linux-stable.git/fs/notify, branch v3.17.2

fanotify: enable close-on-exec on events' fd when requested in fanotify_init()

2014-10-30T16:43:15+00:00

commit 0b37e097a648aa71d4db1ad108001e95b69a2da4 upstream.

According to commit 80af258867648 ("fanotify: groups can specify their
f_flags for new fd"), file descriptors created as part of file access
notification events inherit flags from the event_f_flags argument passed
to syscall fanotify_init(2)[1].

Unfortunately O_CLOEXEC is currently silently ignored.

Indeed, event_f_flags are only given to dentry_open(), which only seems to
care about O_ACCMODE and O_PATH in do_dentry_open(), O_DIRECT in
open_check_o_direct() and O_LARGEFILE in generic_file_open().

It's a pity, since, according to some lookup on various search engines and
http://codesearch.debian.net/, there's already some userspace code which
use O_CLOEXEC:

- in systemd's readahead[2]:

    fanotify_fd = fanotify_init(FAN_CLOEXEC|FAN_NONBLOCK, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE|O_CLOEXEC|O_NOATIME);

- in clsync[3]:

    #define FANOTIFY_EVFLAGS (O_LARGEFILE|O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC)

    int fanotify_d = fanotify_init(FANOTIFY_FLAGS, FANOTIFY_EVFLAGS);

- in examples [4] from "Filesystem monitoring in the Linux
  kernel" article[5] by Aleksander Morgado:

    if ((fanotify_fd = fanotify_init (FAN_CLOEXEC,
                                      O_RDONLY | O_CLOEXEC | O_LARGEFILE)) < 0)

Additionally, since commit 48149e9d3a7e ("fanotify: check file flags
passed in fanotify_init").  having O_CLOEXEC as part of fanotify_init()
second argument is expressly allowed.

So it seems expected to set close-on-exec flag on the file descriptors if
userspace is allowed to request it with O_CLOEXEC.

But Andrew Morton raised[6] the concern that enabling now close-on-exec
might break existing applications which ask for O_CLOEXEC but expect the
file descriptor to be inherited across exec().

In the other hand, as reported by Mihai Dontu[7] close-on-exec on the file
descriptor returned as part of file access notify can break applications
due to deadlock.  So close-on-exec is needed for most applications.

More, applications asking for close-on-exec are likely expecting it to be
enabled, relying on O_CLOEXEC being effective.  If not, it might weaken
their security, as noted by Jan Kara[8].

So this patch replaces call to macro get_unused_fd() by a call to function
get_unused_fd_flags() with event_f_flags value as argument.  This way
O_CLOEXEC flag in the second argument of fanotify_init(2) syscall is
interpreted and close-on-exec get enabled when requested.

[1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/fanotify_init.2.html
[2] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/readahead/readahead-collect.c?id=v208#n294
[3] https://github.com/xaionaro/clsync/blob/v0.2.1/sync.c#L1631
    https://github.com/xaionaro/clsync/blob/v0.2.1/configuration.h#L38
[4] http://www.lanedo.com/~aleksander/fanotify/fanotify-example.c
[5] http://www.lanedo.com/2013/filesystem-monitoring-linux-kernel/
[6] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141001153621.65e9258e65a6167bf2e4cb50@linux-foundation.org
[7] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141002095046.3715eb69@mdontu-l
[8] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141002104410.GB19748@quack.suse.cz

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1411562410.git.ydroneaud@opteya.com
Signed-off-by: Yann Droneaud 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Reviewed by: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Tested-by: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Cc: Mihai Don\u021bu 
Cc: Pádraig Brady 
Cc: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk-manpages 
Cc: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Richard Guy Briggs 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/notify: don't show f_handle if exportfs_encode_inode_fh failed

2014-09-10T22:42:12+00:00

Currently we handle only ENOSPC.  In case of other errors the file_handle
variable isn't filled properly and we will show a part of stack.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fsnotify/fdinfo: use named constants instead of hardcoded values

2014-09-10T22:42:12+00:00

MAX_HANDLE_SZ is equal to 128, but currently the size of pad is only 64
bytes, so exportfs_encode_inode_fh can return an error.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Vagin 
Acked-by: Cyrill Gorcunov 
Cc: Alexander Viro 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

list: fix order of arguments for hlist_add_after(_rcu)

2014-08-07T01:01:24+00:00

All other add functions for lists have the new item as first argument
and the position where it is added as second argument.  This was changed
for no good reason in this function and makes using it unnecessary
confusing.

The name was changed to hlist_add_behind() to cause unconverted code to
generate a compile error instead of using the wrong parameter order.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ken Helias 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher 	[intel driver bits]
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events

2014-08-07T01:01:12+00:00

Commit 85816794240b ("fanotify: Fix use after free for permission
events") introduced a double free issue for permission events which are
pending in group's notification queue while group is being destroyed.
These events are freed from fanotify_handle_event() but they are not
removed from groups notification queue and thus they get freed again
from fsnotify_flush_notify().

Fix the problem by removing permission events from notification queue
before freeing them if we skip processing access response.  Also expand
comments in fanotify_release() to explain group shutdown in detail.

Fixes: 85816794240b9659e66e4d9b0df7c6e814e5f603
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Reported-by: Douglas Leeder 
Tested-by: Douglas Leeder 
Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchard 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fsnotify: rename event handling functions

2014-08-07T01:01:12+00:00

Rename fsnotify_add_notify_event() to fsnotify_add_event() since the
"notify" part is duplicit.  Rename fsnotify_remove_notify_event() and
fsnotify_peek_notify_event() to fsnotify_remove_first_event() and
fsnotify_peek_first_event() respectively since "notify" part is duplicit
and they really look at the first event in the queue.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

inotify: convert use of typedef ctl_table to struct ctl_table

2014-06-06T23:08:16+00:00

This typedef is unnecessary and should just be removed.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: check file flags passed in fanotify_init

2014-06-04T23:53:52+00:00

Without this patch fanotify_init does not validate the value passed in
event_f_flags.

When a fanotify event is read from the fanotify file descriptor a new
file descriptor is created where file.f_flags = event_f_flags.

Internal and external open flags are stored together in field f_flags of
struct file.  Hence, an application might create file descriptors with
internal flags like FMODE_EXEC, FMODE_NOCMTIME set.

Jan Kara and Eric Paris both aggreed that this is a bug and the value of
event_f_flags should be checked:
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/29/522
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/29/539

This updated patch version considers the comments by Michael Kerrisk in
  https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/5/4/10

With the patch the value of event_f_flags is checked.
When specifying an invalid value error EINVAL is returned.

Internal flags are disallowed.

File creation flags are disallowed:
O_CREAT, O_DIRECTORY, O_EXCL, O_NOCTTY, O_NOFOLLOW, O_TRUNC, and O_TTY_INIT.

Flags which do not make sense with fanotify are disallowed:
__O_TMPFILE, O_PATH, FASYNC, and O_DIRECT.

This leaves us with the following allowed values:

O_RDONLY, O_WRONLY, O_RDWR are basic functionality. The are stored in the
bits given by O_ACCMODE.

O_APPEND is working as expected. The value might be useful in a logging
application which appends the current status each time the log is opened.

O_LARGEFILE is needed for files exceeding 4GB on 32bit systems.

O_NONBLOCK may be useful when monitoring slow devices like tapes.

O_NDELAY is equal to O_NONBLOCK except for platform parisc.
To avoid code breaking on parisc either both flags should be
allowed or none. The patch allows both.

__O_SYNC and O_DSYNC may be used to avoid data loss on power disruption.

O_NOATIME may be useful to reduce disk activity.

O_CLOEXEC may be useful, if separate processes shall be used to scan files.

Once this patch is accepted, the fanotify_init.2 manpage has to be updated.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Cc: Michael Kerrisk 
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c: fix FAN_MARK_FLUSH flag checking

2014-06-04T23:53:52+00:00

If fanotify_mark is called with illegal value of arguments flags and
marks it usually returns EINVAL.

When fanotify_mark is called with FAN_MARK_FLUSH the argument flags is
not checked for irrelevant flags like FAN_MARK_IGNORED_MASK.

The patch removes this inconsistency.

If an irrelevant flag is set error EINVAL is returned.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fs/notify/mark.c: trivial cleanup

2014-06-04T23:53:52+00:00

Do not initialize private_destroy_list twice.  list_replace_init()
already takes care of initializing private_destroy_list.  We don't need
to initialize it with LIST_HEAD() beforehand.

Signed-off-by: David Cohen 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds