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<title>um: hostfs: avoid issues on inode number reuse by host</title>
<updated>2025-04-10T12:44:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Berg</name>
<email>benjamin.berg@intel.com</email>
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<published>2025-02-14T09:28:22+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0bc754d1e31f40f4a343b692096d9e092ccc0370 ]

Some file systems (e.g. ext4) may reuse inode numbers once the inode is
not in use anymore. Usually hostfs will keep an FD open for each inode,
but this is not always the case. In the case of sockets, this cannot
even be done properly.

As such, the following sequence of events was possible:
 * application creates and deletes a socket
 * hostfs creates/deletes the socket on the host
 * inode is still in the hostfs cache
 * hostfs creates a new file
 * ext4 on the outside reuses the inode number
 * hostfs finds the socket inode for the newly created file
 * application receives -ENXIO when opening the file

As mentioned, this can only happen if the deleted file is a special file
that is never opened on the host (i.e. no .open fop).

As such, to prevent issues, it is sufficient to check that the inode
has the expected type. That said, also add a check for the inode birth
time, just to be on the safe side.

Fixes: 74ce793bcbde ("hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Tested-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214092822.1241575-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0bc754d1e31f40f4a343b692096d9e092ccc0370 ]

Some file systems (e.g. ext4) may reuse inode numbers once the inode is
not in use anymore. Usually hostfs will keep an FD open for each inode,
but this is not always the case. In the case of sockets, this cannot
even be done properly.

As such, the following sequence of events was possible:
 * application creates and deletes a socket
 * hostfs creates/deletes the socket on the host
 * inode is still in the hostfs cache
 * hostfs creates a new file
 * ext4 on the outside reuses the inode number
 * hostfs finds the socket inode for the newly created file
 * application receives -ENXIO when opening the file

As mentioned, this can only happen if the deleted file is a special file
that is never opened on the host (i.e. no .open fop).

As such, to prevent issues, it is sufficient to check that the inode
has the expected type. That said, also add a check for the inode birth
time, just to be on the safe side.

Fixes: 74ce793bcbde ("hostfs: Fix ephemeral inodes")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Berg &lt;benjamin.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Tested-by: Mickaël Salaün &lt;mic@digikod.net&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250214092822.1241575-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2025-01-31T17:33:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2025-01-31T17:33:54+00:00</published>
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Pull hostfs fix from Al Viro:
 "Fix hostfs __dentry_name() string handling.

  The use of strcpy() with overlapping source and destination is a UB;
  original loop hadn't been. More to the point, the whole thing is much
  easier done with memcpy() + memmove()"

* tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  hostfs: fix string handling in __dentry_name()
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Pull hostfs fix from Al Viro:
 "Fix hostfs __dentry_name() string handling.

  The use of strcpy() with overlapping source and destination is a UB;
  original loop hadn't been. More to the point, the whole thing is much
  easier done with memcpy() + memmove()"

* tag 'pull-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  hostfs: fix string handling in __dentry_name()
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<title>hostfs: fix string handling in __dentry_name()</title>
<updated>2025-01-11T06:37:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2025-01-11T06:37:44+00:00</published>
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strcpy() should not be used with destination potentially overlapping
the source; what's more, strscpy() in there is pointless - we already
know the amount we want to copy; might as well use memcpy().

Fixes: c278e81b8a02 "hostfs: Remove open coded strcpy()"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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strcpy() should not be used with destination potentially overlapping
the source; what's more, strscpy() in there is pointless - we already
know the amount we want to copy; might as well use memcpy().

Fixes: c278e81b8a02 "hostfs: Remove open coded strcpy()"
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>hostfs: Convert to writepages</title>
<updated>2025-01-10T12:51:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-20T05:14:58+00:00</published>
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If we add a migrate_folio operation, we can convert the writepage
operation to writepages.  The large folio support here is illusory;
we would need to kmap each page in turn for proper support.  But we do
remove a few hidden calls to compound_head().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241220051500.1919389-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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If we add a migrate_folio operation, we can convert the writepage
operation to writepages.  The large folio support here is illusory;
we would need to kmap each page in turn for proper support.  But we do
remove a few hidden calls to compound_head().

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241220051500.1919389-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<title>hostfs: Fix the NULL vs IS_ERR() bug for __filemap_get_folio()</title>
<updated>2024-11-15T19:55:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>ZhangPeng</name>
<email>zhangpeng362@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-11-04T12:34:40+00:00</published>
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The __filemap_get_folio() function returns error pointers.
It never returns NULL. So use IS_ERR() to check it.

Fixes: 1da86618bdce ("fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio")
Signed-off-by: ZhangPeng &lt;zhangpeng362@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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The __filemap_get_folio() function returns error pointers.
It never returns NULL. So use IS_ERR() to check it.

Fixes: 1da86618bdce ("fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio")
Signed-off-by: ZhangPeng &lt;zhangpeng362@huawei.com&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes@sipsolutions.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger &lt;richard@nod.at&gt;
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<title>hostfs: Do not propagate hostfs parameter to kernel</title>
<updated>2024-10-23T07:52:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tiwei Bie</name>
<email>tiwei.btw@antgroup.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-11T04:04:38+00:00</published>
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This parameter is UML specific and is unknown to kernel. It should not
be propagated to kernel, otherwise it will be passed to user space as
an environment option by kernel with a warning like:

Unknown kernel command line parameters "hostfs=/foo", will be passed to user space.

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie &lt;tiwei.btw@antgroup.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241011040441.1586345-7-tiwei.btw@antgroup.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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This parameter is UML specific and is unknown to kernel. It should not
be propagated to kernel, otherwise it will be passed to user space as
an environment option by kernel with a warning like:

Unknown kernel command line parameters "hostfs=/foo", will be passed to user space.

Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie &lt;tiwei.btw@antgroup.com&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20241011040441.1586345-7-tiwei.btw@antgroup.com
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_begin to take a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:33:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-15T18:24:01+00:00</published>
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Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page
of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later).
Removes a lot of folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert all callers from working on a page to working on one page
of a folio (support for working on an entire folio can come later).
Removes a lot of folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio conversions.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: Convert aops-&gt;write_end to take a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:32:02+00:00</updated>
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<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-10T19:45:32+00:00</published>
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Most callers have a folio, and most implementations operate on a folio,
so remove the conversion from folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio to fit through this
interface.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Most callers have a folio, and most implementations operate on a folio,
so remove the conversion from folio-&gt;page-&gt;folio to fit through this
interface.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>hostfs: Convert hostfs_write_end() to use a folio</title>
<updated>2024-08-07T09:32:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)</name>
<email>willy@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-12T16:08:54+00:00</published>
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Convert the passed page to a folio and operate on that.
Replaces four calls to compound_head() with one.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Convert the passed page to a folio and operate on that.
Replaces four calls to compound_head() with one.

Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik &lt;josef@toxicpanda.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'vfs-6.11-rc1.fixes.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs</title>
<updated>2024-07-27T22:11:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-27T22:11:59+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains two fixes for this merge window:

  VFS:

   - I noticed that it is possible for a privileged user to mount most
     filesystems with a non-initial user namespace in sb-&gt;s_user_ns.

     When fsopen() is called in a non-init namespace the caller's
     namespace is recorded in fs_context-&gt;user_ns. If the returned file
     descriptor is then passed to a process privileged in init_user_ns,
     that process can call fsconfig(fd_fs, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE*),
     creating a new superblock with sb-&gt;s_user_ns set to the namespace
     of the process which called fsopen().

     This is problematic as only filesystems that raise FS_USERNS_MOUNT
     are known to be able to support a non-initial s_user_ns. Others may
     suffer security issues, on-disk corruption or outright crash the
     kernel. Prevent that by restricting such delegation to filesystems
     that allow FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

     Note, that this delegation requires a privileged process to
     actually create the superblock so either the privileged process is
     cooperaing or someone must have tricked a privileged process into
     operating on a fscontext file descriptor whose origin it doesn't
     know (a stupid idea).

     The bug dates back to about 5 years afaict.

  Misc:

   - Fix hostfs parsing when the mount request comes in via the legacy
     mount api.

     In the legacy mount api hostfs allows to specify the host directory
     mount without any key.

     Restore that behavior"

* tag 'vfs-6.11-rc1.fixes.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  hostfs: fix the host directory parse when mounting.
  fs: don't allow non-init s_user_ns for filesystems without FS_USERNS_MOUNT
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Pull vfs fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains two fixes for this merge window:

  VFS:

   - I noticed that it is possible for a privileged user to mount most
     filesystems with a non-initial user namespace in sb-&gt;s_user_ns.

     When fsopen() is called in a non-init namespace the caller's
     namespace is recorded in fs_context-&gt;user_ns. If the returned file
     descriptor is then passed to a process privileged in init_user_ns,
     that process can call fsconfig(fd_fs, FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE*),
     creating a new superblock with sb-&gt;s_user_ns set to the namespace
     of the process which called fsopen().

     This is problematic as only filesystems that raise FS_USERNS_MOUNT
     are known to be able to support a non-initial s_user_ns. Others may
     suffer security issues, on-disk corruption or outright crash the
     kernel. Prevent that by restricting such delegation to filesystems
     that allow FS_USERNS_MOUNT.

     Note, that this delegation requires a privileged process to
     actually create the superblock so either the privileged process is
     cooperaing or someone must have tricked a privileged process into
     operating on a fscontext file descriptor whose origin it doesn't
     know (a stupid idea).

     The bug dates back to about 5 years afaict.

  Misc:

   - Fix hostfs parsing when the mount request comes in via the legacy
     mount api.

     In the legacy mount api hostfs allows to specify the host directory
     mount without any key.

     Restore that behavior"

* tag 'vfs-6.11-rc1.fixes.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
  hostfs: fix the host directory parse when mounting.
  fs: don't allow non-init s_user_ns for filesystems without FS_USERNS_MOUNT
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