instead of BUG'ing, ext4_get_group_info()
will call ext4_error and return NULL.  We also add fallback code in
all of the callers of ext4_get_group_info() that it might NULL.

Also, since ext4_get_group_info() was already borderline to be an
inline function, un-inline it.  The results in a next reduction of the
compiled text size of ext4 by roughly 2k.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230430154311.579720-2-tytso@mit.edu
Reported-by: syzbot+e2efa3efc15a1c9e95c3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=69b28112e098b070f639efb356393af3ffec4220
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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Previously, ext4_get_group_info() would treat an invalid group number
as BUG(), since in theory it should never happen.  However, if a
malicious attaker (or fuzzer) modifies the superblock via the block
device while it is the file system is mounted, it is possible for
s_first_data_block to get set to a very large number.  In that case,
when calculating the block group of some block number (such as the
starting block of a preallocation region), could result in an
underflow and very large block group number.  Then the BUG_ON check in
ext4_get_group_info() would fire, resutling in a denial of service
attack that can be triggered by root or someone with write access to
the block device.

For a quality of implementation perspective, it's best that even if
the system administrator does something that they shouldn't, that it
will not trigger a BUG.  So instead of BUG'ing, ext4_get_group_info()
will call ext4_error and return NULL.  We also add fallback code in
all of the callers of ext4_get_group_info() that it might NULL.

Also, since ext4_get_group_info() was already borderline to be an
inline function, un-inline it.  The results in a next reduction of the
compiled text size of ext4 by roughly 2k.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230430154311.579720-2-tytso@mit.edu
Reported-by: syzbot+e2efa3efc15a1c9e95c3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=69b28112e098b070f639efb356393af3ffec4220
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unused group parameter in ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T03:00:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kemeng Shi</name>
<email>shikemeng@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T20:30:27+00:00</published>
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set. After this,
group parameter in ext4_set_bitmap_checksums is also not used, just
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-5-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_block_bitmap_csum_set. After this,
group parameter in ext4_set_bitmap_checksums is also not used, just
remove it too.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-5-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_set</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T03:00:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kemeng Shi</name>
<email>shikemeng@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T20:30:25+00:00</published>
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_set.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_set.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-3-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>ext4: remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_verify</title>
<updated>2023-03-24T03:00:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kemeng Shi</name>
<email>shikemeng@huaweicloud.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-02-21T20:30:24+00:00</published>
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_verify.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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Remove unused group parameter in ext4_inode_bitmap_csum_verify.

Signed-off-by: Kemeng Shi &lt;shikemeng@huaweicloud.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230221203027.2359920-2-shikemeng@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: port fs{g,u}id helpers to mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:31+00:00</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: port inode_init_owner() to mnt_idmap</title>
<updated>2023-01-19T08:24:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-01-13T11:49:25+00:00</published>
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert to struct mnt_idmap.

Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b42 ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.

Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.

Acked-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T03:56:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T03:56:37+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with many of the bug fixes
  found by Syzbot and fuzzing. (Many of the bug fixes involve less-used
  ext4 features such as fast_commit, inline_data and bigalloc)

  In addition, remove the writepage function for ext4, since the
  medium-term plan is to remove -&gt;writepage() entirely. (The VM doesn't
  need or want writepage() for writeback, since it is fine with
  -&gt;writepages() so long as -&gt;migrate_folio() is implemented)"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits)
  ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting in __es_remove_extent()
  ext4: fix inode leak in ext4_xattr_inode_create() on an error path
  ext4: allocate extended attribute value in vmalloc area
  ext4: avoid unaccounted block allocation when expanding inode
  ext4: initialize quota before expanding inode in setproject ioctl
  ext4: stop providing .writepage hook
  mm: export buffer_migrate_folio_norefs()
  ext4: switch to using write_cache_pages() for data=journal writeout
  jbd2: switch jbd2_submit_inode_data() to use fs-provided hook for data writeout
  ext4: switch to using ext4_do_writepages() for ordered data writeout
  ext4: move percpu_rwsem protection into ext4_writepages()
  ext4: provide ext4_do_writepages()
  ext4: add support for writepages calls that cannot map blocks
  ext4: drop pointless IO submission from ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: remove nr_submitted from ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: move keep_towrite handling to ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: handle redirtying in ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: fix kernel BUG in 'ext4_write_inline_data_end()'
  ext4: make ext4_mb_initialize_context return void
  ext4: fix deadlock due to mbcache entry corruption
  ...
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "A large number of cleanups and bug fixes, with many of the bug fixes
  found by Syzbot and fuzzing. (Many of the bug fixes involve less-used
  ext4 features such as fast_commit, inline_data and bigalloc)

  In addition, remove the writepage function for ext4, since the
  medium-term plan is to remove -&gt;writepage() entirely. (The VM doesn't
  need or want writepage() for writeback, since it is fine with
  -&gt;writepages() so long as -&gt;migrate_folio() is implemented)"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (58 commits)
  ext4: fix reserved cluster accounting in __es_remove_extent()
  ext4: fix inode leak in ext4_xattr_inode_create() on an error path
  ext4: allocate extended attribute value in vmalloc area
  ext4: avoid unaccounted block allocation when expanding inode
  ext4: initialize quota before expanding inode in setproject ioctl
  ext4: stop providing .writepage hook
  mm: export buffer_migrate_folio_norefs()
  ext4: switch to using write_cache_pages() for data=journal writeout
  jbd2: switch jbd2_submit_inode_data() to use fs-provided hook for data writeout
  ext4: switch to using ext4_do_writepages() for ordered data writeout
  ext4: move percpu_rwsem protection into ext4_writepages()
  ext4: provide ext4_do_writepages()
  ext4: add support for writepages calls that cannot map blocks
  ext4: drop pointless IO submission from ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: remove nr_submitted from ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: move keep_towrite handling to ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: handle redirtying in ext4_bio_write_page()
  ext4: fix kernel BUG in 'ext4_write_inline_data_end()'
  ext4: make ext4_mb_initialize_context return void
  ext4: fix deadlock due to mbcache entry corruption
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fs.acl.rework.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T02:46:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T02:46:39+00:00</published>
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Pull VFS acl updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work that builds a dedicated vfs posix acl api.

  The origins of this work trace back to v5.19 but it took quite a while
  to understand the various filesystem specific implementations in
  sufficient detail and also come up with an acceptable solution.

  As we discussed and seen multiple times the current state of how posix
  acls are handled isn't nice and comes with a lot of problems: The
  current way of handling posix acls via the generic xattr api is error
  prone, hard to maintain, and type unsafe for the vfs until we call
  into the filesystem's dedicated get and set inode operations.

  It is already the case that posix acls are special-cased to death all
  the way through the vfs. There are an uncounted number of hacks that
  operate on the uapi posix acl struct instead of the dedicated vfs
  struct posix_acl. And the vfs must be involved in order to interpret
  and fixup posix acls before storing them to the backing store, caching
  them, reporting them to userspace, or for permission checking.

  Currently a range of hacks and duct tape exist to make this work. As
  with most things this is really no ones fault it's just something that
  happened over time. But the code is hard to understand and difficult
  to maintain and one is constantly at risk of introducing bugs and
  regressions when having to touch it.

  Instead of continuing to hack posix acls through the xattr handlers
  this series builds a dedicated posix acl api solely around the get and
  set inode operations.

  Going forward, the vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(), and vfs_set_acl()
  helpers must be used in order to interact with posix acls. They
  operate directly on the vfs internal struct posix_acl instead of
  abusing the uapi posix acl struct as we currently do. In the end this
  removes all of the hackiness, makes the codepaths easier to maintain,
  and gets us type safety.

  This series passes the LTP and xfstests suites without any
  regressions. For xfstests the following combinations were tested:
   - xfs
   - ext4
   - btrfs
   - overlayfs
   - overlayfs on top of idmapped mounts
   - orangefs
   - (limited) cifs

  There's more simplifications for posix acls that we can make in the
  future if the basic api has made it.

  A few implementation details:

   - The series makes sure to retain exactly the same security and
     integrity module permission checks. Especially for the integrity
     modules this api is a win because right now they convert the uapi
     posix acl struct passed to them via a void pointer into the vfs
     struct posix_acl format to perform permission checking on the mode.

     There's a new dedicated security hook for setting posix acls which
     passes the vfs struct posix_acl not a void pointer. Basing checking
     on the posix acl stored in the uapi format is really unreliable.
     The vfs currently hacks around directly in the uapi struct storing
     values that frankly the security and integrity modules can't
     correctly interpret as evidenced by bugs we reported and fixed in
     this area. It's not necessarily even their fault it's just that the
     format we provide to them is sub optimal.

   - Some filesystems like 9p and cifs need access to the dentry in
     order to get and set posix acls which is why they either only
     partially or not even at all implement get and set inode
     operations. For example, cifs allows setxattr() and getxattr()
     operations but doesn't allow permission checking based on posix
     acls because it can't implement a get acl inode operation.

     Thus, this patch series updates the set acl inode operation to take
     a dentry instead of an inode argument. However, for the get acl
     inode operation we can't do this as the old get acl method is
     called in e.g., generic_permission() and inode_permission(). These
     helpers in turn are called in various filesystem's permission inode
     operation. So passing a dentry argument to the old get acl inode
     operation would amount to passing a dentry to the permission inode
     operation which we shouldn't and probably can't do.

     So instead of extending the existing inode operation Christoph
     suggested to add a new one. He also requested to ensure that the
     get and set acl inode operation taking a dentry are consistently
     named. So for this version the old get acl operation is renamed to
     -&gt;get_inode_acl() and a new -&gt;get_acl() inode operation taking a
     dentry is added. With this we can give both 9p and cifs get and set
     acl inode operations and in turn remove their complex custom posix
     xattr handlers.

     In the future I hope to get rid of the inode method duplication but
     it isn't like we have never had this situation. Readdir is just one
     example. And frankly, the overall gain in type safety and the more
     pleasant api wise are simply too big of a benefit to not accept
     this duplication for a while.

   - We've done a full audit of every codepaths using variant of the
     current generic xattr api to get and set posix acls and
     surprisingly it isn't that many places. There's of course always a
     chance that we might have missed some and if so I'm sure we'll find
     them soon enough.

     The crucial codepaths to be converted are obviously stacking
     filesystems such as ecryptfs and overlayfs.

     For a list of all callers currently using generic xattr api helpers
     see [2] including comments whether they support posix acls or not.

   - The old vfs generic posix acl infrastructure doesn't obey the
     create and replace semantics promised on the setxattr(2) manpage.
     This patch series doesn't address this. It really is something we
     should revisit later though.

  The patches are roughly organized as follows:

   (1) Change existing set acl inode operation to take a dentry
       argument (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (2) Rename existing get acl method (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (3) Implement get and set acl inode operations for filesystems that
       couldn't implement one before because of the missing dentry.
       That's mostly 9p and cifs (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (4) Build posix acl api, i.e., add vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(),
       and vfs_set_acl() including security and integrity hooks
       (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (5) Implement get and set acl inode operations for stacking
       filesystems (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (6) Switch posix acl handling in stacking filesystems to new posix
       acl api now that all filesystems it can stack upon support it.

   (7) Switch vfs to new posix acl api (semantical change)

   (8) Remove all now unused helpers

   (9) Additional regression fixes reported after we merged this into
       linux-next

  Thanks to Seth for a lot of good discussion around this and
  encouragement and input from Christoph"

* tag 'fs.acl.rework.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (36 commits)
  posix_acl: Fix the type of sentinel in get_acl
  orangefs: fix mode handling
  ovl: call posix_acl_release() after error checking
  evm: remove dead code in evm_inode_set_acl()
  cifs: check whether acl is valid early
  acl: make vfs_posix_acl_to_xattr() static
  acl: remove a slew of now unused helpers
  9p: use stub posix acl handlers
  cifs: use stub posix acl handlers
  ovl: use stub posix acl handlers
  ecryptfs: use stub posix acl handlers
  evm: remove evm_xattr_acl_change()
  xattr: use posix acl api
  ovl: use posix acl api
  ovl: implement set acl method
  ovl: implement get acl method
  ecryptfs: implement set acl method
  ecryptfs: implement get acl method
  ksmbd: use vfs_remove_acl()
  acl: add vfs_remove_acl()
  ...
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Pull VFS acl updates from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains the work that builds a dedicated vfs posix acl api.

  The origins of this work trace back to v5.19 but it took quite a while
  to understand the various filesystem specific implementations in
  sufficient detail and also come up with an acceptable solution.

  As we discussed and seen multiple times the current state of how posix
  acls are handled isn't nice and comes with a lot of problems: The
  current way of handling posix acls via the generic xattr api is error
  prone, hard to maintain, and type unsafe for the vfs until we call
  into the filesystem's dedicated get and set inode operations.

  It is already the case that posix acls are special-cased to death all
  the way through the vfs. There are an uncounted number of hacks that
  operate on the uapi posix acl struct instead of the dedicated vfs
  struct posix_acl. And the vfs must be involved in order to interpret
  and fixup posix acls before storing them to the backing store, caching
  them, reporting them to userspace, or for permission checking.

  Currently a range of hacks and duct tape exist to make this work. As
  with most things this is really no ones fault it's just something that
  happened over time. But the code is hard to understand and difficult
  to maintain and one is constantly at risk of introducing bugs and
  regressions when having to touch it.

  Instead of continuing to hack posix acls through the xattr handlers
  this series builds a dedicated posix acl api solely around the get and
  set inode operations.

  Going forward, the vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(), and vfs_set_acl()
  helpers must be used in order to interact with posix acls. They
  operate directly on the vfs internal struct posix_acl instead of
  abusing the uapi posix acl struct as we currently do. In the end this
  removes all of the hackiness, makes the codepaths easier to maintain,
  and gets us type safety.

  This series passes the LTP and xfstests suites without any
  regressions. For xfstests the following combinations were tested:
   - xfs
   - ext4
   - btrfs
   - overlayfs
   - overlayfs on top of idmapped mounts
   - orangefs
   - (limited) cifs

  There's more simplifications for posix acls that we can make in the
  future if the basic api has made it.

  A few implementation details:

   - The series makes sure to retain exactly the same security and
     integrity module permission checks. Especially for the integrity
     modules this api is a win because right now they convert the uapi
     posix acl struct passed to them via a void pointer into the vfs
     struct posix_acl format to perform permission checking on the mode.

     There's a new dedicated security hook for setting posix acls which
     passes the vfs struct posix_acl not a void pointer. Basing checking
     on the posix acl stored in the uapi format is really unreliable.
     The vfs currently hacks around directly in the uapi struct storing
     values that frankly the security and integrity modules can't
     correctly interpret as evidenced by bugs we reported and fixed in
     this area. It's not necessarily even their fault it's just that the
     format we provide to them is sub optimal.

   - Some filesystems like 9p and cifs need access to the dentry in
     order to get and set posix acls which is why they either only
     partially or not even at all implement get and set inode
     operations. For example, cifs allows setxattr() and getxattr()
     operations but doesn't allow permission checking based on posix
     acls because it can't implement a get acl inode operation.

     Thus, this patch series updates the set acl inode operation to take
     a dentry instead of an inode argument. However, for the get acl
     inode operation we can't do this as the old get acl method is
     called in e.g., generic_permission() and inode_permission(). These
     helpers in turn are called in various filesystem's permission inode
     operation. So passing a dentry argument to the old get acl inode
     operation would amount to passing a dentry to the permission inode
     operation which we shouldn't and probably can't do.

     So instead of extending the existing inode operation Christoph
     suggested to add a new one. He also requested to ensure that the
     get and set acl inode operation taking a dentry are consistently
     named. So for this version the old get acl operation is renamed to
     -&gt;get_inode_acl() and a new -&gt;get_acl() inode operation taking a
     dentry is added. With this we can give both 9p and cifs get and set
     acl inode operations and in turn remove their complex custom posix
     xattr handlers.

     In the future I hope to get rid of the inode method duplication but
     it isn't like we have never had this situation. Readdir is just one
     example. And frankly, the overall gain in type safety and the more
     pleasant api wise are simply too big of a benefit to not accept
     this duplication for a while.

