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2022-05-23NFSD: Instantiate a struct file when creating a regular NFSv4 fileChuck Lever
There have been reports of races that cause NFSv4 OPEN(CREATE) to return an error even though the requested file was created. NFSv4 does not provide a status code for this case. To mitigate some of these problems, reorganize the NFSv4 OPEN(CREATE) logic to allocate resources before the file is actually created, and open the new file while the parent directory is still locked. Two new APIs are added: + Add an API that works like nfsd_file_acquire() but does not open the underlying file. The OPEN(CREATE) path can use this API when it already has an open file. + Add an API that is kin to dentry_open(). NFSD needs to create a file and grab an open "struct file *" atomically. The alloc_empty_file() has to be done before the inode create. If it fails (for example, because the NFS server has exceeded its max_files limit), we avoid creating the file and can still return an error to the NFS client. BugLink: https://bugzilla.linux-nfs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382 Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Tested-by: JianHong Yin <jiyin@redhat.com>
2022-05-09VFS: add FMODE_CAN_ODIRECT file flagNeilBrown
Currently various places test if direct IO is possible on a file by checking for the existence of the direct_IO address space operation. This is a poor choice, as the direct_IO operation may not be used - it is only used if the generic_file_*_iter functions are called for direct IO and some filesystems - particularly NFS - don't do this. Instead, introduce a new f_mode flag: FMODE_CAN_ODIRECT and change the various places to check this (avoiding pointer dereferences). do_dentry_open() will set this flag if ->direct_IO is present, so filesystems do not need to be changed. NFS *is* changed, to set the flag explicitly and discard the direct_IO entry in the address_space_operations for files. Other filesystems which currently use noop_direct_IO could usefully be changed to set this flag instead. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/164859778128.29473.15189737957277399416.stgit@noble.brown Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Tested-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com> Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2022-04-26riscv: compat: syscall: Add compat_sys_call_table implementationGuo Ren
Implement compat sys_call_table and some system call functions: truncate64, ftruncate64, fallocate, pread64, pwrite64, sync_file_range, readahead, fadvise64_64 which need argument translation. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Tested-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220405071314.3225832-12-guoren@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-03-08fs: remove fs.f_write_hintChristoph Hellwig
The value is now completely unused except for reporting it back through the F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT ioctl, so remove the value and the two ioctls for it. Trying to use the F_SET_FILE_RW_HINT and F_GET_FILE_RW_HINT fcntls will now return EINVAL, just like it would on a kernel that never supported this functionality in the first place. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220308060529.736277-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2021-12-05fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystemsChristian Brauner
In previous patches we added new and modified existing helpers to handle idmapped mounts of filesystems mounted with an idmapping. In this final patch we convert all relevant places in the vfs to actually pass the filesystem's idmapping into these helpers. With this the vfs is in shape to handle idmapped mounts of filesystems mounted with an idmapping. Note that this is just the generic infrastructure. Actually adding support for idmapped mounts to a filesystem mountable with an idmapping is follow-up work. In this patch we extend the definition of an idmapped mount from a mount that that has the initial idmapping attached to it to a mount that has an idmapping attached to it which is not the same as the idmapping the filesystem was mounted with. As before we do not allow the initial idmapping to be attached to a mount. In addition this patch prevents that the idmapping the filesystem was mounted with can be attached to a mount created based on this filesystem. This has multiple reasons and advantages. First, attaching the initial idmapping or the filesystem's idmapping doesn't make much sense as in both cases the values of the i_{g,u}id and other places where k{g,u}ids are used do not change. Second, a user that really wants to do this for whatever reason can just create a separate dedicated identical idmapping to attach to the mount. Third, we can continue to use the initial idmapping as an indicator that a mount is not idmapped allowing us to continue to keep passing the initial idmapping into the mapping helpers to tell them that something isn't an idmapped mount even if the filesystem is mounted with an idmapping. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123114227.3124056-11-brauner@kernel.org (v1) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130121032.3753852-11-brauner@kernel.org (v2) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203111707.3901969-11-brauner@kernel.org Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-12-03fs: use low-level mapping helpersChristian Brauner
In a few places the vfs needs to interact with bare k{g,u}ids directly instead of struct inode. These are just a few. In previous patches we introduced low-level mapping helpers that are able to support filesystems mounted an idmapping. This patch simply converts the places to use these new helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123114227.3124056-7-brauner@kernel.org (v1) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130121032.3753852-7-brauner@kernel.org (v2) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203111707.3901969-7-brauner@kernel.org Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-12-03fs: move mapping helpersChristian Brauner
The low-level mapping helpers were so far crammed into fs.h. They are out of place there. The fs.h header should just contain the higher-level mapping helpers that interact directly with vfs objects such as struct super_block or struct inode and not the bare mapping helpers. Similarly, only vfs and specific fs code shall interact with low-level mapping helpers. And so they won't be made accessible automatically through regular {g,u}id helpers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211123114227.3124056-3-brauner@kernel.org (v1) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211130121032.3753852-3-brauner@kernel.org (v2) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203111707.3901969-3-brauner@kernel.org Cc: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee <sforshee@digitalocean.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-11-06Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "257 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools, memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm, vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram, cleanups, kfence, and damon)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (257 commits) mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM) selftests/damon: support watermarks mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes ...
2021-11-06mm, thp: fix incorrect unmap behavior for private pagesRongwei Wang
When truncating pagecache on file THP, the private pages of a process should not be unmapped mapping. This incorrect behavior on a dynamic shared libraries which will cause related processes to happen core dump. A simple test for a DSO (Prerequisite is the DSO mapped in file THP): int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { int fd; fd = open(argv[1], O_WRONLY); if (fd < 0) { perror("open"); } close(fd); return 0; } The test only to open a target DSO, and do nothing. But this operation will lead one or more process to happen core dump. This patch mainly to fix this bug. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025092134.18562-3-rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: eb6ecbed0aa2 ("mm, thp: relax the VM_DENYWRITE constraint on file-backed THPs") Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Tested-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: Collin Fijalkovich <cfijalkovich@google.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-11-06mm, thp: lock filemap when truncating page cacheRongwei Wang
Patch series "fix two bugs for file THP". This patch (of 2): Transparent huge page has supported read-only non-shmem files. The file- backed THP is collapsed by khugepaged and truncated when written (for shared libraries). However, there is a race when multiple writers truncate the same page cache concurrently. In that case, subpage(s) of file THP can be revealed by find_get_entry in truncate_inode_pages_range, which will trigger PageTail BUG_ON in truncate_inode_page, as follows: page:000000009e420ff2 refcount:1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x7ff pfn:0x50c3ff head:0000000075ff816d order:9 compound_mapcount:0 compound_pincount:0 flags: 0x37fffe0000010815(locked|uptodate|lru|arch_1|head) raw: 37fffe0000000000 fffffe0013108001 dead000000000122 dead000000000400 raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000 head: 37fffe0000010815 fffffe001066bd48 ffff000404183c20 0000000000000000 head: 0000000000000600 0000000000000000 00000001ffffffff ffff000c0345a000 page dumped because: VM_BUG_ON_PAGE(PageTail(page)) ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/truncate.c:213! Internal error: Oops - BUG: 0 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: xfs(E) libcrc32c(E) rfkill(E) ... CPU: 14 PID: 11394 Comm: check_madvise_d Kdump: ... Hardware name: ECS, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 pstate: 60400005 (nZCv daif +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) Call trace: truncate_inode_page+0x64/0x70 truncate_inode_pages_range+0x550/0x7e4 truncate_pagecache+0x58/0x80 do_dentry_open+0x1e4/0x3c0 vfs_open+0x38/0x44 do_open+0x1f0/0x310 path_openat+0x114/0x1dc do_filp_open+0x84/0x134 do_sys_openat2+0xbc/0x164 __arm64_sys_openat+0x74/0xc0 el0_svc_common.constprop.0+0x88/0x220 do_el0_svc+0x30/0xa0 el0_svc+0x20/0x30 el0_sync_handler+0x1a4/0x1b0 el0_sync+0x180/0x1c0 Code: aa0103e0 900061e1 910ec021 9400d300 (d4210000) This patch mainly to lock filemap when one enter truncate_pagecache(), avoiding truncating the same page cache concurrently. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025092134.18562-1-rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211025092134.18562-2-rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com Fixes: eb6ecbed0aa2 ("mm, thp: relax the VM_DENYWRITE constraint on file-backed THPs") Signed-off-by: Xu Yu <xuyu@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Rongwei Wang <rongwei.wang@linux.alibaba.com> Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Tested-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Collin Fijalkovich <cfijalkovich@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com> Cc: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-10-04audit: add OPENAT2 record to list "how" infoRichard Guy Briggs
Since the openat2(2) syscall uses a struct open_how pointer to communicate its parameters they are not usefully recorded by the audit SYSCALL record's four existing arguments. Add a new audit record type OPENAT2 that reports the parameters in its third argument, struct open_how with fields oflag, mode and resolve. The new record in the context of an event would look like: time->Wed Mar 17 16:28:53 2021 type=PROCTITLE msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): proctitle= 73797363616C6C735F66696C652F6F70656E617432002F746D702F61756469742D 7465737473756974652D737641440066696C652D6F70656E617432 type=PATH msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): item=1 name="file-openat2" inode=29 dev=00:1f mode=0100600 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 nametype=CREATE cap_fp=0 cap_fi=0 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0 cap_frootid=0 type=PATH msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): item=0 name="/root/rgb/git/audit-testsuite/tests" inode=25 dev=00:1f mode=040700 ouid=0 ogid=0 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_tmp_t:s0 nametype=PARENT cap_fp=0 cap_fi=0 cap_fe=0 cap_fver=0 cap_frootid=0 type=CWD msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): cwd="/root/rgb/git/audit-testsuite/tests" type=OPENAT2 msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): oflag=0100302 mode=0600 resolve=0xa type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1616012933.531:184): arch=c000003e syscall=437 success=yes exit=4 a0=3 a1=7ffe315f1c53 a2=7ffe315f1550 a3=18 items=2 ppid=528 pid=540 auid=0 uid=0 gid=0 euid=0 suid=0 fsuid=0 egid=0 sgid=0 fsgid=0 tty=ttyS0 ses=1 comm="openat2" exe="/root/rgb/git/audit-testsuite/tests/syscalls_file/openat2" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 key="testsuite-1616012933-bjAUcEPO" Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d23fbb89186754487850367224b060e26f9b7181.1621363275.git.rgb@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> [PM: tweak subject, wrap example, move AUDIT_OPENAT2 to 1337] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2021-08-23fs: remove mandatory file locking supportJeff Layton
We added CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING in 2015, and soon after turned it off in Fedora and RHEL8. Several other distros have followed suit. I've heard of one problem in all that time: Someone migrated from an older distro that supported "-o mand" to one that didn't, and the host had a fstab entry with "mand" in it which broke on reboot. They didn't actually _use_ mandatory locking so they just removed the mount option and moved on. This patch rips out mandatory locking support wholesale from the kernel, along with the Kconfig option and the Documentation file. It also changes the mount code to ignore the "mand" mount option instead of erroring out, and to throw a big, ugly warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
2021-07-03Merge branch 'work.namei' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs name lookup updates from Al Viro: "Small namei.c patch series, mostly to simplify the rules for nameidata state. It's actually from the previous cycle - but I didn't post it for review in time... Changes visible outside of fs/namei.c: file_open_root() calling conventions change, some freed bits in LOOKUP_... space" * 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: namei: make sure nd->depth is always valid teach set_nameidata() to handle setting the root as well take LOOKUP_{ROOT,ROOT_GRABBED,JUMPED} out of LOOKUP_... space switch file_open_root() to struct path
2021-07-02Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "190 patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, kconfig, proc, z3fold, zbud, ras, mempolicy, memblock, migration, thp, nommu, kconfig, madvise, memory-hotplug, zswap, zsmalloc, zram, cleanups, kfence, and hmm), procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, lib, lz4, checkpatch, init, kprobes, nilfs2, hfs, signals, exec, kcov, selftests, compress/decompress, and ipc" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (190 commits) ipc/util.c: use binary search for max_idx ipc/sem.c: use READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() for use_global_lock ipc: use kmalloc for msg_queue and shmid_kernel ipc sem: use kvmalloc for sem_undo allocation lib/decompressors: remove set but not used variabled 'level' selftests/vm/pkeys: exercise x86 XSAVE init state selftests/vm/pkeys: refill shadow register after implicit kernel write selftests/vm/pkeys: handle negative sys_pkey_alloc() return code selftests/vm/pkeys: fix alloc_random_pkey() to make it really, really random kcov: add __no_sanitize_coverage to fix noinstr for all architectures exec: remove checks in __register_bimfmt() x86: signal: don't do sas_ss_reset() until we are certain that sigframe won't be abandoned hfsplus: report create_date to kstat.btime hfsplus: remove unnecessary oom message nilfs2: remove redundant continue statement in a while-loop kprobes: remove duplicated strong free_insn_page in x86 and s390 init: print out unknown kernel parameters checkpatch: do not complain about positive return values starting with EPOLL checkpatch: improve the indented label test checkpatch: scripts/spdxcheck.py now requires python3 ...
2021-06-30mm, thp: relax the VM_DENYWRITE constraint on file-backed THPsCollin Fijalkovich
Transparent huge pages are supported for read-only non-shmem files, but are only used for vmas with VM_DENYWRITE. This condition ensures that file THPs are protected from writes while an application is running (ETXTBSY). Any existing file THPs are then dropped from the page cache when a file is opened for write in do_dentry_open(). Since sys_mmap ignores MAP_DENYWRITE, this constrains the use of file THPs to vmas produced by execve(). Systems that make heavy use of shared libraries (e.g. Android) are unable to apply VM_DENYWRITE through the dynamic linker, preventing them from benefiting from the resultant reduced contention on the TLB. This patch reduces the constraint on file THPs allowing use with any executable mapping from a file not opened for write (see inode_is_open_for_write()). It also introduces additional conditions to ensure that files opened for write will never be backed by file THPs. Restricting the use of THPs to executable mappings eliminates the risk that a read-only file later opened for write would encounter significant latencies due to page cache truncation. The ld linker flag '-z max-page-size=(hugepage size)' can be used to produce executables with the necessary layout. The dynamic linker must map these file's segments at a hugepage size aligned vma for the mapping to be backed with THPs. Comparison of the performance characteristics of 4KB and 2MB-backed libraries follows; the Android dex2oat tool was used to AOT compile an example application on a single ARM core. 4KB Pages: ========== count event_name # count / runtime 598,995,035,942 cpu-cycles # 1.800861 GHz 81,195,620,851 raw-stall-frontend # 244.112 M/sec 347,754,466,597 iTLB-loads # 1.046 G/sec 2,970,248,900 iTLB-load-misses # 0.854122% miss rate Total test time: 332.854998 seconds. 2MB Pages: ========== count event_name # count / runtime 592,872,663,047 cpu-cycles # 1.800358 GHz 76,485,624,143 raw-stall-frontend # 232.261 M/sec 350,478,413,710 iTLB-loads # 1.064 G/sec 803,233,322 iTLB-load-misses # 0.229182% miss rate Total test time: 329.826087 seconds A check of /proc/$(pidof dex2oat64)/smaps shows THPs in use: /apex/com.android.art/lib64/libart.so FilePmdMapped: 4096 kB /apex/com.android.art/lib64/libart-compiler.so FilePmdMapped: 2048 kB Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210406000930.3455850-1-cfijalkovich@google.com Signed-off-by: Collin Fijalkovich <cfijalkovich@google.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Reviewed-by: William Kucharski <william.kucharski@oracle.com> Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com> Cc: Hridya Valsaraju <hridya@google.com> Cc: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com> Cc: Tim Murray <timmurray@google.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-05-28open: don't silently ignore unknown O-flags in openat2()Christian Brauner
The new openat2() syscall verifies that no unknown O-flag values are set and returns an error to userspace if they are while the older open syscalls like open() and openat() simply ignore unknown flag values: #define O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID (1 << 31) struct open_how how = { .flags = O_RDONLY | O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID, .resolve = 0, }; /* fails */ fd = openat2(-EBADF, "/dev/null", &how, sizeof(how)); /* succeeds */ fd = openat(-EBADF, "/dev/null", O_RDONLY | O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID); However, openat2() silently truncates the upper 32 bits meaning: #define O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID_LOWER32 (1 << 31) #define O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID_UPPER32 (1 << 40) struct open_how how_lowe32 = { .flags = O_RDONLY | O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID_LOWER32, }; struct open_how how_upper32 = { .flags = O_RDONLY | O_FLAG_CURRENTLY_INVALID_UPPER32, }; /* fails */ fd = openat2(-EBADF, "/dev/null", &how_lower32, sizeof(how_lower32)); /* succeeds */ fd = openat2(-EBADF, "/dev/null", &how_upper32, sizeof(how_upper32)); Fix this by preventing the immediate truncation in build_open_flags(). There's a snafu here though stripping FMODE_* directly from flags would cause the upper 32 bits to be truncated as well due to integer promotion rules since FMODE_* is unsigned int, O_* are signed ints (yuck). In addition, struct open_flags currently defines flags to be 32 bit which is reasonable. If we simply were to bump it to 64 bit we would need to change a lot of code preemptively which doesn't seem worth it. So simply add a compile-time check verifying that all currently known O_* flags are within the 32 bit range and fail to build if they aren't anymore. This change shouldn't regress old open syscalls since they silently truncate any unknown values anyway. It is a tiny semantic change for openat2() but it is very unlikely people pass ing > 32 bit unknown flags and the syscall is relatively new too. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210528092417.3942079-3-brauner@kernel.org Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Reviewed-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-04-07switch file_open_root() to struct pathAl Viro
... and provide file_open_root_mnt(), using the root of given mount. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2021-02-23Merge tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux Pull idmapped mounts from Christian Brauner: "This introduces idmapped mounts which has been in the making for some time. Simply put, different mounts can expose the same file or directory with different ownership. This initial implementation comes with ports for fat, ext4 and with Christoph's port for xfs with more filesystems being actively worked on by independent people and maintainers. Idmapping mounts handle a wide range of long standing use-cases. Here are just a few: - Idmapped mounts make it possible to easily share files between multiple users or multiple machines especially in complex scenarios. For example, idmapped mounts will be used in the implementation of portable home directories in systemd-homed.service(8) where they allow users to move their home directory to an external storage device and use it on multiple computers where they are assigned different uids and gids. This effectively makes it possible to assign random uids and gids at login time. - It is possible to share files from the host with unprivileged containers without having to change ownership permanently through chown(2). - It is possible to idmap a container's rootfs and without having to mangle every file. For example, Chromebooks use it to share the user's Download folder with their unprivileged containers in their Linux subsystem. - It is possible to share files between containers with non-overlapping idmappings. - Filesystem that lack a proper concept of ownership such as fat can use idmapped mounts to implement discretionary access (DAC) permission checking. - They allow users to efficiently changing ownership on a per-mount basis without having to (recursively) chown(2) all files. In contrast to chown (2) changing ownership of large sets of files is instantenous with idmapped mounts. This is especially useful when ownership of a whole root filesystem of a virtual machine or container is changed. With idmapped mounts a single syscall mount_setattr syscall will be sufficient to change the ownership of all files. - Idmapped mounts always take the current ownership into account as idmappings specify what a given uid or gid is supposed to be mapped to. This contrasts with the chown(2) syscall which cannot by itself take the current ownership of the files it changes into account. It simply changes the ownership to the specified uid and gid. This is especially problematic when recursively chown(2)ing a large set of files which is commong with the aforementioned portable home directory and container and vm scenario. - Idmapped mounts allow to change ownership locally, restricting it to specific mounts, and temporarily as the ownership changes only apply as long as the mount exists. Several userspace projects have either already put up patches and pull-requests for this feature or will do so should you decide to pull this: - systemd: In a wide variety of scenarios but especially right away in their implementation of portable home directories. https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/ - container runtimes: containerd, runC, LXD:To share data between host and unprivileged containers, unprivileged and privileged containers, etc. The pull request for idmapped mounts support in containerd, the default Kubernetes runtime is already up for quite a while now: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/4734 - The virtio-fs developers and several users have expressed interest in using this feature with virtual machines once virtio-fs is ported. - ChromeOS: Sharing host-directories with unprivileged containers. I've tightly synced with all those projects and all of those listed here have also expressed their need/desire for this feature on the mailing list. For more info on how people use this there's a bunch of talks about this too. Here's just two recent ones: https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rootless-Containers-in-Gitpod.pdf https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/containers_idmap/ This comes with an extensive xfstests suite covering both ext4 and xfs: https://git.kernel.org/brauner/xfstests-dev/h/idmapped_mounts It covers truncation, creation, opening, xattrs, vfscaps, setid execution, setgid inheritance and more both with idmapped and non-idmapped mounts. It already helped to discover an unrelated xfs setgid inheritance bug which has since been fixed in mainline. It will be sent for inclusion with the xfstests project should you decide to merge this. In order to support per-mount idmappings vfsmounts are marked with user namespaces. The idmapping of the user namespace will be used to map the ids of vfs objects when they are accessed through that mount. By default all vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace. The initial user namespace is used to indicate that a mount is not idmapped. All operations behave as before and this is verified in the testsuite. Based on prior discussions we want to attach the whole user namespace and not just a dedicated idmapping struct. This allows us to reuse all the helpers that already exist for dealing with idmappings instead of introducing a whole new range of helpers. In addition, if we decide in the future that we are confident enough to enable unprivileged users to setup idmapped mounts the permission checking can take into account whether the caller is privileged in the user namespace the mount is currently marked with. The user namespace the mount will be marked with can be specified by passing a file descriptor refering to the user namespace as an argument to the new mount_setattr() syscall together with the new MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP flag. The system call follows the openat2() pattern of extensibility. The following conditions must be met in order to create an idmapped mount: - The caller must currently have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the user namespace the underlying filesystem has been mounted in. - The underlying filesystem must support idmapped mounts. - The mount must not already be idmapped. This also implies that the idmapping of a mount cannot be altered once it has been idmapped. - The mount must be a detached/anonymous mount, i.e. it must have been created by calling open_tree() with the OPEN_TREE_CLONE flag and it must not already have been visible in the filesystem. The last two points guarantee easier semantics for userspace and the kernel and make the implementation significantly simpler. By default vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace and no behavioral or performance changes are observed. The manpage with a detailed description can be found here: https://git.kernel.org/brauner/man-pages/c/1d7b902e2875a1ff342e036a9f866a995640aea8 In order to support idmapped mounts, filesystems need to be changed and mark themselves with the FS_ALLOW_IDMAP flag in fs_flags. The patches to convert individual filesystem are not very large or complicated overall as can be seen from the included fat, ext4, and xfs ports. Patches for other filesystems are actively worked on and will be sent out separately. The xfstestsuite can be used to verify that port has been done correctly. The mount_setattr() syscall is motivated independent of the idmapped mounts patches and it's been around since July 2019. One of the most valuable features of the new mount api is the ability to perform mounts based on file descriptors only. Together with the lookup restrictions available in the openat2() RESOLVE_* flag namespace which we added in v5.6 this is the first time we are close to hardened and race-free (e.g. symlinks) mounting and path resolution. While userspace has started porting to the new mount api to mount proper filesystems and create new bind-mounts it is currently not possible to change mount options of an already existing bind mount in the new mount api since the mount_setattr() syscall is missing. With the addition of the mount_setattr() syscall we remove this last restriction and userspace can now fully port to the new mount api, covering every use-case the old mount api could. We also add the crucial ability to recursively change mount options for a whole mount tree, both removing and adding mount options at the same time. This syscall has been requested multiple times by various people and projects. There is a simple tool available at https://github.com/brauner/mount-idmapped that allows to create idmapped mounts so people can play with this patch series. I'll add support for the regular mount binary should you decide to pull this in the following weeks: Here's an example to a simple idmapped mount of another user's home directory: u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo ./mount --idmap both:1000:1001:1 /home/ubuntu/ /mnt u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 28 22:07 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 28 04:00 .. -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful -rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/ total 28 drwxr-xr-x 2 u1001 u1001 4096 Oct 28 22:07 . drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Oct 28 22:01 .. -rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile -rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful -rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo u1001@f2-vm:/$ touch /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ setfacl -m u:1001:rwx /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo setcap -n 1001 cap_net_raw+ep /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/my-file -rw-rwxr--+ 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 28 22:14 /mnt/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/my-file -rw-rwxr--+ 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 22:14 /home/ubuntu/my-file u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /mnt/my-file getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: mnt/my-file # owner: u1001 # group: u1001 user::rw- user:u1001:rwx group::rw- mask::rwx other::r-- u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /home/ubuntu/my-file getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names # file: home/ubuntu/my-file # owner: ubuntu # group: ubuntu user::rw- user:ubuntu:rwx group::rw- mask::rwx other::r--" * tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: (41 commits) xfs: remove the possibly unused mp variable in xfs_file_compat_ioctl xfs: support idmapped mounts ext4: support idmapped mounts fat: handle idmapped mounts tests: add mount_setattr() selftests fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP fs: add mount_setattr() fs: add attr_flags_to_mnt_flags helper fs: split out functions to hold writers namespace: only take read lock in do_reconfigure_mnt() mount: make {lock,unlock}_mount_hash() static namespace: take lock_mount_hash() directly when changing flags nfs: do not export idmapped mounts overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts ecryptfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts ima: handle idmapped mounts apparmor: handle idmapped mounts fs: make helpers idmap mount aware exec: handle idmapped mounts would_dump: handle idmapped mounts ...
2021-01-24open: handle idmapped mountsChristian Brauner
For core file operations such as changing directories or chrooting, determining file access, changing mode or ownership the vfs will verify that the caller is privileged over the inode. Extend the various helpers to handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the permissions checks are identical to non-idmapped mounts. When changing file ownership we need to map the uid and gid from the mount's user namespace. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-17-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-24open: handle idmapped mounts in do_truncate()Christian Brauner
When truncating files the vfs will verify that the caller is privileged over the inode. Extend it to handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount it is mapped according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the permissions checks are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-16-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-24attr: handle idmapped mountsChristian Brauner
When file attributes are changed most filesystems rely on the setattr_prepare(), setattr_copy(), and notify_change() helpers for initialization and permission checking. Let them handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Helpers that perform checks on the ia_uid and ia_gid fields in struct iattr assume that ia_uid and ia_gid are intended values and have already been mapped correctly at the userspace-kernelspace boundary as we already do today. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-8-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-24namei: make permission helpers idmapped mount awareChristian Brauner
The two helpers inode_permission() and generic_permission() are used by the vfs to perform basic permission checking by verifying that the caller is privileged over an inode. In order to handle idmapped mounts we extend the two helpers with an additional user namespace argument. On idmapped mounts the two helpers will make sure to map the inode according to the mount's user namespace and then peform identical permission checks to inode_permission() and generic_permission(). If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-6-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-24fs: add file and path permissions helpersChristian Brauner
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit. Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g. ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more complex argument passing than necessary. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2021-01-04fs: expose LOOKUP_CACHED through openat2() RESOLVE_CACHEDJens Axboe
Now that we support non-blocking path resolution internally, expose it via openat2() in the struct open_how ->resolve flags. This allows applications using openat2() to limit path resolution to the extent that it is already cached. If the lookup cannot be satisfied in a non-blocking manner, openat2(2) will return -1/-EAGAIN. Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-12-15Merge branch 'exec-for-v5.11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull execve updates from Eric Biederman: "This set of changes ultimately fixes the interaction of posix file lock and exec. Fundamentally most of the change is just moving where unshare_files is called during exec, and tweaking the users of files_struct so that the count of files_struct is not unnecessarily played with. Along the way fcheck and related helpers were renamed to more accurately reflect what they do. There were also many other small changes that fell out, as this is the first time in a long time much of this code has been touched. Benchmarks haven't turned up any practical issues but Al Viro has observed a possibility for a lot of pounding on task_lock. So I have some changes in progress to convert put_files_struct to always rcu free files_struct. That wasn't ready for the merge window so that will have to wait until next time" * 'exec-for-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (27 commits) exec: Move io_uring_task_cancel after the point of no return coredump: Document coredump code exclusively used by cell spufs file: Remove get_files_struct file: Rename __close_fd_get_file close_fd_get_file file: Replace ksys_close with close_fd file: Rename __close_fd to close_fd and remove the files parameter file: Merge __alloc_fd into alloc_fd file: In f_dupfd read RLIMIT_NOFILE once. file: Merge __fd_install into fd_install proc/fd: In fdinfo seq_show don't use get_files_struct bpf/task_iter: In task_file_seq_get_next use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu proc/fd: In proc_readfd_common use task_lookup_next_fd_rcu file: Implement task_lookup_next_fd_rcu kcmp: In get_file_raw_ptr use task_lookup_fd_rcu proc/fd: In tid_fd_mode use task_lookup_fd_rcu file: Implement task_lookup_fd_rcu file: Rename fcheck lookup_fd_rcu file: Replace fcheck_files with files_lookup_fd_rcu file: Factor files_lookup_fd_locked out of fcheck_files file: Rename __fcheck_files to files_lookup_fd_raw ...
2020-12-10file: Rename __close_fd to close_fd and remove the files parameterEric W. Biederman
The function __close_fd was added to support binder[1]. Now that binder has been fixed to no longer need __close_fd[2] all calls to __close_fd pass current->files. Therefore transform the files parameter into a local variable initialized to current->files, and rename __close_fd to close_fd to reflect this change, and keep it in sync with the similar changes to __alloc_fd, and __fd_install. This removes the need for callers to care about the extra care that needs to be take if anything except current->files is passed, by limiting the callers to only operation on current->files. [1] 483ce1d4b8c3 ("take descriptor-related part of close() to file.c") [2] 44d8047f1d87 ("binder: use standard functions to allocate fds") Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> v1: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200817220425.9389-17-ebiederm@xmission.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201120231441.29911-21-ebiederm@xmission.com Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2020-12-03openat2: reject RESOLVE_BENEATH|RESOLVE_IN_ROOTAleksa Sarai
This was an oversight in the original implementation, as it makes no sense to specify both scoping flags to the same openat2(2) invocation (before this patch, the result of such an invocation was equivalent to RESOLVE_IN_ROOT being ignored). This is a userspace-visible ABI change, but the only user of openat2(2) at the moment is LXC which doesn't specify both flags and so no userspace programs will break as a result. Fixes: fddb5d430ad9 ("open: introduce openat2(2) syscall") Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.6+ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201027235044.5240-2-cyphar@cyphar.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-08-12exec: move S_ISREG() check earlierKees Cook
The execve(2)/uselib(2) syscalls have always rejected non-regular files. Recently, it was noticed that a deadlock was introduced when trying to execute pipes, as the S_ISREG() test was happening too late. This was fixed in commit 73601ea5b7b1 ("fs/open.c: allow opening only regular files during execve()"), but it was added after inode_permission() had already run, which meant LSMs could see bogus attempts to execute non-regular files. Move the test into the other inode type checks (which already look for other pathological conditions[1]). Since there is no need to use FMODE_EXEC while we still have access to "acc_mode", also switch the test to MAY_EXEC. Also include a comment with the redundant S_ISREG() checks at the end of execve(2)/uselib(2) to note that they are present to avoid any mistakes. My notes on the call path, and related arguments, checks, etc: do_open_execat() struct open_flags open_exec_flags = { .open_flag = O_LARGEFILE | O_RDONLY | __FMODE_EXEC, .acc_mode = MAY_EXEC, ... do_filp_open(dfd, filename, open_flags) path_openat(nameidata, open_flags, flags) file = alloc_empty_file(open_flags, current_cred()); do_open(nameidata, file, open_flags) may_open(path, acc_mode, open_flag) /* new location of MAY_EXEC vs S_ISREG() test */ inode_permission(inode, MAY_OPEN | acc_mode) security_inode_permission(inode, acc_mode) vfs_open(path, file) do_dentry_open(file, path->dentry->d_inode, open) /* old location of FMODE_EXEC vs S_ISREG() test */ security_file_open(f) open() [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/202006041910.9EF0C602@keescook/ Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200605160013.3954297-3-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-07Merge branch 'hch.init_path' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull init and set_fs() cleanups from Al Viro: "Christoph's 'getting rid of ksys_...() uses under KERNEL_DS' series" * 'hch.init_path' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (50 commits) init: add an init_dup helper init: add an init_utimes helper init: add an init_stat helper init: add an init_mknod helper init: add an init_mkdir helper init: add an init_symlink helper init: add an init_link helper init: add an init_eaccess helper init: add an init_chmod helper init: add an init_chown helper init: add an init_chroot helper init: add an init_chdir helper init: add an init_rmdir helper init: add an init_unlink helper init: add an init_umount helper init: add an init_mount helper init: mark create_dev as __init init: mark console_on_rootfs as __init init: initialize ramdisk_execute_command at compile time devtmpfs: refactor devtmpfsd() ...
2020-07-31init: add an init_eaccess helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to check if a file exists based on kernel space file name and switch the early init code over to it. Note that this theoretically changes behavior as it always is based on the effective permissions. But during early init that doesn't make a difference. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-07-31init: add an init_chmod helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to chmod with a kernel space file name and switch the early init code over to it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-07-31init: add an init_chown helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to chown with a kernel space file name and switch the early init code over to it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-07-31init: add an init_chroot helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to chroot with a kernel space file name and switch the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_chroot. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-07-31init: add an init_chdir helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a simple helper to chdir with a kernel space file name and switch the early init code over to it. Remove the now unused ksys_chdir. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2020-07-31fs: remove ksys_fchmodChristoph Hellwig
Fold it into the only remaining caller. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-31fs: remove ksys_openChristoph Hellwig
Just open code it in the two callers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-16fs: add a vfs_fchmod helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a helper for struct file based chmode operations. To be used by the initramfs code soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-16fs: add a vfs_fchown helperChristoph Hellwig
Add a helper for struct file based chown operations. To be used by the initramfs code soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-17close_range: add CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHAREChristian Brauner
One of the use-cases of close_range() is to drop file descriptors just before execve(). This would usually be expressed in the sequence: unshare(CLONE_FILES); close_range(3, ~0U); as pointed out by Linus it might be desirable to have this be a part of close_range() itself under a new flag CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE. This expands {dup,unshare)_fd() to take a max_fds argument that indicates the maximum number of file descriptors to copy from the old struct files. When the user requests that all file descriptors are supposed to be closed via close_range(min, max) then we can cap via unshare_fd(min) and hence don't need to do any of the heavy fput() work for everything above min. The patch makes it so that if CLOSE_RANGE_UNSHARE is requested and we do in fact currently share our file descriptor table we create a new private copy. We then close all fds in the requested range and finally after we're done we install the new fd table. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
2020-06-17open: add close_range()Christian Brauner
This adds the close_range() syscall. It allows to efficiently close a range of file descriptors up to all file descriptors of a calling task. I was contacted by FreeBSD as they wanted to have the same close_range() syscall as we proposed here. We've coordinated this and in the meantime, Kyle was fast enough to merge close_range() into FreeBSD already in April: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D21627 https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=359836 and the current plan is to backport close_range() to FreeBSD 12.2 (cf. [2]) once its merged in Linux too. Python is in the process of switching to close_range() on FreeBSD and they are waiting on us to merge this to switch on Linux as well: https://bugs.python.org/issue38061 The syscall came up in a recent discussion around the new mount API and making new file descriptor types cloexec by default. During this discussion, Al suggested the close_range() syscall (cf. [1]). Note, a syscall in this manner has been requested by various people over time. First, it helps to close all file descriptors of an exec()ing task. This can be done safely via (quoting Al's example from [1] verbatim): /* that exec is sensitive */ unshare(CLONE_FILES); /* we don't want anything past stderr here */ close_range(3, ~0U); execve(....); The code snippet above is one way of working around the problem that file descriptors are not cloexec by default. This is aggravated by the fact that we can't just switch them over without massively regressing userspace. For a whole class of programs having an in-kernel method of closing all file descriptors is very helpful (e.g. demons, service managers, programming language standard libraries, container managers etc.). (Please note, unshare(CLONE_FILES) should only be needed if the calling task is multi-threaded and shares the file descriptor table with another thread in which case two threads could race with one thread allocating file descriptors and the other one closing them via close_range(). For the general case close_range() before the execve() is sufficient.) Second, it allows userspace to avoid implementing closing all file descriptors by parsing through /proc/<pid>/fd/* and calling close() on each file descriptor. From looking at various large(ish) userspace code bases this or similar patterns are very common in: - service managers (cf. [4]) - libcs (cf. [6]) - container runtimes (cf. [5]) - programming language runtimes/standard libraries - Python (cf. [2]) - Rust (cf. [7], [8]) As Dmitry pointed out there's even a long-standing glibc bug about missing kernel support for this task (cf. [3]). In addition, the syscall will also work for tasks that do not have procfs mounted and on kernels that do not have procfs support compiled in. In such situations the only way to make sure that all file descriptors are closed is to call close() on each file descriptor up to UINT_MAX or RLIMIT_NOFILE, OPEN_MAX trickery (cf. comment [8] on Rust). The performance is striking. For good measure, comparing the following simple close_all_fds() userspace implementation that is essentially just glibc's version in [6]: static int close_all_fds(void) { int dir_fd; DIR *dir; struct dirent *direntp; dir = opendir("/proc/self/fd"); if (!dir) return -1; dir_fd = dirfd(dir); while ((direntp = readdir(dir))) { int fd; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, ".") == 0) continue; if (strcmp(direntp->d_name, "..") == 0) continue; fd = atoi(direntp->d_name); if (fd == dir_fd || fd == 0 || fd == 1 || fd == 2) continue; close(fd); } closedir(dir); return 0; } to close_range() yields: 1. closing 4 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~280 us - close_range(): ~24 us 2. closing 1000 open files: - close_all_fds(): ~5000 us - close_range(): ~800 us close_range() is designed to allow for some flexibility. Specifically, it does not simply always close all open file descriptors of a task. Instead, callers can specify an upper bound. This is e.g. useful for scenarios where specific file descriptors are created with well-known numbers that are supposed to be excluded from getting closed. For extra paranoia close_range() comes with a flags argument. This can e.g. be used to implement extension. Once can imagine userspace wanting to stop at the first error instead of ignoring errors under certain circumstances. There might be other valid ideas in the future. In any case, a flag argument doesn't hurt and keeps us on the safe side. From an implementation side this is kept rather dumb. It saw some input from David and Jann but all nonsense is obviously my own! - Errors to close file descriptors are currently ignored. (Could be changed by setting a flag in the future if needed.) - __close_range() is a rather simplistic wrapper around __close_fd(). My reasoning behind this is based on the nature of how __close_fd() needs to release an fd. But maybe I misunderstood specifics: We take the files_lock and rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task, we find the entry in the fdtable, get the file and need to release files_lock before calling filp_close(). In the meantime the fdtable might have been altered so we can't just retake the spinlock and keep the old rcu-reference of the fdtable around. Instead we need to grab a fresh reference to the fdtable. If my reasoning is correct then there's really no point in fancyfying __close_range(): We just need to rcu-dereference the fdtable of the calling task once to cap the max_fd value correctly and then go on calling __close_fd() in a loop. /* References */ [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190516165021.GD17978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/9e4f2f3a6b8ee995c365e86d976937c141d867f8/Modules/_posixsubprocess.c#L220 [3]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10353#c7 [4]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/5238e9575906297608ff802a27e2ff9effa3b338/src/basic/fd-util.c#L217 [5]: https://github.com/lxc/lxc/blob/ddf4b77e11a4d08f09b7b9cd13e593f8c047edc5/src/lxc/start.c#L236 [6]: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/grantpt.c;h=2030e07fa6e652aac32c775b8c6e005844c3c4eb;hb=HEAD#l17 Note that this is an internal implementation that is not exported. Currently, libc seems to not provide an exported version of this because of missing kernel support to do this. Note, in a recent patch series Florian made grantpt() a nop thereby removing the code referenced here. [7]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12148 [8]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/5f47c0613ed4eb46fca3633c1297364c09e5e451/src/libstd/sys/unix/process2.rs#L303-L308 Rust's solution is slightly different but is equally unperformant. Rust calls getdtablesize() which is a glibc library function that simply returns the current RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX values. Rust then goes on to call close() on each fd. That's obviously overkill for most tasks. Rarely, tasks - especially non-demons - hit RLIMIT_NOFILE or OPEN_MAX. Let's be nice and assume an unprivileged user with RLIMIT_NOFILE set to 1024. Even in this case, there's a very high chance that in the common case Rust is calling the close() syscall 1021 times pointlessly if the task just has 0, 1, and 2 open. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Kyle Evans <self@kyle-evans.net> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Dmitry V. Levin <ldv@altlinux.org> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org
2020-06-02Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "A few little subsystems and a start of a lot of MM patches. Subsystems affected by this patch series: squashfs, ocfs2, parisc, vfs. With mm subsystems: slab-generic, slub, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, memory-failure, vmalloc, kasan" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (128 commits) kasan: move kasan_report() into report.c mm/mm_init.c: report kasan-tag information stored in page->flags ubsan: entirely disable alignment checks under UBSAN_TRAP kasan: fix clang compilation warning due to stack protector x86/mm: remove vmalloc faulting mm: remove vmalloc_sync_(un)mappings() x86/mm/32: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() x86/mm/64: implement arch_sync_kernel_mappings() mm/ioremap: track which page-table levels were modified mm/vmalloc: track which page-table levels were modified mm: add functions to track page directory modifications s390: use __vmalloc_node in stack_alloc powerpc: use __vmalloc_node in alloc_vm_stack arm64: use __vmalloc_node in arch_alloc_vmap_stack mm: remove vmalloc_user_node_flags mm: switch the test_vmalloc module to use __vmalloc_node mm: remove __vmalloc_node_flags_caller mm: remove both instances of __vmalloc_node_flags mm: remove the prot argument to __vmalloc_node mm: remove the pgprot argument to __vmalloc ...
2020-06-02vfs: track per-sb writeback errors and report them to syncfsJeff Layton
Patch series "vfs: have syncfs() return error when there are writeback errors", v6. Currently, syncfs does not return errors when one of the inodes fails to be written back. It will return errors based on the legacy AS_EIO and AS_ENOSPC flags when syncing out the block device fails, but that's not particularly helpful for filesystems that aren't backed by a blockdev. It's also possible for a stray sync to lose those errors. The basic idea in this set is to track writeback errors at the superblock level, so that we can quickly and easily check whether something bad happened without having to fsync each file individually. syncfs is then changed to reliably report writeback errors after they occur, much in the same fashion as fsync does now. This patch (of 2): Usually we suggest that applications call fsync when they want to ensure that all data written to the file has made it to the backing store, but that can be inefficient when there are a lot of open files. Calling syncfs on the filesystem can be more efficient in some situations, but the error reporting doesn't currently work the way most people expect. If a single inode on a filesystem reports a writeback error, syncfs won't necessarily return an error. syncfs only returns an error if __sync_blockdev fails, and on some filesystems that's a no-op. It would be better if syncfs reported an error if there were any writeback failures. Then applications could call syncfs to see if there are any errors on any open files, and could then call fsync on all of the other descriptors to figure out which one failed. This patch adds a new errseq_t to struct super_block, and has mapping_set_error also record writeback errors there. To report those errors, we also need to keep an errseq_t in struct file to act as a cursor. This patch adds a dedicated field for that purpose, which slots nicely into 4 bytes of padding at the end of struct file on x86_64. An earlier version of this patch used an O_PATH file descriptor to cue the kernel that the open file should track the superblock error and not the inode's writeback error. I think that API is just too weird though. This is simpler and should make syncfs error reporting "just work" even if someone is multiplexing fsync and syncfs on the same fds. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-1-jlayton@kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200428135155.19223-2-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-05-14vfs: add faccessat2 syscallMiklos Szeredi
POSIX defines faccessat() as having a fourth "flags" argument, while the linux syscall doesn't have it. Glibc tries to emulate AT_EACCESS and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW, but AT_EACCESS emulation is broken. Add a new faccessat(2) syscall with the added flags argument and implement both flags. The value of AT_EACCESS is defined in glibc headers to be the same as AT_REMOVEDIR. Use this value for the kernel interface as well, together with the explanatory comment. Also add AT_EMPTY_PATH support, which is not documented by POSIX, but can be useful and is trivial to implement. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2020-05-14vfs: split out access_override_creds()Miklos Szeredi
Split out a helper that overrides the credentials in preparation for actually doing the access check. This prepares for the next patch that optionally disables the creds override. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2020-04-02Merge branch 'work.dotdot1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs pathwalk sanitizing from Al Viro: "Massive pathwalk rewrite and cleanups. Several iterations have been posted; hopefully this thing is getting readable and understandable now. Pretty much all parts of pathname resolutions are affected... The branch is identical to what has sat in -next, except for commit message in "lift all calls of step_into() out of follow_dotdot/ follow_dotdot_rcu", crediting Qian Cai for reporting the bug; only commit message changed there." * 'work.dotdot1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (69 commits) lookup_open(): don't bother with fallbacks to lookup+create atomic_open(): no need to pass struct open_flags anymore open_last_lookups(): move complete_walk() into do_open() open_last_lookups(): lift O_EXCL|O_CREAT handling into do_open() open_last_lookups(): don't abuse complete_walk() when all we want is unlazy open_last_lookups(): consolidate fsnotify_create() calls take post-lookup part of do_last() out of loop link_path_walk(): sample parent's i_uid and i_mode for the last component __nd_alloc_stack(): make it return bool reserve_stack(): switch to __nd_alloc_stack() pick_link(): take reserving space on stack into a new helper pick_link(): more straightforward handling of allocation failures fold path_to_nameidata() into its only remaining caller pick_link(): pass it struct path already with normal refcounting rules fs/namei.c: kill follow_mount() non-RCU analogue of the previous commit helper for mount rootwards traversal follow_dotdot(): be lazy about changing nd->path follow_dotdot_rcu(): be lazy about changing nd->path follow_dotdot{,_rcu}(): massage loops ...
2020-03-12cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failureAl Viro
several iterations of ->atomic_open() calling conventions ago, we used to need fput() if ->atomic_open() failed at some point after successful finish_open(). Now (since 2016) it's not needed - struct file carries enough state to make fput() work regardless of the point in struct file lifecycle and discarding it on failure exits in open() got unified. Unfortunately, I'd missed the fact that we had an instance of ->atomic_open() (cifs one) that used to need that fput(), as well as the stale comment in finish_open() demanding such late failure handling. Trivially fixed... Fixes: fe9ec8291fca "do_last(): take fput() on error after opening to out:" Cc: stable@kernel.org # v4.7+ Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27make build_open_flags() treat O_CREAT | O_EXCL as implying O_NOFOLLOWAl Viro
O_CREAT | O_EXCL means "-EEXIST if we run into a trailing symlink". As it is, we might or might not have LOOKUP_FOLLOW in op->intent in that case - that depends upon having O_NOFOLLOW in open flags. It doesn't matter, since we won't be checking it in that case - do_last() bails out earlier. However, making sure it's not set (i.e. acting as if we had an explicit O_NOFOLLOW) makes the behaviour more explicit and allows to reorder the check for O_CREAT | O_EXCL in do_last() with the call of step_into() immediately following it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-01-20fs: make build_open_flags() available internallyJens Axboe
This is a prep patch for supporting non-blocking open from io_uring. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
2020-01-18open: introduce openat2(2) syscallAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ For a very long time, extending openat(2) with new features has been incredibly frustrating. This stems from the fact that openat(2) is possibly the most famous counter-example to the mantra "don't silently accept garbage from userspace" -- it doesn't check whether unknown flags are present[1]. This means that (generally) the addition of new flags to openat(2) has been fraught with backwards-compatibility issues (O_TMPFILE has to be defined as __O_TMPFILE|O_DIRECTORY|[O_RDWR or O_WRONLY] to ensure old kernels gave errors, since it's insecure to silently ignore the flag[2]). All new security-related flags therefore have a tough road to being added to openat(2). Userspace also has a hard time figuring out whether a particular flag is supported on a particular kernel. While it is now possible with contemporary kernels (thanks to [3]), older kernels will expose unknown flag bits through fcntl(F_GETFL). Giving a clear -EINVAL during openat(2) time matches modern syscall designs and is far more fool-proof. In addition, the newly-added path resolution restriction LOOKUP flags (which we would like to expose to user-space) don't feel related to the pre-existing O_* flag set -- they affect all components of path lookup. We'd therefore like to add a new flag argument. Adding a new syscall allows us to finally fix the flag-ignoring problem, and we can make it extensible enough so that we will hopefully never need an openat3(2). /* Syscall Prototype. */ /* * open_how is an extensible structure (similar in interface to * clone3(2) or sched_setattr(2)). The size parameter must be set to * sizeof(struct open_how), to allow for future extensions. All future * extensions will be appended to open_how, with their zero value * acting as a no-op default. */ struct open_how { /* ... */ }; int openat2(int dfd, const char *pathname, struct open_how *how, size_t size); /* Description. */ The initial version of 'struct open_how' contains the following fields: flags Used to specify openat(2)-style flags. However, any unknown flag bits or otherwise incorrect flag combinations (like O_PATH|O_RDWR) will result in -EINVAL. In addition, this field is 64-bits wide to allow for more O_ flags than currently permitted with openat(2). mode The file mode for O_CREAT or O_TMPFILE. Must be set to zero if flags does not contain O_CREAT or O_TMPFILE. resolve Restrict path resolution (in contrast to O_* flags they affect all path components). The current set of flags are as follows (at the moment, all of the RESOLVE_ flags are implemented as just passing the corresponding LOOKUP_ flag). RESOLVE_NO_XDEV => LOOKUP_NO_XDEV RESOLVE_NO_SYMLINKS => LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS RESOLVE_NO_MAGICLINKS => LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS RESOLVE_BENEATH => LOOKUP_BENEATH RESOLVE_IN_ROOT => LOOKUP_IN_ROOT open_how does not contain an embedded size field, because it is of little benefit (userspace can figure out the kernel open_how size at runtime fairly easily without it). It also only contains u64s (even though ->mode arguably should be a u16) to avoid having padding fields which are never used in the future. Note that as a result of the new how->flags handling, O_PATH|O_TMPFILE is no longer permitted for openat(2). As far as I can tell, this has always been a bug and appears to not be used by userspace (and I've not seen any problems on my machines by disallowing it). If it turns out this breaks something, we can special-case it and only permit it for openat(2) but not openat2(2). After input from Florian Weimer, the new open_how and flag definitions are inside a separate header from uapi/linux/fcntl.h, to avoid problems that glibc has with importing that header. /* Testing. */ In a follow-up patch there are over 200 selftests which ensure that this syscall has the correct semantics and will correctly handle several attack scenarios. In addition, I've written a userspace library[4] which provides convenient wrappers around openat2(RESOLVE_IN_ROOT) (this is necessary because no other syscalls support RESOLVE_IN_ROOT, and thus lots of care must be taken when using RESOLVE_IN_ROOT'd file descriptors with other syscalls). During the development of this patch, I've run numerous verification tests using libpathrs (showing that the API is reasonably usable by userspace). /* Future Work. */ Additional RESOLVE_ flags have been suggested during the review period. These can be easily implemented separately (such as blocking auto-mount during resolution). Furthermore, there are some other proposed changes to the openat(2) interface (the most obvious example is magic-link hardening[5]) which would be a good opportunity to add a way for userspace to restrict how O_PATH file descriptors can be re-opened. Another possible avenue of future work would be some kind of CHECK_FIELDS[6] flag which causes the kernel to indicate to userspace which openat2(2) flags and fields are supported by the current kernel (to avoid userspace having to go through several guesses to figure it out). [1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/588444/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFyyxJL1LyXZeBsf2ypriraj5ut1XkNDsunRBqgVjZU_6Q@mail.gmail.com [3]: commit 629e014bb834 ("fs: completely ignore unknown open flags") [4]: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17523 [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190930183316.10190-2-cyphar@cyphar.com/ [6]: https://youtu.be/ggD-eb3yPVs Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-11-26Revert "vfs: properly and reliably lock f_pos in fdget_pos()"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 0be0ee71816b2b6725e2b4f32ad6726c9d729777. I was hoping it would be benign to switch over entirely to FMODE_STREAM, and we'd have just a couple of small fixups we'd need, but it looks like we're not quite there yet. While it worked fine on both my desktop and laptop, they are fairly similar in other respects, and run mostly the same loads. Kenneth Crudup reports that it seems to break both his vmware installation and the KDE upower service. In both cases apparently leading to timeouts due to waitinmg for the f_pos lock. There are a number of character devices in particular that definitely want stream-like behavior, but that currently don't get marked as streams, and as a result get the exclusion between concurrent read()/write() on the same file descriptor. Which doesn't work well for them. The most obvious example if this is /dev/console and /dev/tty, which use console_fops and tty_fops respectively (and ptmx_fops for the pty master side). It may be that it's just this that causes problems, but we clearly weren't ready yet. Because there's a number of other likely common cases that don't have llseek implementations and would seem to act as stream devices: /dev/fuse (fuse_dev_operations) /dev/mcelog (mce_chrdev_ops) /dev/mei0 (mei_fops) /dev/net/tun (tun_fops) /dev/nvme0 (nvme_dev_fops) /dev/tpm0 (tpm_fops) /proc/self/ns/mnt (ns_file_operations) /dev/snd/pcm* (snd_pcm_f_ops[]) and while some of these could be trivially automatically detected by the vfs layer when the character device is opened by just noticing that they have no read or write operations either, it often isn't that obvious. Some character devices most definitely do use the file position, even if they don't allow seeking: the firmware update code, for example, uses simple_read_from_buffer() that does use f_pos, but doesn't allow seeking back and forth. We'll revisit this when there's a better way to detect the problem and fix it (possibly with a coccinelle script to do more of the FMODE_STREAM annotations). Reported-by: Kenneth R. Crudup <kenny@panix.com> Cc: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@nexedi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>