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Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains the usual selections of misc updates for this cycle.
Features:
- Use folios for symlinks in the page cache
FUSE already uses folios for its symlinks. Mirror that conversion
in the generic code and the NFS code. That lets us get rid of a few
folio->page->folio conversions in this path, and some of the few
remaining users of read_cache_page() / read_mapping_page()
- Try and make a few filesystem operations killable on the VFS
inode->i_mutex level
- Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
Some workloads need to preserve more dentries than we currently
allow through out sysctl interface
A HDFS servers with 12 HDDs per server, on a HDFS datanode startup
involves scanning all files and caching their metadata (including
dentries and inodes) in memory. Each HDD contains approximately 2
million files, resulting in a total of ~20 million cached dentries
after initialization
To minimize dentry reclamation, they set vfs_cache_pressure to 1.
Despite this configuration, memory pressure conditions can still
trigger reclamation of up to 50% of cached dentries, reducing the
cache from 20 million to approximately 10 million entries. During
the subsequent cache rebuild period, any HDFS datanode restart
operation incurs substantial latency penalties until full cache
recovery completes
To maintain service stability, more dentries need to be preserved
during memory reclamation. The current minimum reclaim ratio (1/100
of total dentries) remains too aggressive for such workload. This
patch introduces vfs_cache_pressure_denom for more granular cache
pressure control
The configuration [vfs_cache_pressure=1,
vfs_cache_pressure_denom=10000] effectively maintains the full 20
million dentry cache under memory pressure, preventing datanode
restart performance degradation
- Avoid some jumps in inode_permission() using likely()/unlikely()
- Avid a memory access which is most likely a cache miss when
descending into devcgroup_inode_permission()
- Add fastpath predicts for stat() and fdput()
- Anonymous inodes currently don't come with a proper mode causing
issues in the kernel when we want to add useful VFS debug assert.
Fix that by giving them a proper mode and masking it off when we
report it to userspace which relies on them not having any mode
- Anonymous inodes currently allow to change inode attributes because
the VFS falls back to simple_setattr() if i_op->setattr isn't
implemented. This means the ownership and mode for every single
user of anon_inode_inode can be changed. Block that as it's either
useless or actively harmful. If specific ownership is needed the
respective subsystem should allocate anonymous inodes from their
own private superblock
- Raise SB_I_NODEV and SB_I_NOEXEC on the anonymous inode superblock
- Add proper tests for anonymous inode behavior
- Make it easy to detect proper anonymous inodes and to ensure that
we can detect them in codepaths such as readahead()
Cleanups:
- Port pidfs to the new anon_inode_{g,s}etattr() helpers
- Try to remove the uselib() system call
- Add unlikely branch hint return path for poll
- Add unlikely branch hint on return path for core_sys_select
- Don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying for fuse
- Provide a size hint to dir_context for during readdir()
- Use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
- Update compression and mtime descriptions in initramfs
documentation
- Update main netfs API document
- Remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
- Remove unnecessary NULL-check guards during setns()
- Add separate separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op cases
Fixes:
- Fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
- Use KERN_INFO for infof()|info_plog()|infofc()
- Correct comments of fs_validate_description()
- Mark an unlikely if condition with unlikely() in
vfs_parse_monolithic_sep()
- Delete macro fsparam_u32hex()
- Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
- Fix potential unsigned integer underflow in fs_name()
- Make file-nr output the total allocated file handles"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: (43 commits)
fs: Pass a folio to page_put_link()
nfs: Use a folio in nfs_get_link()
fs: Convert __page_get_link() to use a folio
fs/read_write: make default_llseek() killable
fs/open: make do_truncate() killable
fs/open: make chmod_common() and chown_common() killable
include/linux/fs.h: add inode_lock_killable()
readdir: supply dir_context.count as readdir buffer size hint
vfs: Add sysctl vfs_cache_pressure_denom for bulk file operations
fuse: don't allow signals to interrupt getdents copying
Documentation: fix typo in root= kernel parameter description
include/cgroup: separate {get,put}_cgroup_ns no-op case
kernel/nsproxy: remove unnecessary guards
fs: use writeback_iter directly in mpage_writepages
fs: remove useless plus one in super_cache_scan()
fs: add S_ANON_INODE
fs: remove uselib() system call
device_cgroup: avoid access to ->i_rdev in the common case in devcgroup_inode_permission()
fs/fs_parse: Remove unused and problematic validate_constant_table()
fs: touch up predicts in inode_permission()
...
