linux-toradex.git/fs/notify/fanotify, branch v3.2.51

fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()

2013-08-02T20:14:53+00:00

commit de1e0c40aceb9d5bff09c3a3b97b2f1b178af53f upstream.

The ->reserved field isn't cleared so we leak one byte of stack
information to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

fanotify: fix missing break

2012-11-16T16:47:12+00:00

commit 848561d368751a1c0f679b9f045a02944506a801 upstream.

Anders Blomdell noted in 2010 that Fanotify lost events and provided a
test case.  Eric Paris confirmed it was a bug and posted a fix to the
list

  https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/linux.kernel/RrJfTfyW2BE

but never applied it.  Repeated attempts over time to actually get him
to apply it have never had a reply from anyone who has raised it

So apply it anyway

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox 
Reported-by: Anders Blomdell 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

Remove one to many n's in a word

2011-03-01T14:47:58+00:00

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Merge branch 'master' into for-next

2010-12-22T17:57:02+00:00

Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.

fanotify: fill in the metadata_len field on struct fanotify_event_metadata

2010-12-15T18:58:18+00:00

The fanotify_event_metadata now has a field which is supposed to
indicate the length of the metadata portion of the event.  Fill in that
field as well.

Based-in-part-on-patch-by: Alexey Zaytsev 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fanotify: Dont try to open a file descriptor for the overflow event

2010-12-07T21:14:24+00:00

We should not try to open a file descriptor for the overflow event since this
will always fail.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fanotify: do not leak user reference on allocation failure

2010-12-07T21:14:23+00:00

If fanotify_init is unable to allocate a new fsnotify group it will
return but will not drop its reference on the associated user struct.
Drop that reference on error.

Reported-by: Vegard Nossum 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fanotify: on group destroy allow all waiters to bypass permission check

2010-12-07T21:14:22+00:00

When fanotify_release() is called, there may still be processes waiting for
access permission. Currently only processes for which an event has already been
queued into the groups access list will be woken up.  Processes for which no
event has been queued will continue to sleep and thus cause a deadlock when
fsnotify_put_group() is called.
Furthermore there is a race allowing further processes to be waiting on the
access wait queue after wake_up (if they arrive before clear_marks_by_group()
is called).
This patch corrects this by setting a flag to inform processes that the group
is about to be destroyed and thus not to wait for access permission.

[additional changelog from eparis]
Lets think about the 4 relevant code paths from the PoV of the
'operator' 'listener' 'responder' and 'closer'.  Where operator is the
process doing an action (like open/read) which could require permission.
Listener is the task (or in this case thread) slated with reading from
the fanotify file descriptor.  The 'responder' is the thread responsible
for responding to access requests.  'Closer' is the thread attempting to
close the fanotify file descriptor.

The 'operator' is going to end up in:
fanotify_handle_event()
  get_response_from_access()
    (THIS BLOCKS WAITING ON USERSPACE)

The 'listener' interesting code path
fanotify_read()
  copy_event_to_user()
    prepare_for_access_response()
      (THIS CREATES AN fanotify_response_event)

The 'responder' code path:
fanotify_write()
  process_access_response()
    (REMOVE A fanotify_response_event, SET RESPONSE, WAKE UP 'operator')

The 'closer':
fanotify_release()
  (SUPPOSED TO CLEAN UP THE REST OF THIS MESS)

What we have today is that in the closer we remove all of the
fanotify_response_events and set a bit so no more response events are
ever created in prepare_for_access_response().

The bug is that we never wake all of the operators up and tell them to
move along.  You fix that in fanotify_get_response_from_access().  You
also fix other operators which haven't gotten there yet.  So I agree
that's a good fix.
[/additional changelog from eparis]

[remove additional changes to minimize patch size]
[move initialization so it was inside CONFIG_FANOTIFY_PERMISSION]

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris

fanotify: Dont allow a mask of 0 if setting or removing a mark

2010-12-07T21:14:21+00:00

In mark_remove_from_mask() we destroy marks that have their event mask cleared.
Thus we should not allow the creation of those marks in the first place.
With this patch we check if the mask given from user is 0 in case of FAN_MARK_ADD.
If so we return an error. Same for FAN_MARK_REMOVE since this does not have any
effect.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris