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<title>compat_ioctl: add compat_ptr_ioctl()</title>
<updated>2019-12-17T18:55:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-11T14:55:03+00:00</published>
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commit 2952db0fd51b0890f728df94ac563c21407f4f43 upstream.

Many drivers have ioctl() handlers that are completely compatible between
32-bit and 64-bit architectures, except for the argument that is passed
down from user space and may have to be passed through compat_ptr()
in order to become a valid 64-bit pointer.

Using ".compat_ptr = compat_ptr_ioctl" in file operations should let
us simplify a lot of those drivers to avoid #ifdef checks, and convert
additional drivers that don't have proper compat handling yet.

On most architectures, the compat_ptr_ioctl() just passes all arguments
to the corresponding -&gt;ioctl handler. The exception is arch/s390, where
compat_ptr() clears the top bit of a 32-bit pointer value, so user space
pointers to the second 2GB alias the first 2GB, as is the case for native
32-bit s390 user space.

The compat_ptr_ioctl() function must therefore be used only with
ioctl functions that either ignore the argument or pass a pointer to a
compatible data type.

If any ioctl command handled by fops-&gt;unlocked_ioctl passes a plain
integer instead of a pointer, or any of the passed data types is
incompatible between 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, a proper handler
is required instead of compat_ptr_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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commit 2952db0fd51b0890f728df94ac563c21407f4f43 upstream.

Many drivers have ioctl() handlers that are completely compatible between
32-bit and 64-bit architectures, except for the argument that is passed
down from user space and may have to be passed through compat_ptr()
in order to become a valid 64-bit pointer.

Using ".compat_ptr = compat_ptr_ioctl" in file operations should let
us simplify a lot of those drivers to avoid #ifdef checks, and convert
additional drivers that don't have proper compat handling yet.

On most architectures, the compat_ptr_ioctl() just passes all arguments
to the corresponding -&gt;ioctl handler. The exception is arch/s390, where
compat_ptr() clears the top bit of a 32-bit pointer value, so user space
pointers to the second 2GB alias the first 2GB, as is the case for native
32-bit s390 user space.

The compat_ptr_ioctl() function must therefore be used only with
ioctl functions that either ignore the argument or pass a pointer to a
compatible data type.

If any ioctl command handled by fops-&gt;unlocked_ioctl passes a plain
integer instead of a pointer, or any of the passed data types is
incompatible between 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, a proper handler
is required instead of compat_ptr_ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function</title>
<updated>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-04T02:57:57+00:00</published>
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Nobody has actually used the type (VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE) argument
of the user address range verification function since we got rid of the
old racy i386-only code to walk page tables by hand.

It existed because the original 80386 would not honor the write protect
bit when in kernel mode, so you had to do COW by hand before doing any
user access.  But we haven't supported that in a long time, and these
days the 'type' argument is a purely historical artifact.

A discussion about extending 'user_access_begin()' to do the range
checking resulted this patch, because there is no way we're going to
move the old VERIFY_xyz interface to that model.  And it's best done at
the end of the merge window when I've done most of my merges, so let's
just get this done once and for all.

This patch was mostly done with a sed-script, with manual fix-ups for
the cases that weren't of the trivial 'access_ok(VERIFY_xyz' form.

There were a couple of notable cases:

 - csky still had the old "verify_area()" name as an alias.

 - the iter_iov code had magical hardcoded knowledge of the actual
   values of VERIFY_{READ,WRITE} (not that they mattered, since nothing
   really used it)

 - microblaze used the type argument for a debug printout

but other than those oddities this should be a total no-op patch.

I tried to fix up all architectures, did fairly extensive grepping for
access_ok() uses, and the changes are trivial, but I may have missed
something.  Any missed conversion should be trivially fixable, though.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2018-11-02T16:33:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-02T16:33:08+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs dedup fixes from Dave Chinner:
 "This reworks the vfs data cloning infrastructure.

  We discovered many issues with these interfaces late in the 4.19 cycle
  - the worst of them (data corruption, setuid stripping) were fixed for
  XFS in 4.19-rc8, but a larger rework of the infrastructure fixing all
  the problems was needed. That rework is the contents of this pull
  request.

  Rework the vfs_clone_file_range and vfs_dedupe_file_range
  infrastructure to use a common .remap_file_range method and supply
  generic bounds and sanity checking functions that are shared with the
  data write path. The current VFS infrastructure has problems with
  rlimit, LFS file sizes, file time stamps, maximum filesystem file
  sizes, stripping setuid bits, etc and so they are addressed in these
  commits.

  We also introduce the ability for the -&gt;remap_file_range methods to
  return short clones so that clones for vfs_copy_file_range() don't get
  rejected if the entire range can't be cloned. It also allows
  filesystems to sliently skip deduplication of partial EOF blocks if
  they are not capable of doing so without requiring errors to be thrown
  to userspace.

  Existing filesystems are converted to user the new remap_file_range
  method, and both XFS and ocfs2 are modified to make use of the new
  generic checking infrastructure"

* tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (28 commits)
  xfs: remove [cm]time update from reflink calls
  xfs: remove xfs_reflink_remap_range
  xfs: remove redundant remap partial EOF block checks
  xfs: support returning partial reflink results
  xfs: clean up xfs_reflink_remap_blocks call site
  xfs: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: remove ocfs2_reflink_remap_range
  ocfs2: support partial clone range and dedupe range
  ocfs2: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: truncate page cache for clone destination file before remapping
  vfs: clean up generic_remap_file_range_prep return value
  vfs: hide file range comparison function
  vfs: enable remap callers that can handle short operations
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs dedupe functions
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs clone functions
  vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completed
  vfs: remap helper should update destination inode metadata
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_checks
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_file_range_prep
  vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range
  ...
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Pull vfs dedup fixes from Dave Chinner:
 "This reworks the vfs data cloning infrastructure.

  We discovered many issues with these interfaces late in the 4.19 cycle
  - the worst of them (data corruption, setuid stripping) were fixed for
  XFS in 4.19-rc8, but a larger rework of the infrastructure fixing all
  the problems was needed. That rework is the contents of this pull
  request.

  Rework the vfs_clone_file_range and vfs_dedupe_file_range
  infrastructure to use a common .remap_file_range method and supply
  generic bounds and sanity checking functions that are shared with the
  data write path. The current VFS infrastructure has problems with
  rlimit, LFS file sizes, file time stamps, maximum filesystem file
  sizes, stripping setuid bits, etc and so they are addressed in these
  commits.

  We also introduce the ability for the -&gt;remap_file_range methods to
  return short clones so that clones for vfs_copy_file_range() don't get
  rejected if the entire range can't be cloned. It also allows
  filesystems to sliently skip deduplication of partial EOF blocks if
  they are not capable of doing so without requiring errors to be thrown
  to userspace.

  Existing filesystems are converted to user the new remap_file_range
  method, and both XFS and ocfs2 are modified to make use of the new
  generic checking infrastructure"

* tag 'xfs-4.20-merge-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (28 commits)
  xfs: remove [cm]time update from reflink calls
  xfs: remove xfs_reflink_remap_range
  xfs: remove redundant remap partial EOF block checks
  xfs: support returning partial reflink results
  xfs: clean up xfs_reflink_remap_blocks call site
  xfs: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: remove ocfs2_reflink_remap_range
  ocfs2: support partial clone range and dedupe range
  ocfs2: fix pagecache truncation prior to reflink
  ocfs2: truncate page cache for clone destination file before remapping
  vfs: clean up generic_remap_file_range_prep return value
  vfs: hide file range comparison function
  vfs: enable remap callers that can handle short operations
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs dedupe functions
  vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs clone functions
  vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completed
  vfs: remap helper should update destination inode metadata
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_checks
  vfs: pass remap flags to generic_remap_file_range_prep
  vfs: combine the clone and dedupe into a single remap_file_range
  ...
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<entry>
<title>vfs: plumb remap flags through the vfs clone functions</title>
<updated>2018-10-29T23:41:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-29T23:41:56+00:00</published>
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Plumb a remap_flags argument through the {do,vfs}_clone_file_range
functions so that clone can take advantage of it.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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Plumb a remap_flags argument through the {do,vfs}_clone_file_range
functions so that clone can take advantage of it.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>vfs: make remap_file_range functions take and return bytes completed</title>
<updated>2018-10-29T23:41:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Darrick J. Wong</name>
<email>darrick.wong@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-29T23:41:49+00:00</published>
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Change the remap_file_range functions to take a number of bytes to
operate upon and return the number of bytes they operated on.  This is a
requirement for allowing fs implementations to return short clone/dedupe
results to the user, which will enable us to obey resource limits in a
graceful manner.

A subsequent patch will enable copy_file_range to signal to the
-&gt;clone_file_range implementation that it can handle a short length,
which will be returned in the function's return value.  For now the
short return is not implemented anywhere so the behavior won't change --
either copy_file_range manages to clone the entire range or it tries an
alternative.

