linux.git/fs/pstore/inode.c, branch v4.2 Linux kernel source tree sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point 2015-07-01T15:36:47+00:00 Eric W. Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com 2015-05-13T22:35:41+00:00 f9bb48825a6b5d02f4cabcc78967c75db903dcdc This allows for better documentation in the code and it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of fs_fully_visible to be written. The mount points converted and their filesystems are: /sys/hypervisor/s390/ s390_hypfs /sys/kernel/config/ configfs /sys/kernel/debug/ debugfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ efivarfs /sys/fs/fuse/connections/ fusectl /sys/fs/pstore/ pstore /sys/kernel/tracing/ tracefs /sys/fs/cgroup/ cgroup /sys/kernel/security/ securityfs /sys/fs/selinux/ selinuxfs /sys/fs/smackfs/ smackfs Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> 
This allows for better documentation in the code and
it allows for a simpler and fully correct version of
fs_fully_visible to be written.

The mount points converted and their filesystems are:
/sys/hypervisor/s390/       s390_hypfs
/sys/kernel/config/         configfs
/sys/kernel/debug/          debugfs
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars/  efivarfs
/sys/fs/fuse/connections/   fusectl
/sys/fs/pstore/             pstore
/sys/kernel/tracing/        tracefs
/sys/fs/cgroup/             cgroup
/sys/kernel/security/       securityfs
/sys/fs/selinux/            selinuxfs
/sys/fs/smackfs/            smackfs

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2015-04-27T00:22:07+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2015-04-26T22:48:49+00:00 9ec3a646fe09970f801ab15e0f1694060b9f19af Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro: "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems fs/9p: fix readdir() VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only 
Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
 "d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
  the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
  fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
  direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
  fs/9p: fix readdir()
  VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
  VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
  VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
  VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
  VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations 2015-04-15T19:06:57+00:00 David Howells dhowells@redhat.com 2015-03-17T22:25:59+00:00 2b0143b5c986be1ce8408b3aadc4709e0a94429d that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 
that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
pstore: Add pstore type id for PPC64 opal nvram partition 2015-03-23T03:06:10+00:00 Hari Bathini hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2015-02-05T19:36:28+00:00 ae011d2e48d2e6c2ae29fd8aab439caf2fbfb5a8 This patch adds a new PPC64 partition type to be used for opal specific nvram partition. A new partition type is needed as none of the existing type matches this partition type. Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> 
This patch adds a new PPC64 partition type to be used for opal
specific nvram partition. A new partition type is needed as none
of the existing type matches this partition type.

Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
pstore: Add pmsg - user-space accessible pstore object 2015-01-17T00:01:10+00:00 Mark Salyzyn salyzyn@android.com 2015-01-17T00:01:10+00:00 9d5438f462abd6398cdb7b3211bdcec271873a3b A secured user-space accessible pstore object. Writes to /dev/pmsg0 are appended to the buffer, on reboot the persistent contents are available in /sys/fs/pstore/pmsg-ramoops-[ID]. One possible use is syslogd, or other daemon, can write messages, then on reboot provides a means to triage user-space activities leading up to a panic as a companion to the pstore dmesg or console logs. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 
A secured user-space accessible pstore object. Writes
to /dev/pmsg0 are appended to the buffer, on reboot
the persistent contents are available in
/sys/fs/pstore/pmsg-ramoops-[ID].

One possible use is syslogd, or other daemon, can
write messages, then on reboot provides a means to
triage user-space activities leading up to a panic
as a companion to the pstore dmesg or console logs.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
pstore: Use scnprintf() in pstore_mkfile() 2015-01-16T23:30:50+00:00 Mark Salyzyn salyzyn@android.com 2015-01-06T19:18:24+00:00 dbaffde76405012778b8815b7721554b1302038e No guarantees that the names will not exceed the name buffer with future adjustments. Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 
No guarantees that the names will not exceed the
name buffer with future adjustments.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
pstore: Honor dmesg_restrict sysctl on dmesg dumps 2014-11-05T17:59:48+00:00 Sebastian Schmidt yath@yath.de 2014-10-19T18:05:15+00:00 68c4a4f8abc60c9440ede9cd123d48b78325f7a3 When the kernel.dmesg_restrict restriction is in place, only users with CAP_SYSLOG should be able to access crash dumps (like: attacker is trying to exploit a bug, watchdog reboots, attacker can happily read crash dumps and logs). This puts the restriction on console-* types as well as sensitive information could have been leaked there. Other log types are unaffected. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schmidt <yath@yath.de> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 
When the kernel.dmesg_restrict restriction is in place, only users with
CAP_SYSLOG should be able to access crash dumps (like: attacker is
trying to exploit a bug, watchdog reboots, attacker can happily read
crash dumps and logs).

This puts the restriction on console-* types as well as sensitive
information could have been leaked there.

Other log types are unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Schmidt <yath@yath.de>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
pstore: Fix duplicate {console,ftrace}-efi entries 2014-10-15T20:51:33+00:00 Valdis Kletnieks Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 2014-10-13T03:09:08+00:00 d4bf205da618bbd0b038e404d646f14e76915718 The pstore filesystem still creates duplicate filename/inode pairs for some pstore types. Add the id to the filename to prevent that. Before patch: [/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li total 0 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi 1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi After: [/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li total 0 1232 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499100000 1231 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499200000 1230 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705400000 1229 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705500000 1228 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 20:42 console-efi-141203772600000 1227 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204854900000 1226 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204855000000 1225 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954200000 1224 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954400000 Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6+ Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 
The pstore filesystem still creates duplicate filename/inode pairs for
some pstore types.  Add the id to the filename to prevent that.

Before patch:

[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi
1250 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi

After:

[/sys/fs/pstore] ls -li
total 0
1232 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499100000
1231 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 17:09 console-efi-141202499200000
1230 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705400000
1229 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 17:44 console-efi-141202705500000
1228 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 20:42 console-efi-141203772600000
1227 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204854900000
1226 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 23:42 console-efi-141204855000000
1225 -r--r--r--. 1 root root 148 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954200000
1224 -r--r--r--. 1 root root  67 Sep 29 23:59 console-efi-141204954400000

Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.6+
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
fs: push sync_filesystem() down to the file system's remount_fs() 2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00 Theodore Ts'o tytso@mit.edu 2014-03-13T14:14:33+00:00 02b9984d640873b7b3809e63f81a0d7e13496886 Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied, unconditional syncfs(). This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful, except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting remounted read-only. However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are actually depending on this behavior. In most file systems, it's probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something like romfs). Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net> Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name> Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org 
Previously, the no-op "mount -o mount /dev/xxx" operation when the
file system is already mounted read-write causes an implied,
unconditional syncfs().  This seems pretty stupid, and it's certainly
documented or guaraunteed to do this, nor is it particularly useful,
except in the case where the file system was mounted rw and is getting
remounted read-only.

However, it's possible that there might be some file systems that are
actually depending on this behavior.  In most file systems, it's
probably fine to only call sync_filesystem() when transitioning from
read-write to read-only, and there are some file systems where this is
not needed at all (for example, for a pseudo-filesystem or something
like romfs).

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Anders Larsen <al@alarsen.net>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@squashfs.org.uk>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: samba-technical@lists.samba.org
Cc: codalist@coda.cs.cmu.edu
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org
pstore: Add file extension to pstore file if compressed 2013-08-19T18:53:27+00:00 Aruna Balakrishnaiah aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2013-08-16T20:53:39+00:00 9ad2cbe0a9b88ee6ee895d03b2c63fa1252c8e52 In case decompression fails, add a ".enc.z" to indicate the file has compressed data. This will help user space utilities to figure out the file contents. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> 
In case decompression fails, add a ".enc.z" to indicate the file has
compressed data. This will help user space utilities to figure
out the file contents.

Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah <aruna@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>