   - We've done a full audit of every codepaths using variant of the
     current generic xattr api to get and set posix acls and
     surprisingly it isn't that many places. There's of course always a
     chance that we might have missed some and if so I'm sure we'll find
     them soon enough.

     The crucial codepaths to be converted are obviously stacking
     filesystems such as ecryptfs and overlayfs.

     For a list of all callers currently using generic xattr api helpers
     see [2] including comments whether they support posix acls or not.

   - The old vfs generic posix acl infrastructure doesn't obey the
     create and replace semantics promised on the setxattr(2) manpage.
     This patch series doesn't address this. It really is something we
     should revisit later though.

  The patches are roughly organized as follows:

   (1) Change existing set acl inode operation to take a dentry
       argument (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (2) Rename existing get acl method (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (3) Implement get and set acl inode operations for filesystems that
       couldn't implement one before because of the missing dentry.
       That's mostly 9p and cifs (Intended to be a non-functional
       change)

   (4) Build posix acl api, i.e., add vfs_get_acl(), vfs_remove_acl(),
       and vfs_set_acl() including security and integrity hooks
       (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (5) Implement get and set acl inode operations for stacking
       filesystems (Intended to be a non-functional change)

   (6) Switch posix acl handling in stacking filesystems to new posix
       acl api now that all filesystems it can stack upon support it.

   (7) Switch vfs to new posix acl api (semantical change)

   (8) Remove all now unused helpers

   (9) Additional regression fixes reported after we merged this into
       linux-next

  Thanks to Seth for a lot of good discussion around this and
  encouragement and input from Christoph"

* tag 'fs.acl.rework.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping: (36 commits)
  posix_acl: Fix the type of sentinel in get_acl
  orangefs: fix mode handling
  ovl: call posix_acl_release() after error checking
  evm: remove dead code in evm_inode_set_acl()
  cifs: check whether acl is valid early
  acl: make vfs_posix_acl_to_xattr() static
  acl: remove a slew of now unused helpers
  9p: use stub posix acl handlers
  cifs: use stub posix acl handlers
  ovl: use stub posix acl handlers
  ecryptfs: use stub posix acl handlers
  evm: remove evm_xattr_acl_change()
  xattr: use posix acl api
  ovl: use posix acl api
  ovl: implement set acl method
  ovl: implement get acl method
  ecryptfs: implement set acl method
  ecryptfs: implement get acl method
  ksmbd: use vfs_remove_acl()
  acl: add vfs_remove_acl()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ext4: split ext4_journal_start trace for debug</title>
<updated>2022-12-01T15:46:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>changfengnan</name>
<email>changfengnan@bytedance.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-08T12:05:18+00:00</published>
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we might want to know why jbd2 thread using high io for detail,
split ext4_journal_start trace to ext4_journal_start_sb and
ext4_journal_start_inode, show ino and handle type when possible.

Signed-off-by: changfengnan &lt;changfengnan@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221008120518.74870-1-changfengnan@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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we might want to know why jbd2 thread using high io for detail,
split ext4_journal_start trace to ext4_journal_start_sb and
ext4_journal_start_inode, show ino and handle type when possible.

Signed-off-by: changfengnan &lt;changfengnan@bytedance.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221008120518.74870-1-changfengnan@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o &lt;tytso@mit.edu&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>treewide: use get_random_u32_below() instead of deprecated function</title>
<updated>2022-11-18T01:15:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jason A. Donenfeld</name>
<email>Jason@zx2c4.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-10T02:44:02+00:00</published>
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This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt; # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt; # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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This is a simple mechanical transformation done by:

@@
expression E;
@@
- prandom_u32_max
+ get_random_u32_below
  (E)

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;djwong@kernel.org&gt; # for xfs
Reviewed-by: SeongJae Park &lt;sj@kernel.org&gt; # for damon
Reviewed-by: Jason Gunthorpe &lt;jgg@nvidia.com&gt; # for infiniband
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) &lt;rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk&gt; # for arm
Acked-by: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt; # for mmc
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld &lt;Jason@zx2c4.com&gt;
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