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs directory lookup updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains cleanups for the lookup_one*() family of helpers.
We expose a set of functions with names containing "lookup_one_len"
and others without the "_len". This difference has nothing to do with
"len". It's rater a historical accident that can be confusing.
The functions without "_len" take a "mnt_idmap" pointer. This is found
in the "vfsmount" and that is an important question when choosing
which to use: do you have a vfsmount, or are you "inside" the
filesystem. A related question is "is permission checking relevant
here?".
nfsd and cachefiles *do* have a vfsmount but *don't* use the non-_len
functions. They pass nop_mnt_idmap and refuse to work on filesystems
which have any other idmap.
This work changes nfsd and cachefile to use the lookup_one family of
functions and to explictily pass &nop_mnt_idmap which is consistent
with all other vfs interfaces used where &nop_mnt_idmap is explicitly
passed.
The remaining uses of the "_one" functions do not require permission
checks so these are renamed to be "_noperm" and the permission
checking is removed.
This series also changes these lookup function to take a qstr instead
of separate name and len. In many cases this simplifies the call"
* tag 'vfs-6.16-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
VFS: change lookup_one_common and lookup_noperm_common to take a qstr
Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS
VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
cachefiles: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
nfsd: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions
This is a preparation for large readdir buffers in fuse.
Simply setting the fuse buffer size to the userspace buffer size should
work, the record sizes are similar (fuse's is slightly larger than libc's,
so no overflow should ever happen).
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250513151012.1476536-1-mszeredi@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Add the __counted_by() compiler attribute to the flexible array member
'__lowerstack' to improve access bounds-checking via CONFIG_UBSAN_BOUNDS
and CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
In ovl_path_type() and ovl_is_metacopy_dentry() GCC notices that it is
possible for OVL_E() to return NULL (which implies that d_inode(dentry)
may be NULL). This would result in out of bounds reads via container_of(),
seen with GCC 15's -Warray-bounds -fdiagnostics-details. For example:
In file included from arch/x86/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1,
from include/linux/compiler.h:339,
from include/linux/export.h:5,
from include/linux/linkage.h:7,
from include/linux/fs.h:5,
from fs/overlayfs/util.c:7:
In function 'ovl_upperdentry_dereference',
inlined from 'ovl_dentry_upper' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:305:9,
inlined from 'ovl_path_type' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:216:6:
include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:44:26: error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'struct inode[7486503276667837]' [-Werror=array-bounds=]
44 | #define __READ_ONCE(x) (*(const volatile __unqual_scalar_typeof(x) *)&(x))
| ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:50:9: note: in expansion of macro '__READ_ONCE'
50 | __READ_ONCE(x); \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~
fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:195:16: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
195 | return READ_ONCE(oi->__upperdentry);
| ^~~~~~~~~
'ovl_path_type': event 1
185 | return inode ? OVL_I(inode)->oe : NULL;
'ovl_path_type': event 2
Avoid this by allowing ovl_dentry_upper() to return NULL if d_inode() is
NULL, as that means the problematic dereferencing can never be reached.
Note that this fixes the over-eager compiler warning in an effort to
being able to enable -Warray-bounds globally. There is no known
behavioral bug here.
Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
This allows the "verity" mount option to be used with "userxattr" data-only
layer(s).
Also it allows dropping the "metacopy=on" option when the "datadir+" option
is to be used. This cleanly separates the two features that have been
lumped together under "metacopy=on":
- data-redirect: data access is redirected to the data-only layer
- meta-copy: copy up metadata only if possible
Previous patches made sure that with "userxattr" metacopy only works in the
lower -> data scenario.
In this scenario the lower (metadata) layer must be secured against
tampering, in which case the verity checksums contained in this layer can
ensure integrity of data even in the case of an untrusted data layer.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Allow the special case of a redirect from a lower layer to a data layer
without having to turn on metacopy. This makes the feature work with
userxattr, which in turn allows data layers to be usable in user
namespaces.
Minimize the risk by only enabling redirect from a single lower layer to a
data layer iff a data layer is specified. The only way to access a data
layer is to enable this, so there's really no reason not to enable this.
This can be used safely if the lower layer is read-only and the
user.overlay.redirect xattr cannot be modified.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
When overlayfs finds a file with metacopy and/or redirect attributes and
the metacopy and/or redirect features are not enabled, then it refuses to
act on those attributes while also issuing a warning.
