linux-toradex.git/fs/fuse/inode.c, branch v3.10.38

fuse: hotfix truncate_pagecache() issue

2013-09-27T00:18:30+00:00

commit 06a7c3c2781409af95000c60a5df743fd4e2f8b4 upstream.

The way how fuse calls truncate_pagecache() from fuse_change_attributes()
is completely wrong. Because, w/o i_mutex held, we never sure whether
'oldsize' and 'attr->size' are valid by the time of execution of
truncate_pagecache(inode, oldsize, attr->size). In fact, as soon as we
released fc->lock in the middle of fuse_change_attributes(), we completely
loose control of actions which may happen with given inode until we reach
truncate_pagecache. The list of potentially dangerous actions includes
mmap-ed reads and writes, ftruncate(2) and write(2) extending file size.

The typical outcome of doing truncate_pagecache() with outdated arguments
is data corruption from user point of view. This is (in some sense)
acceptable in cases when the issue is triggered by a change of the file on
the server (i.e. externally wrt fuse operation), but it is absolutely
intolerable in scenarios when a single fuse client modifies a file without
any external intervention. A real life case I discovered by fsx-linux
looked like this:

1. Shrinking ftruncate(2) comes to fuse_do_setattr(). The latter sends
FUSE_SETATTR to the server synchronously, but before getting fc->lock ...
2. fuse_dentry_revalidate() is asynchronously called. It sends FUSE_LOOKUP
to the server synchronously, then calls fuse_change_attributes(). The
latter updates i_size, releases fc->lock, but before comparing oldsize vs
attr->size..
3. fuse_do_setattr() from the first step proceeds by acquiring fc->lock and
updating attributes and i_size, but now oldsize is equal to
outarg.attr.size because i_size has just been updated (step 2). Hence,
fuse_do_setattr() returns w/o calling truncate_pagecache().
4. As soon as ftruncate(2) completes, the user extends file size by
write(2) making a hole in the middle of file, then reads data from the hole
either by read(2) or mmap-ed read. The user expects to get zero data from
the hole, but gets stale data because truncate_pagecache() is not executed
yet.

The scenario above illustrates one side of the problem: not truncating the
page cache even though we should. Another side corresponds to truncating
page cache too late, when the state of inode changed significantly.
Theoretically, the following is possible:

1. As in the previous scenario fuse_dentry_revalidate() discovered that
i_size changed (due to our own fuse_do_setattr()) and is going to call
truncate_pagecache() for some 'new_size' it believes valid right now. But
by the time that particular truncate_pagecache() is called ...
2. fuse_do_setattr() returns (either having called truncate_pagecache() or
not -- it doesn't matter).
3. The file is extended either by write(2) or ftruncate(2) or fallocate(2).
4. mmap-ed write makes a page in the extended region dirty.

The result will be the lost of data user wrote on the fourth step.

The patch is a hotfix resolving the issue in a simplistic way: let's skip
dangerous i_size update and truncate_pagecache if an operation changing
file size is in progress. This simplistic approach looks correct for the
cases w/o external changes. And to handle them properly, more sophisticated
and intrusive techniques (e.g. NFS-like one) would be required. I'd like to
postpone it until the issue is well discussed on the mailing list(s).

Changed in v2:
 - improved patch description to cover both sides of the issue.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: fix readdirplus Oops in fuse_dentry_revalidate

2013-06-03T12:40:22+00:00

Fix bug introduced by commit 4582a4ab2a "FUSE: Adapt readdirplus to application
usage patterns".

We need to check for a positive dentry; negative dentries are not added by
readdirplus.  Secondly we need to advise the use of readdirplus on the *parent*,
otherwise the whole thing is useless.  Thirdly all this is only relevant if
"readdirplus_auto" mode is selected by the filesystem.

We advise the use of readdirplus only if the dentry was still valid.  If we had
to redo the lookup then there was no use in doing the -plus version.

Reported-by: Bernd Schubert 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi 
CC: Feng Shuo 
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org

fuse: add flag to turn on async direct IO

2013-05-01T12:37:21+00:00

Without async DIO write requests to a single file were always serialized.
With async DIO that's no longer the case.

So don't turn on async DIO by default for fear of breaking backward
compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: skip blocking on allocations of synchronous requests

2013-04-17T10:31:45+00:00

A task may have at most one synchronous request allocated. So these
requests need not be otherwise limited.

The patch re-works fuse_get_req() to follow this idea.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: add flag fc->initialized

2013-04-17T10:31:44+00:00

Existing flag fc->blocked is used to suspend request allocation both in case
of many background request submitted and period of time before init_reply
arrives from userspace. Next patch will skip blocking allocations of
synchronous request (disregarding fc->blocked). This is mostly OK, but
we still need to suspend allocations if init_reply is not arrived yet. The
patch introduces flag fc->initialized which will serve this purpose.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

fuse: make request allocations for background processing explicit

2013-04-17T10:31:44+00:00

There are two types of processing requests in FUSE: synchronous (via
fuse_request_send()) and asynchronous (via adding to fc->bg_queue).

Fortunately, the type of processing is always known in advance, at the time
of request allocation. This preparatory patch utilizes this fact making
fuse_get_req() aware about the type. Next patches will use it.

Signed-off-by: Maxim Patlasov 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi

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"

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-02-27T04:16:07+00:00

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent
  locking violations, etc.

  The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with
  "has ->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 ->f_pos and ->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()
  ...

fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type

2013-02-26T07:46:10+00:00

This patch is a follow up on below patch:

[PATCH] exportfs: add FILEID_INVALID to indicate invalid fid_type
commit: 216b6cbdcbd86b1db0754d58886b466ae31f5a63

Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon 
Signed-off-by: Vivek Trivedi 
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse 
Acked-by: Sage Weil 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fuse: allow control of adaptive readdirplus use

2013-02-07T13:25:44+00:00

For some filesystems (e.g. GlusterFS), the cost of performing a
normal readdir and readdirplus are identical.  Since adaptively
using readdirplus has no benefit for those systems, give
users/filesystems the option to control adaptive readdirplus use.

v2 of this patch incorporates Miklos's suggestion to simplify the code,
as well as improving consistency of macro names and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Wong 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi