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<title>configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup</title>
<updated>2013-11-22T00:42:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Junxiao Bi</name>
<email>junxiao.bi@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-21T22:31:56+00:00</published>
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A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end
before configfs_d_iput is called.  In this window, if a lookup happen,
since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be
allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd-&gt;s_dentry will be
updated to the new dentry.  Then in configfs_d_iput(),
BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic.

sys_open:                     sys_close:
 ...                           fput
                                dput
                                 dentry_kill
                                  __d_drop &lt;--- dentry unhashed here,
                                           but sd-&gt;dentry still point
                                           to this dentry.

 lookup_real
  configfs_lookup
   configfs_attach_attr---&gt; update sd-&gt;s_dentry
                            to new allocated dentry here.

                                   d_kill
                                     configfs_d_iput &lt;--- BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry)
                                                     triggered here.

To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd-&gt;s_dentry if
sd-&gt;s_count &gt; 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd
beside the one that is going to be put.  Use configfs_dirent_lock in
configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput.

With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug.

1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and
   fill configure in it.

2. run the following script.
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi &lt;junxiao.bi@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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A race window in configfs, it starts from one dentry is UNHASHED and end
before configfs_d_iput is called.  In this window, if a lookup happen,
since the original dentry was UNHASHED, so a new dentry will be
allocated, and then in configfs_attach_attr(), sd-&gt;s_dentry will be
updated to the new dentry.  Then in configfs_d_iput(),
BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry) will be triggered and system panic.

sys_open:                     sys_close:
 ...                           fput
                                dput
                                 dentry_kill
                                  __d_drop &lt;--- dentry unhashed here,
                                           but sd-&gt;dentry still point
                                           to this dentry.

 lookup_real
  configfs_lookup
   configfs_attach_attr---&gt; update sd-&gt;s_dentry
                            to new allocated dentry here.

                                   d_kill
                                     configfs_d_iput &lt;--- BUG_ON(sd-&gt;s_dentry != dentry)
                                                     triggered here.

To fix it, change configfs_d_iput to not update sd-&gt;s_dentry if
sd-&gt;s_count &gt; 2, that means there are another dentry is using the sd
beside the one that is going to be put.  Use configfs_dirent_lock in
configfs_attach_attr to sync with configfs_d_iput.

With the following steps, you can reproduce the bug.

1. enable ocfs2, this will mount configfs at /sys/kernel/config and
   fill configure in it.

2. run the following script.
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;
	while [ 1 ]; do cat /sys/kernel/config/cluster/$your_cluster_name/idle_timeout_ms &gt; /dev/null; done &amp;

Signed-off-by: Junxiao Bi &lt;junxiao.bi@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>consolidate simple -&gt;d_delete() instances</title>
<updated>2013-11-16T03:04:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-10-25T22:47:37+00:00</published>
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Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Rename simple_delete_dentry() to always_delete_dentry() and export it.
Export simple_dentry_operations, while we are at it, and get rid of
their duplicates

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T18:42:26+00:00</published>
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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Pull more vfs stuff from Al Viro:
 "O_TMPFILE ABI changes, Oleg's fput() series, misc cleanups, including
  making simple_lookup() usable for filesystems with non-NULL s_d_op,
  which allows us to get rid of quite a bit of ugliness"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  sunrpc: now we can just set -&gt;s_d_op
  cgroup: we can use simple_lookup() now
  efivarfs: we can use simple_lookup() now
  make simple_lookup() usable for filesystems that set -&gt;s_d_op
  configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()
  __rpc_lookup_create_exclusive: pass string instead of qstr
  rpc_create_*_dir: don't bother with qstr
  llist: llist_add() can use llist_add_batch()
  llist: fix/simplify llist_add() and llist_add_batch()
  fput: turn "list_head delayed_fput_list" into llist_head
  fs/file_table.c:fput(): add comment
  Safer ABI for O_TMPFILE
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<entry>
<title>configfs: don't open-code d_alloc_name()</title>
<updated>2013-07-14T13:16:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-14T13:16:52+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>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-07-09T18:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-09T18:26:44+00:00</published>
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Pull third set of VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc stuff all over the place.  There will be one more pile in a
  couple of days"

This is an "evil merge" that also uses the new d_count helper in
fs/configfs/dir.c, missed by commit 84d08fa888e7 ("helper for reading
-&gt;d_count")

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ncpfs: fix error return code in ncp_parse_options()
  locks: move file_lock_list to a set of percpu hlist_heads and convert file_lock_lock to an lglock
  seq_file: add seq_list_*_percpu helpers
  f2fs: fix readdir incorrectness
  mode_t whack-a-mole...
  lustre: kill the pointless wrapper
  helper for reading -&gt;d_count
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Pull third set of VFS updates from Al Viro:
 "Misc stuff all over the place.  There will be one more pile in a
  couple of days"

This is an "evil merge" that also uses the new d_count helper in
fs/configfs/dir.c, missed by commit 84d08fa888e7 ("helper for reading
-&gt;d_count")

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  ncpfs: fix error return code in ncp_parse_options()
  locks: move file_lock_list to a set of percpu hlist_heads and convert file_lock_lock to an lglock
  seq_file: add seq_list_*_percpu helpers
  f2fs: fix readdir incorrectness
  mode_t whack-a-mole...
  lustre: kill the pointless wrapper
  helper for reading -&gt;d_count
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<entry>
<title>configfs: use capped length for -&gt;store_attribute()</title>
<updated>2013-07-03T23:07:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Carpenter</name>
<email>dan.carpenter@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-07-03T22:00:45+00:00</published>
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The difference between "count" and "len" is that "len" is capped at
4095.  Changing it like this makes it match how sysfs_write_file() is
implemented.

This is a static analysis patch.  I haven't found any store_attribute()
functions where this change makes a difference.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The difference between "count" and "len" is that "len" is capped at
4095.  Changing it like this makes it match how sysfs_write_file() is
implemented.

This is a static analysis patch.  I haven't found any store_attribute()
functions where this change makes a difference.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Joel Becker &lt;jlbec@evilplan.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[readdir] convert configfs</title>
<updated>2013-06-29T08:56:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2013-05-16T05:28:34+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: 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>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing -&gt;d_name/-&gt;d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has -&gt;d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both -&gt;f_pos and -&gt;f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
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Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing -&gt;d_name/-&gt;d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has -&gt;d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file
  to inode.  Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes.

  Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from
  several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then.

  PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits)
  saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions
  proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super()
  fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM
  fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static
  ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock
  ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO
  ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path
  get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both -&gt;f_pos and -&gt;f_version zero
  target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless
  export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances
  fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type
  kill f_vfsmnt
  vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op
  nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol
  switch vfs_getattr() to struct path
  default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h
  ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted
  d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances
  9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate()
  9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl()
  ...
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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>
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<published>2013-01-23T22:07:38+00:00</published>
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