There was an inconsistency in not checking metacopy found from the index.
And also only warning on an upper metacopy if it found the next file on the
lower layer, while always warning for metacopy found on a lower layer.
Fix these inconsistencies and make the logic more straightforward, paving
the way for following patches to change when data redirects are allowed.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
The lookup_one_len family of functions is (now) only used internally by
a filesystem on itself either
- in a context where permission checking is irrelevant such as by a
virtual filesystem populating itself, or xfs accessing its ORPHANAGE
or dquota accessing the quota file; or
- in a context where a permission check (MAY_EXEC on the parent) has just
been performed such as a network filesystem finding in "silly-rename"
file in the same directory. This is also the context after the
_parentat() functions where currently lookup_one_qstr_excl() is used.
So the permission check is pointless.
The name "one_len" is unhelpful in understanding the purpose of these
functions and should be changed. Most of the callers pass the len as
"strlen()" so using a qstr and QSTR() can simplify the code.
This patch renames these functions (include lookup_positive_unlocked()
which is part of the family despite the name) to have a name based on
"lookup_noperm". They are changed to receive a 'struct qstr' instead
of separate name and len. In a few cases the use of QSTR() results in a
new call to strlen().
try_lookup_noperm() takes a pointer to a qstr instead of the whole
qstr. This is consistent with d_hash_and_lookup() (which is nearly
identical) and useful for lookup_noperm_unlocked().
The new lookup_noperm_common() doesn't take a qstr yet. That will be
tidied up in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-5-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The ovl_get_verity_xattr() function was never added, only its declaration.
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Fixes: 184996e92e ("ovl: Validate verity xattr when resolving lowerdata")
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data
layer, but there's no current use case for this.
Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,
only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling
this case, resulting in an Oops.
Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.
Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Fixes: 24e16e385f ("ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.7
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
The family of functions:
lookup_one()
lookup_one_unlocked()
lookup_one_positive_unlocked()
appear designed to be used by external clients of the filesystem rather
than by filesystems acting on themselves as the lookup_one_len family
are used.
They are used by:
btrfs/ioctl - which is a user-space interface rather than an internal
activity
exportfs - i.e. from nfsd or the open_by_handle_at interface
overlayfs - at access the underlying filesystems
smb/server - for file service
They should be used by nfsd (more than just the exportfs path) and
cachefs but aren't.
It would help if the documentation didn't claim they should "not be
called by generic code".
Also the path component name is passed as "name" and "len" which are
(confusingly?) separate by the "base". In some cases the len in simply
"strlen" and so passing a qstr using QSTR() would make the calling
clearer.
Other callers do pass separate name and len which are stored in a
struct. Sometimes these are already stored in a qstr, other times it
easily could be.
So this patch changes these three functions to receive a 'struct qstr *',
and improves the documentation.
QSTR_LEN() is added to make it easy to pass a QSTR containing a known
len.
[brauner@kernel.org: take a struct qstr pointer]
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-2-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs async dir updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains cleanups that fell out of the work from async directory
handling:
- Change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return
a negative dentry. This simplifies the usability of these helpers
in various places
- Drop d_exact_alias() from the remaining place in NFS where it is
still used. This also allows us to drop the d_exact_alias() helper
completely
- Drop an unnecessary call to fh_update() from nfsd_create_locked()
- Change i_op->mkdir() to return a struct dentry
Change vfs_mkdir() to return a dentry provided by the filesystems
which is hashed and positive. This allows us to reduce the number
of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to very few
cases. The code in these places becomes simpler and easier to
understand.
- Repack DENTRY_* and LOOKUP_* flags"
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.async.dir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
doc: fix inline emphasis warning
VFS: Change vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry.
nfs: change mkdir inode_operation to return alternate dentry if needed.
fuse: return correct dentry for ->mkdir
ceph: return the correct dentry on mkdir
hostfs: store inode in dentry after mkdir if possible.
Change inode_operations.mkdir to return struct dentry *
nfsd: drop fh_update() from S_IFDIR branch of nfsd_create_locked()
nfs/vfs: discard d_exact_alias()
VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
VFS: repack LOOKUP_ bit flags.
VFS: repack DENTRY_ flags.
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.overlayfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Currently overlayfs uses the mounter's credentials for its
override_creds() calls. That provides a consistent permission model.
This patches allows a caller to instruct overlayfs to use its
credentials instead. The caller must be located in the same user
namespace hierarchy as the user namespace the overlayfs instance will
be mounted in. This provides a consistent and simple security model.
