linux-toradex.git/fs/notify, branch v3.12.25

compat: fix sys_fanotify_mark

2014-02-13T21:50:13+00:00

commit 592f6b842f64e416c7598a1b97c649b34241e22d upstream.

Commit 91c2e0bcae72 ("unify compat fanotify_mark(2), switch to
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE") added a new unified compat fanotify_mark syscall
to be used by all architectures.

Unfortunately the unified version merges the split mask parameter in a
wrong way: the lower and higher word got swapped.

This was discovered with glibc's tst-fanotify test case.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Reported-by: Andreas Krebbel 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" 
Acked-by: Al Viro 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

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
  ...