Neither clone ioctl can take advantage of this, alas.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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Change the remap_file_range functions to take a number of bytes to
operate upon and return the number of bytes they operated on.  This is a
requirement for allowing fs implementations to return short clone/dedupe
results to the user, which will enable us to obey resource limits in a
graceful manner.

A subsequent patch will enable copy_file_range to signal to the
-&gt;clone_file_range implementation that it can handle a short length,
which will be returned in the function's return value.  For now the
short return is not implemented anywhere so the behavior won't change --
either copy_file_range manages to clone the entire range or it tries an
alternative.

Neither clone ioctl can take advantage of this, alas.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner &lt;david@fromorbit.com&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: fix FIGETBSZ ioctl on an overlayfs file</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T21:34:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-11T14:38:14+00:00</published>
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Some anon_bdev filesystems (e.g. overlayfs, ceph) don't have s_blocksize
set. Returning zero from FIGETBSZ ioctl results in a Floating point
exception from the e2fsprogs utility filefrag, which divides the size of
the file with the value returned by FIGETBSZ.

Fix the interface by returning -EINVAL for these filesystems.

Fixes: d1d04ef8572b ("ovl: stack file ops")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.19
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Some anon_bdev filesystems (e.g. overlayfs, ceph) don't have s_blocksize
set. Returning zero from FIGETBSZ ioctl results in a Floating point
exception from the e2fsprogs utility filefrag, which divides the size of
the file with the value returned by FIGETBSZ.

Fix the interface by returning -EINVAL for these filesystems.

Fixes: d1d04ef8572b ("ovl: stack file ops")
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # v4.19
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range()</title>
<updated>2018-09-24T08:54:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-09-18T13:34:34+00:00</published>
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Commit 031a072a0b8a ("vfs: call vfs_clone_file_range() under freeze
protection") created a wrapper do_clone_file_range() around
vfs_clone_file_range() moving the freeze protection to former, so
overlayfs could call the latter.

The more common vfs practice is to call do_xxx helpers from vfs_xxx
helpers, where freeze protecction is taken in the vfs_xxx helper, so
this anomality could be a source of confusion.

It seems that commit 8ede205541ff ("ovl: add reflink/copyfile/dedup
support") may have fallen a victim to this confusion -
ovl_clone_file_range() calls the vfs_clone_file_range() helper in the
hope of getting freeze protection on upper fs, but in fact results in
overlayfs allowing to bypass upper fs freeze protection.

Swap the names of the two helpers to conform to common vfs practice
and call the correct helpers from overlayfs and nfsd.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Commit 031a072a0b8a ("vfs: call vfs_clone_file_range() under freeze
protection") created a wrapper do_clone_file_range() around
vfs_clone_file_range() moving the freeze protection to former, so
overlayfs could call the latter.

The more common vfs practice is to call do_xxx helpers from vfs_xxx
helpers, where freeze protecction is taken in the vfs_xxx helper, so
this anomality could be a source of confusion.

It seems that commit 8ede205541ff ("ovl: add reflink/copyfile/dedup
support") may have fallen a victim to this confusion -
ovl_clone_file_range() calls the vfs_clone_file_range() helper in the
hope of getting freeze protection on upper fs, but in fact results in
overlayfs allowing to bypass upper fs freeze protection.

Swap the names of the two helpers to conform to common vfs practice
and call the correct helpers from overlayfs and nfsd.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vfs: export vfs_ioctl() to modules</title>
<updated>2018-07-18T13:44:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Miklos Szeredi</name>
<email>mszeredi@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-07-18T13:44:40+00:00</published>
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This is needed by the stacked ioctl implementation in overlayfs.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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This is needed by the stacked ioctl implementation in overlayfs.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems</title>
<updated>2018-05-24T17:04:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seth Forshee</name>
<email>seth.forshee@canonical.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-15T20:35:35+00:00</published>
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The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
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The user in control of a super block should be allowed to freeze
and thaw it. Relax the restrictions on the FIFREEZE and FITHAW
ioctls to require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns.

Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@canonical.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian@brauner.io&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: add ksys_ioctl() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioctl()</title>
<updated>2018-04-02T18:16:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-13T20:43:59+00:00</published>
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_ioctl() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_ioctl().

After careful review, at least some of these calls could be converted
to do_vfs_ioctl() in future.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the
sys_ioctl() syscall. The ksys_ prefix denotes that this function
is meant as a drop-in replacement for the syscall. In particular, it
uses the same calling convention as sys_ioctl().

After careful review, at least some of these calls could be converted
to do_vfs_ioctl() in future.

This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls.
On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net

Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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