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<title>fuse: fix control dir setup and teardown</title>
<updated>2018-07-03T09:21:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
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<published>2018-05-31T10:26:10+00:00</published>
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commit 6becdb601bae2a043d7fb9762c4d48699528ea6e upstream.

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at fuse_ctl_remove_conn() [1].
Since fc-&gt;ctl_ndents is incremented by fuse_ctl_add_conn() when new_inode()
failed, fuse_ctl_remove_conn() reaches an inode-less dentry and tries to
clear d_inode(dentry)-&gt;i_private field.

Fix by only adding the dentry to the array after being fully set up.

When tearing down the control directory, do d_invalidate() on it to get rid
of any mounts that might have been added.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f396d863067238959c91c0b7cfc10b163638cac6
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+32c236387d66c4516827@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Fixes: bafa96541b25 ("[PATCH] fuse: add control filesystem")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.18
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 6becdb601bae2a043d7fb9762c4d48699528ea6e upstream.

syzbot is reporting NULL pointer dereference at fuse_ctl_remove_conn() [1].
Since fc-&gt;ctl_ndents is incremented by fuse_ctl_add_conn() when new_inode()
failed, fuse_ctl_remove_conn() reaches an inode-less dentry and tries to
clear d_inode(dentry)-&gt;i_private field.

Fix by only adding the dentry to the array after being fully set up.

When tearing down the control directory, do d_invalidate() on it to get rid
of any mounts that might have been added.

[1] https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?id=f396d863067238959c91c0b7cfc10b163638cac6
Reported-by: syzbot &lt;syzbot+32c236387d66c4516827@syzkaller.appspotmail.com&gt;
Fixes: bafa96541b25 ("[PATCH] fuse: add control filesystem")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v2.6.18
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations</title>
<updated>2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-17T22:25:59+00:00</published>
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fuse: add __exit to fuse_ctl_cleanup</title>
<updated>2014-04-28T12:19:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Fabian Frederick</name>
<email>fabf@skynet.be</email>
</author>
<published>2014-04-23T16:14:42+00:00</published>
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fuse_ctl_cleanup is only called by __exit fuse_exit

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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fuse_ctl_cleanup is only called by __exit fuse_exit

Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick &lt;fabf@skynet.be&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.</title>
<updated>2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric W. Biederman</name>
<email>ebiederm@xmission.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-03-03T03:39:14+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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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 &lt;serge.hallyn@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Reported-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>new helper: file_inode(file)</title>
<updated>2013-02-23T04:31:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-01-23T22:07:38+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fuse: mark variables uninitialized</title>
<updated>2012-09-03T15:44:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Mack</name>
<email>zonque@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-28T08:38:03+00:00</published>
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gcc 4.6.3 complains about uninitialized variables in fs/fuse/control.c:

  CC      fs/fuse/control.o
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:165:29: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_max_background_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:128:23: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]

fuse_conn_limit_write() will always return non-zero unless the &amp;val
is modified, so the warning is misleading. Let the compiler know
about it by marking 'val' with 'uninitialized_var'.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;zonque@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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gcc 4.6.3 complains about uninitialized variables in fs/fuse/control.c:

  CC      fs/fuse/control.o
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_congestion_threshold_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:165:29: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]
fs/fuse/control.c: In function 'fuse_conn_max_background_write':
fs/fuse/control.c:128:23: warning: 'val' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]

fuse_conn_limit_write() will always return non-zero unless the &amp;val
is modified, so the warning is misleading. Let the compiler know
about it by marking 'val' with 'uninitialized_var'.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack &lt;zonque@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Brian Foster &lt;bfoster@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fuse: Convert to kstrtoul_from_user</title>
<updated>2012-04-25T10:25:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Huewe</name>
<email>peterhuewe@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2012-04-15T00:20:27+00:00</published>
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This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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This patch replaces the code for getting an number from a
userspace buffer by a simple call to kstroul_from_user.
This makes it easier to read and less error prone.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe &lt;peterhuewe@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>filesystems: add set_nlink()</title>
<updated>2011-11-02T11:53:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-28T12:13:29+00:00</published>
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Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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Replace remaining direct i_nlink updates with a new set_nlink()
updater function.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@suse.cz&gt;
Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima &lt;toshi.okajima@jp.fujitsu.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>convert get_sb_single() users</title>
<updated>2010-10-29T08:16:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-24T21:48:30+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: do not assign default i_ino in new_inode</title>
<updated>2010-10-26T01:26:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-23T15:19:54+00:00</published>
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Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Instead of always assigning an increasing inode number in new_inode
move the call to assign it into those callers that actually need it.
For now callers that need it is estimated conservatively, that is
the call is added to all filesystems that do not assign an i_ino
by themselves.  For a few more filesystems we can avoid assigning
any inode number given that they aren't user visible, and for others
it could be done lazily when an inode number is actually needed,
but that's left for later patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;dchinner@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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