linux-toradex.git/fs/notify, branch v3.11.4

fsnotify: update comments concerning locking scheme

2013-07-09T17:33:20+00:00

There have been changes in the locking scheme of fsnotify but the
comments in the source code have not been updated yet.  This patch
corrects this.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

inotify: fix race when adding a new watch

2013-07-09T17:33:20+00:00

In inotify_new_watch() the number of watches for a group is compared
against the max number of allowed watches and increased afterwards.  The
check and incrementation is not done atomically, so it is possible for
multiple concurrent threads to pass the check and increment the number
of marks above the allowed max.

This patch uses an inotify groups mark_lock to ensure that both check
and incrementation are done atomic.  Furthermore we dont have to worry
about the race that allows a concurrent thread to add a watch just after
inotify_update_existing_watch() returned with -ENOENT anymore, since
this is also synchronized by the groups mark mutex now.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

dnotify: replace dnotify_mark_mutex with mark mutex of dnotify_group

2013-07-09T17:33:20+00:00

There is no need to use a special mutex to protect against the
fcntl/close race (see dnotify.c for a description of this race).
Instead the dnotify_groups mark mutex can be used.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: put duplicate code for adding vfsmount/inode marks into an own function

2013-07-09T17:33:20+00:00

The code under the groups mark_mutex in fanotify_add_inode_mark() and
fanotify_add_vfsmount_mark() is almost identical.  So put it into a
seperate function.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: fix races when adding/removing marks

2013-07-09T17:33:19+00:00

For both adding an event to an existing mark and destroying a mark we
first have to find it via fsnotify_find_[inode|vfsmount]_mark().  But
getting the mark and adding an event (or destroying it) is not done
atomically.  This opens a race where a thread is about to destroy a mark
while another thread still finds the same mark and adds an event to its
mask although it will be destroyed.

Another race exists concerning the excess of a groups number of marks
limit: When a mark is added the number of group marks is checked against
the max number of marks per group and increased afterwards.  Since check
and increment is also not done atomically, this may result in 2 or more
processes passing the check at the same time and increasing the number
of group marks above the allowed limit.

With this patch both races are avoided by doing the concerning
operations with the groups mark mutex locked.

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo 
Cc: Eric Paris 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fanotify: info leak in copy_event_to_user()

2013-07-09T17:33:19+00:00

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

fanotify: quit wanking with FASYNC in ->release()

2013-06-29T08:57:23+00:00

... especially since there's no way to get that sucker
on the list fsnotify_fasync() works with - the only thing
adding to it is fsnotify_fasync() itself and it's never
called for fanotify files while they are opened.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE

2013-05-09T17:46:38+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

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

2013-05-02T00:51:54+00:00

Pull VFS updates from Al Viro,

Misc cleanups all over the place, mainly wrt /proc interfaces (switch
create_proc_entry to proc_create(), get rid of the deprecated
create_proc_read_entry() in favor of using proc_create_data() and
seq_file etc).

7kloc removed.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (204 commits)
  don't bother with deferred freeing of fdtables
  proc: Move non-public stuff from linux/proc_fs.h to fs/proc/internal.h
  proc: Make the PROC_I() and PDE() macros internal to procfs
  proc: Supply a function to remove a proc entry by PDE
  take cgroup_open() and cpuset_open() to fs/proc/base.c
  ppc: Clean up scanlog
  ppc: Clean up rtas_flash driver somewhat
  hostap: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  drm: proc: Use minor->index to label things, not PDE->name
  drm: Constify drm_proc_list[]
  zoran: Don't print proc_dir_entry data in debug
  reiserfs: Don't access the proc_dir_entry in r_open(), r_start() r_show()
  proc: Supply an accessor for getting the data from a PDE's parent
  airo: Use remove_proc_subtree()
  rtl8192u: Don't need to save device proc dir PDE
  rtl8187se: Use a dir under /proc/net/r8180/
  proc: Add proc_mkdir_data()
  proc: Move some bits from linux/proc_fs.h to linux/{of.h,signal.h,tty.h}
  proc: Move PDE_NET() to fs/proc/proc_net.c
  ...

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

2013-05-01T14:21:43+00:00

Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
 "Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
  with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
  rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
  syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
  get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
  make do_mremap() static
  sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
  ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
  x86: trim sys_ia32.h
  x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
  get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
  merge compat sys_ipc instances
  consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
  convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
  make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
  make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
  consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
  teach SYSCALL_DEFINE how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
  get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions