linux.git/fs/afs/super.c, branch v4.2

VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations

2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00

that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.

2013-03-04T03:36:31+00:00

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 
Acked-by: Kees Cook 
Reported-by: Kees Cook 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

afs: Only allow mounting afs in the intial network namespace

2013-02-13T14:00:38+00:00

rxrpc sockets only work in the initial network namespace so it isn't
possible to support afs in any other network namespace.

Cc: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

fs: push rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() to filesystems

2012-10-03T01:35:55+00:00

There's no reason to call rcu_barrier() on every
deactivate_locked_super().  We only need to make sure that all delayed rcu
free inodes are flushed before we destroy related cache.

Removing rcu_barrier() from deactivate_locked_super() affects some fast
paths.  E.g.  on my machine exit_group() of a last process in IPC
namespace takes 0.07538s.  rcu_barrier() takes 0.05188s of that time.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

VFS: Pass mount flags to sget()

2012-07-14T12:38:34+00:00

Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called.  They could also be passed to the
compare function.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch open-coded instances of d_make_root() to new helper

2012-03-21T01:29:35+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: fix the stupidity with i_dentry in inode destructors

2012-01-04T03:52:40+00:00

Seeing that just about every destructor got that INIT_LIST_HEAD() copied into
it, there is no point whatsoever keeping this INIT_LIST_HEAD in inode_init_once();
the cost of taking it into inode_init_always() will be negligible for pipes
and sockets and negative for everything else.  Not to mention the removal of
boilerplate code from ->destroy_inode() instances...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

AFS: Set s_id in the superblock to the volume name

2011-06-16T15:44:47+00:00

Set s_id in the superblock to the name of the AFS volume that this superblock
corresponds to.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

afs: fix sget() races, close leak on umount

2011-06-12T21:45:36+00:00

* set ->s_fs_info in set() callback passed to sget()
* allocate the thing and set it up enough for afs_test_super() before
making it visible
* have it freed in ->kill_sb() (current tree simply leaks it)
* have ->put_super() leave ->s_fs_info->volume alone; it's too early for
dropping it; do that from ->kill_sb() after having called kill_anon_super().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch afs

2011-01-13T01:04:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro