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authorVladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>2015-04-14 15:46:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-14 16:49:03 -0700
commit53d85c98566535d7bc69470f008d7dcb09a0fec9 (patch)
tree2689f2205c941c8078a6b1be85389fe1f5b059e6
parent9de1626290eaa7d921413ddc83544bc3bae27283 (diff)
cleancache: forbid overriding cleancache_ops
Currently, cleancache_register_ops returns the previous value of cleancache_ops to allow chaining. However, chaining, as it is implemented now, is extremely dangerous due to possible pool id collisions. Suppose, a new cleancache driver is registered after the previous one assigned an id to a super block. If the new driver assigns the same id to another super block, which is perfectly possible, we will have two different filesystems using the same id. No matter if the new driver implements chaining or not, we are likely to get data corruption with such a configuration eventually. This patch therefore disables the ability to override cleancache_ops altogether as potentially dangerous. If there is already cleancache driver registered, all further calls to cleancache_register_ops will return EBUSY. Since no user of cleancache implements chaining, we only need to make minor changes to the code outside the cleancache core. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Cc: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Cc: Stefan Hengelein <ilendir@googlemail.com> Cc: Florian Schmaus <fschmaus@gmail.com> Cc: Andor Daam <andor.daam@googlemail.com> Cc: Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@oracle.com> Cc: Bob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt4
-rw-r--r--drivers/xen/tmem.c16
-rw-r--r--include/linux/cleancache.h3
-rw-r--r--mm/cleancache.c12
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
index 01d76282444e..e4b49df7a048 100644
--- a/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/vm/cleancache.txt
@@ -28,9 +28,7 @@ IMPLEMENTATION OVERVIEW
A cleancache "backend" that provides transcendent memory registers itself
to the kernel's cleancache "frontend" by calling cleancache_register_ops,
passing a pointer to a cleancache_ops structure with funcs set appropriately.
-Note that cleancache_register_ops returns the previous settings so that
-chaining can be performed if desired. The functions provided must conform to
-certain semantics as follows:
+The functions provided must conform to certain semantics as follows:
Most important, cleancache is "ephemeral". Pages which are copied into
cleancache have an indefinite lifetime which is completely unknowable
diff --git a/drivers/xen/tmem.c b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
index 8a65423bc696..c4211a31612d 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/tmem.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/tmem.c
@@ -397,13 +397,15 @@ static int __init xen_tmem_init(void)
#ifdef CONFIG_CLEANCACHE
BUG_ON(sizeof(struct cleancache_filekey) != sizeof(struct tmem_oid));
if (tmem_enabled && cleancache) {
- char *s = "";
- struct cleancache_ops *old_ops =
- cleancache_register_ops(&tmem_cleancache_ops);
- if (old_ops)
- s = " (WARNING: cleancache_ops overridden)";
- pr_info("cleancache enabled, RAM provided by Xen Transcendent Memory%s\n",
- s);
+ int err;
+
+ err = cleancache_register_ops(&tmem_cleancache_ops);
+ if (err)
+ pr_warn("xen-tmem: failed to enable cleancache: %d\n",
+ err);
+ else
+ pr_info("cleancache enabled, RAM provided by "
+ "Xen Transcendent Memory\n");
}
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_XEN_SELFBALLOONING
diff --git a/include/linux/cleancache.h b/include/linux/cleancache.h
index 29657d1c83fb..b23611f43cfb 100644
--- a/include/linux/cleancache.h
+++ b/include/linux/cleancache.h
@@ -33,8 +33,7 @@ struct cleancache_ops {
void (*invalidate_fs)(int);
};
-extern struct cleancache_ops *
- cleancache_register_ops(struct cleancache_ops *ops);
+extern int cleancache_register_ops(struct cleancache_ops *ops);
extern void __cleancache_init_fs(struct super_block *);
extern void __cleancache_init_shared_fs(struct super_block *);
extern int __cleancache_get_page(struct page *);
diff --git a/mm/cleancache.c b/mm/cleancache.c
index 532495f2e4f4..aa10f9a3bc88 100644
--- a/mm/cleancache.c
+++ b/mm/cleancache.c
@@ -106,15 +106,17 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(poolid_mutex);
*/
/*
- * Register operations for cleancache, returning previous thus allowing
- * detection of multiple backends and possible nesting.
+ * Register operations for cleancache. Returns 0 on success.
*/
-struct cleancache_ops *cleancache_register_ops(struct cleancache_ops *ops)
+int cleancache_register_ops(struct cleancache_ops *ops)
{
- struct cleancache_ops *old = cleancache_ops;
int i;
mutex_lock(&poolid_mutex);
+ if (cleancache_ops) {
+ mutex_unlock(&poolid_mutex);
+ return -EBUSY;
+ }
for (i = 0; i < MAX_INITIALIZABLE_FS; i++) {
if (fs_poolid_map[i] == FS_NO_BACKEND)
fs_poolid_map[i] = ops->init_fs(PAGE_SIZE);
@@ -130,7 +132,7 @@ struct cleancache_ops *cleancache_register_ops(struct cleancache_ops *ops)
barrier();
cleancache_ops = ops;
mutex_unlock(&poolid_mutex);
- return old;
+ return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(cleancache_register_ops);