With this it is possible to e.g., mount an overlayfs instance where
the mounter must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN but the credentials used for
override_creds() have dropped CAP_SYS_ADMIN. It also allows the usage
of custom fs{g,u}id different from the callers and other tweaks"
* tag 'vfs-6.15-rc1.overlayfs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests/ovl: add third selftest for "override_creds"
selftests/ovl: add second selftest for "override_creds"
selftests/filesystems: add utils.{c,h}
selftests/ovl: add first selftest for "override_creds"
ovl: allow to specify override credentials
vfs_mkdir() does not guarantee to leave the child dentry hashed or make
it positive on success, and in many such cases the filesystem had to use
a different dentry which it can now return.
This patch changes vfs_mkdir() to return the dentry provided by the
filesystems which is hashed and positive when provided. This reduces
the number of cases where the resulting dentry is not positive to a
handful which don't deserve extra efforts.
The only callers of vfs_mkdir() which are interested in the resulting
inode are in-kernel filesystem clients: cachefiles, nfsd, smb/server.
The only filesystems that don't reliably provide the inode are:
- kernfs, tracefs which these clients are unlikely to be interested in
- cifs in some configurations would need to do a lookup to find the
created inode, but doesn't. cifs cannot be exported via NFS, is
unlikely to be used by cachefiles, and smb/server only has a soft
requirement for the inode, so this is unlikely to be a problem in
practice.
- hostfs, nfs, cifs may need to do a lookup (rarely for NFS) and it is
possible for a race to make that lookup fail. Actual failure
is unlikely and providing callers handle negative dentries graceful
they will fail-safe.
So this patch removes the lookup code in nfsd and smb/server and adjusts
them to fail safe if a negative dentry is provided:
- cache-files already fails safe by restarting the task from the
top - it still does with this change, though it no longer calls
cachefiles_put_directory() as that will crash if the dentry is
negative.
- nfsd reports "Server-fault" which it what it used to do if the lookup
failed. This will never happen on any file-systems that it can actually
export, so this is of no consequence. I removed the fh_update()
call as that is not needed and out-of-place. A subsequent
nfsd_create_setattr() call will call fh_update() when needed.
- smb/server only wants the inode to call ksmbd_smb_inherit_owner()
which updates ->i_uid (without calling notify_change() or similar)
which can be safely skipping on cifs (I hope).
If a different dentry is returned, the first one is put. If necessary
the fact that it is new can be determined by comparing pointers. A new
dentry will certainly have a new pointer (as the old is put after the
new is obtained).
Similarly if an error is returned (via ERR_PTR()) the original dentry is
put.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-7-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Some filesystems, such as NFS, cifs, ceph, and fuse, do not have
complete control of sequencing on the actual filesystem (e.g. on a
different server) and may find that the inode created for a mkdir
request already exists in the icache and dcache by the time the mkdir
request returns. For example, if the filesystem is mounted twice the
directory could be visible on the other mount before it is on the
original mount, and a pair of name_to_handle_at(), open_by_handle_at()
calls could instantiate the directory inode with an IS_ROOT() dentry
before the first mkdir returns.
This means that the dentry passed to ->mkdir() may not be the one that
is associated with the inode after the ->mkdir() completes. Some
callers need to interact with the inode after the ->mkdir completes and
they currently need to perform a lookup in the (rare) case that the
dentry is no longer hashed.
This lookup-after-mkdir requires that the directory remains locked to
avoid races. Planned future patches to lock the dentry rather than the
directory will mean that this lookup cannot be performed atomically with
the mkdir.
To remove this barrier, this patch changes ->mkdir to return the
resulting dentry if it is different from the one passed in.
Possible returns are:
NULL - the directory was created and no other dentry was used
ERR_PTR() - an error occurred
non-NULL - this other dentry was spliced in
This patch only changes file-systems to return "ERR_PTR(err)" instead of
"err" or equivalent transformations. Subsequent patches will make
further changes to some file-systems to return a correct dentry.
Not all filesystems reliably result in a positive hashed dentry:
- NFS, cifs, hostfs will sometimes need to perform a lookup of
the name to get inode information. Races could result in this
returning something different. Note that this lookup is
non-atomic which is what we are trying to avoid. Placing the
lookup in filesystem code means it only happens when the filesystem
has no other option.
- kernfs and tracefs leave the dentry negative and the ->revalidate
operation ensures that lookup will be called to correctly populate
the dentry. This could be fixed but I don't think it is important
to any of the users of vfs_mkdir() which look at the dentry.
The recommendation to use
d_drop();d_splice_alias()
is ugly but fits with current practice. A planned future patch will
change this.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227013949.536172-2-neilb@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
The issue was caused by dput(upper) being called before
ovl_dentry_update_reval(), while upper->d_flags was still
accessed in ovl_dentry_remote().
Move dput(upper) after its last use to prevent use-after-free.
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114
print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline]
print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488
kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601
ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline]
ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167
ovl_link_up fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:610 [inline]
ovl_copy_up_one+0x2105/0x3490 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1170
ovl_copy_up_flags+0x18d/0x200 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1223
ovl_rename+0x39e/0x18c0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1136
vfs_rename+0xf84/0x20a0 fs/namei.c:4893
...
</TASK>
Fixes: b07d5cc93e ("ovl: update of dentry revalidate flags after copy up")
Reported-by: syzbot+316db8a1191938280eb6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=316db8a1191938280eb6
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev <kovalev@altlinux.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214215148.761147-1-kovalev@altlinux.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Currently overlayfs uses the mounter's credentials for it's
override_creds() calls. That provides a consistent permission model.
This patches allows a caller to instruct overlayfs to use its
credentials instead. The caller must be located in the same user
namespace hierarchy as the user namespace the overlayfs instance will be
mounted in. This provides a consistent and simple security model.
With this it is possible to e.g., mount an overlayfs instance where the
mounter must have CAP_SYS_ADMIN but the credentials used for
override_creds() have dropped CAP_SYS_ADMIN. It also allows the usage of
custom fs{g,u}id different from the callers and other tweaks.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250219-work-overlayfs-v3-1-46af55e4ceda@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
"Two unrelated patches - one is a removal of long-obsolete include in
overlayfs (it used to need fs/internal.h, but the extern it wanted has
been moved back to include/linux/namei.h) and another introduces
convenience helper constructing struct qstr by a NUL-terminated
string"
* tag 'pull-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
add a string-to-qstr constructor
fs/overlayfs/namei.c: get rid of include ../internal.h
Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name
and parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers;
->d_revalidate() is the major exception.
It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for
expected name and expected parent of the dentry being
validated. That kills quite a bit of boilerplate in
->d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch of races
where they used to access ->d_name without sufficient
precautions.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs d_revalidate updates from Al Viro:
"Provide stable parent and name to ->d_revalidate() instances
Most of the filesystem methods where we care about dentry name and
parent have their stability guaranteed by the callers;
->d_revalidate() is the major exception.
It's easy enough for callers to supply stable values for expected name
and expected parent of the dentry being validated. That kills quite a
bit of boilerplate in ->d_revalidate() instances, along with a bunch
of races where they used to access ->d_name without sufficient
precautions"
* tag 'pull-revalidate' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
9p: fix ->rename_sem exclusion
orangefs_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
nfs: fix ->d_revalidate() UAF on ->d_name accesses
nfs{,4}_lookup_validate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
gfs2_drevalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
fuse_dentry_revalidate(): use stable parent inode and name passed by caller
vfat_revalidate{,_ci}(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
exfat_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
fscrypt_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
ceph_d_revalidate(): propagate stable name down into request encoding
ceph_d_revalidate(): use stable parent inode passed by caller
afs_d_revalidate(): use stable name and parent inode passed by caller
Pass parent directory inode and expected name to ->d_revalidate()
generic_ci_d_compare(): use shortname_storage
ext4 fast_commit: make use of name_snapshot primitives
dissolve external_name.u into separate members
make take_dentry_name_snapshot() lockless
dcache: back inline names with a struct-wrapped array of unsigned long
make sure that DNAME_INLINE_LEN is a multiple of word size
->d_revalidate() often needs to access dentry parent and name; that has
to be done carefully, since the locking environment varies from caller
to caller. We are not guaranteed that dentry in question will not be
moved right under us - not unless the filesystem is such that nothing
on it ever gets renamed.
It can be dealt with, but that results in boilerplate code that isn't
even needed - the callers normally have just found the dentry via dcache
lookup and want to verify that it's in the right place; they already
have the values of ->d_parent and ->d_name stable. There is a couple
of exceptions (overlayfs and, to less extent, ecryptfs), but for the
majority of calls that song and dance is not needed at all.
It's easier to make ecryptfs and overlayfs find and pass those values if
there's a ->d_revalidate() instance to be called, rather than doing that
in the instances.
This commit only changes the calling conventions; making use of supplied
values is left to followups.
NOTE: some instances need more than just the parent - things like CIFS
may need to build an entire path from filesystem root, so they need
more precautions than the usual boilerplate. This series doesn't
do anything to that need - these filesystems have to keep their locking
mechanisms (rename_lock loops, use of dentry_path_raw(), private rwsem
a-la v9fs).
One thing to keep in mind when using name is that name->name will normally
point into the pathname being resolved; the filename in question occupies
name->len bytes starting at name->name, and there is NUL somewhere after it,
but it the next byte might very well be '/' rather than '\0'. Do not
ignore name->len.
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Dmitry Safonov reported that a WARN_ON() assertion can be trigered by
userspace when calling inotify_show_fdinfo() for an overlayfs watched
inode, whose dentry aliases were discarded with drop_caches.
The WARN_ON() assertion in inotify_show_fdinfo() was removed, because
it is possible for encoding file handle to fail for other reason, but
the impact of failing to encode an overlayfs file handle goes beyond
this assertion.
As shown in the LTP test case mentioned in the link below, failure to
encode an overlayfs file handle from a non-aliased inode also leads to
failure to report an fid with FAN_DELETE_SELF fanotify events.
As Dmitry notes in his analyzis of the problem, ovl_encode_fh() fails
if it cannot find an alias for the inode, but this failure can be fixed.
ovl_encode_fh() seldom uses the alias and in the case of non-decodable
file handles, as is often the case with fanotify fid info,
ovl_encode_fh() never needs to use the alias to encode a file handle.
Defer finding an alias until it is actually needed so ovl_encode_fh()
will not fail in the common case of FAN_DELETE_SELF fanotify events.
Fixes: 16aac5ad1f ("ovl: support encoding non-decodable file handles")
Reported-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxiie81voLZZi2zXS1BziXZCM24nXqPAxbu8kxXCUWdwOg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250105162404.357058-3-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Encoding file handles is usually performed by a filesystem >encode_fh()
method that may fail for various reasons.
The legacy users of exportfs_encode_fh(), namely, nfsd and
name_to_handle_at(2) syscall are ready to cope with the possibility
of failure to encode a file handle.
There are a few other users of exportfs_encode_{fh,fid}() that
currently have a WARN_ON() assertion when ->encode_fh() fails.
Relax those assertions because they are wrong.
The second linked bug report states commit 16aac5ad1f ("ovl: support
encoding non-decodable file handles") in v6.6 as the regressing commit,
but this is not accurate.
The aforementioned commit only increases the chances of the assertion
and allows triggering the assertion with the reproducer using overlayfs,
inotify and drop_caches.
Triggering this assertion was always possible with other filesystems and
other reasons of ->encode_fh() failures and more particularly, it was
also possible with the exact same reproducer using overlayfs that is
mounted with options index=on,nfs_export=on also on kernels < v6.6.
Therefore, I am not listing the aforementioned commit as a Fixes commit.
Backport hint: this patch will have a trivial conflict applying to
v6.6.y, and other trivial conflicts applying to stable kernels < v6.6.
Reported-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+ec07f6f5ce62b858579f@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/671fd40c.050a0220.4735a.024f.GAE@google.com/
Reported-by: Dmitry Safonov <dima@arista.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAGrbwDTLt6drB9eaUagnQVgdPBmhLfqqxAf3F+Juqy_o6oP8uw@mail.gmail.com/
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241219115301.465396-1-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
security_inode_copy_up() allocates a set of new credentials and has
taken a reference count.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-18-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Convert all calls to revert_creds() over to explicitly dropping
reference counts in preparation for converting revert_creds() to
revert_creds_light() semantics.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-3-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Convert all callers from override_creds() to
override_creds_light(get_new_cred()) in preparation of making
override_creds() not take a separate reference at all.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125-work-cred-v2-1-68b9d38bb5b2@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein:
- Fix a syzbot reported NULL pointer deref with bfs lower layers
- Fix a copy up failure of large file from lower fuse fs
- Followup cleanup of backing_file API from Miklos
- Introduction and use of revert/override_creds_light() helpers, that
were suggested by Christian as a mitigation to cache line bouncing
and false sharing of fields in overlayfs creator_cred long lived
struct cred copy.
- Store up to two backing file references (upper and lower) in an
ovl_file container instead of storing a single backing file in
file->private_data.
This is used to avoid the practice of opening a short lived backing
file for the duration of some file operations and to avoid the
specialized use of FDPUT_FPUT in such occasions, that was getting in
the way of Al's fd_file() conversions.
* tag 'ovl-update-6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
ovl: Filter invalid inodes with missing lookup function
ovl: convert ovl_real_fdget() callers to ovl_real_file()
ovl: convert ovl_real_fdget_path() callers to ovl_real_file_path()
ovl: store upper real file in ovl_file struct
ovl: allocate a container struct ovl_file for ovl private context
ovl: do not open non-data lower file for fsync
ovl: Optimize override/revert creds
ovl: pass an explicit reference of creators creds to callers
ovl: use wrapper ovl_revert_creds()
fs/backing-file: Convert to revert/override_creds_light()
cred: Add a light version of override/revert_creds()
backing-file: clean up the API
ovl: properly handle large files in ovl_security_fileattr
and friends
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull statx updates from Al Viro:
"Sanitize struct filename and lookup flags handling in statx and
friends"
* tag 'pull-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
libfs: kill empty_dir_getattr()
fs: Simplify getattr interface function checking AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag
fs/stat.c: switch to CLASS(fd_raw)
kill getname_statx_lookup_flags()
io_statx_prep(): use getname_uflags()
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Christian Brauner:
"Make overlayfs support specifying layers through file descriptors.
Currently overlayfs only allows specifying layers through path names.
This is inconvenient for users that want to assemble an overlayfs
mount purely based on file descriptors:
This enables user to specify both:
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "upperdir+", NULL, fd_upper);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "workdir+", NULL, fd_work);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, fd_lower1);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_FD, "lowerdir+", NULL, fd_lower2);
in addition to:
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "upperdir+", "/upper", 0);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "workdir+", "/work", 0);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir+", "/lower1", 0);
fsconfig(fd_overlay, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir+", "/lower2", 0);
There's also a large set of new overlayfs selftests to test new
features and some older properties"
* tag 'vfs-6.13.ovl' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests: add test for specifying 500 lower layers
selftests: add overlayfs fd mounting selftests
selftests: use shared header
Documentation,ovl: document new file descriptor based layers
ovl: specify layers via file descriptors
fs: add helper to use mount option as path or fd
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Merge tag 'vfs-6.13.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs
Pull vfs file updates from Christian Brauner:
"This contains changes the changes for files for this cycle:
- Introduce a new reference counting mechanism for files.
As atomic_inc_not_zero() is implemented with a try_cmpxchg() loop
it has O(N^2) behaviour under contention with N concurrent
operations and it is in a hot path in __fget_files_rcu().
The rcuref infrastructures remedies this problem by using an
unconditional increment relying on safe- and dead zones to make
this work and requiring rcu protection for the data structure in
question. This not just scales better it also introduces overflow
protection.
However, in contrast to generic rcuref, files require a memory
barrier and thus cannot rely on *_relaxed() atomic operations and
also require to be built on atomic_long_t as having massive amounts
of reference isn't unheard of even if it is just an attack.
This adds a file specific variant instead of making this a generic
library.
This has been tested by various people and it gives consistent
improvement up to 3-5% on workloads with loads of threads.
- Add a fastpath for find_next_zero_bit(). Skip 2-levels searching
via find_next_zero_bit() when there is a free slot in the word that
contains the next fd. This improves pts/blogbench-1.1.0 read by 8%
and write by 4% on Intel ICX 160.
- Conditionally clear full_fds_bits since it's very likely that a bit
in full_fds_bits has been cleared during __clear_open_fds(). This
improves pts/blogbench-1.1.0 read up to 13%, and write up to 5% on
Intel ICX 160.
- Get rid of all lookup_*_fdget_rcu() variants. They were used to
lookup files without taking a reference count. That became invalid
once files were switched to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU and now we're
always taking a reference count. Switch to an already existing
helper and remove the legacy variants.
- Remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>.
- Avoid cmpxchg() in close_files() as nobody else has a reference to
the files_struct at that point.
- Move close_range() into fs/file.c and fold __close_range() into it.
- Cleanup calling conventions of alloc_fdtable() and expand_files().
- Merge __{set,clear}_close_on_exec() into one.
- Make __set_open_fd() set cloexec as well instead of doing it in two
separate steps"
* tag 'vfs-6.13.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs:
selftests: add file SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU recycling stressor
fs: port files to file_ref
fs: add file_ref
expand_files(): simplify calling conventions
make __set_open_fd() set cloexec state as well
fs: protect backing files with rcu
file.c: merge __{set,clear}_close_on_exec()
alloc_fdtable(): change calling conventions.
fs/file.c: add fast path in find_next_fd()
fs/file.c: conditionally clear full_fds
fs/file.c: remove sanity_check and add likely/unlikely in alloc_fd()
move close_range(2) into fs/file.c, fold __close_range() into it
close_files(): don't bother with xchg()
remove pointless includes of <linux/fdtable.h>
get rid of ...lookup...fdget_rcu() family
Stop using struct fd to return a real file from ovl_real_fdget(),
because we no longer return a temporary file object and the callers
always get a borrowed file reference.
Rename the helper to ovl_real_file(), return a borrowed reference of
the real file that is referenced from the overlayfs file or an error.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Stop using struct fd to return a real file from ovl_real_fdget_path(),
because we no longer return a temporary file object and the callers
always get a borrowed file reference.
Rename the helper to ovl_real_file_path(), return a borrowed reference
of the real file that is referenced from the overlayfs file or an error.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
When an overlayfs file is opened as lower and then the file is copied up,
every operation on the overlayfs open file will open a temporary backing
file to the upper dentry and close it at the end of the operation.
Store the upper real file along side the original (lower) real file in
ovl_file instead of opening a temporary upper file on every operation.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Instead of using ->private_data to point at realfile directly, so
that we can add more context per ovl open file.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
ovl_fsync() with !datasync opens a backing file from the top most dentry
in the stack, checks if this dentry is non-upper and skips the fsync.
In case of an overlay dentry stack with lower data and lower metadata
above it, but without an upper metadata above it, the backing file is
opened from the top most lower metadata dentry and never used.
Refactor the helper ovl_real_fdget_meta() into ovl_real_fdget_path() and
open code the checks for non-upper inode in ovl_fsync(), so in that case
we can avoid the unneeded backing file open.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Use override_creds_light() in ovl_override_creds() and
revert_creds_light() in ovl_revert_creds().
The _light() functions do not change the 'usage' of the credentials in
question, as they refer to the credentials associated with the
mounter, which have a longer lifetime.
In ovl_setup_cred_for_create(), do not need to modify the mounter
credentials (returned by override_creds_light()) 'usage' counter.
Add a warning to verify that we are indeed working with the mounter
credentials (stored in the superblock). Failure in this assumption
means that creds may leak.
Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
ovl_setup_cred_for_create() decrements one refcount of new creds and
ovl_revert_creds() in callers decrements the last refcount.
In preparation to revert_creds_light() back to caller creds, pass an
explicit reference of the creators creds to the callers and drop the
refcount explicitly in the callers after ovl_revert_creds().
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Commit 8a924db2d7 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface
function")' introduced the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to ensure that the
call paths only call vfs_getattr_nosec if it is set instead of vfs_getattr.
Now, simplify the getattr interface functions of filesystems where the flag
AT_GETATTR_NOSEC is checked.
There is only a single caller of inode_operations getattr function and it
is located in fs/stat.c in vfs_getattr_nosec. The caller there is the only
one from which the AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag is passed from.
Two filesystems are checking this flag in .getattr and the flag is always
passed to them unconditionally from only vfs_getattr_nosec:
- ecryptfs: Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
ecryptfs_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
function and this function is not called otherwise.
- overlayfs: Simplify by always calling vfs_getattr_nosec in
ovl_getattr. From there the flag is passed to no other
function and this function is not called otherwise.
The query_flags in vfs_getattr_nosec will mask-out AT_GETATTR_NOSEC from
any caller using AT_STATX_SYNC_TYPE as mask so that the flag is not
important inside this function. Also, since no filesystem is checking the
flag anymore, remove the flag entirely now, including the BUG_ON check that
never triggered.
The net change of the changes here combined with the original commit is
that ecryptfs and overlayfs do not call vfs_getattr but only
vfs_getattr_nosec.
Fixes: 8a924db2d7 ("fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function")
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20241101011724.GN1350452@ZenIV/T/#u
Cc: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Introduce ovl_revert_creds() wrapper of revert_creds() to
match callers of ovl_override_creds().
Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vinicius.gomes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
