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2010-07-28fsnotify: split generic and inode specific mark codeEric Paris
currently all marking is done by functions in inode-mark.c. Some of this is pretty generic and should be instead done in a generic function and we should only put the inode specific code in inode-mark.c Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: take inode->i_lock inside fsnotify_find_mark_entry()Andreas Gruenbacher
All callers to fsnotify_find_mark_entry() except one take and release inode->i_lock around the call. Take the lock inside fsnotify_find_mark_entry() instead. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: rename mark_entry to just markEric Paris
rename anything in inotify that deals with mark_entry to just be mark. It makes a lot more sense. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: rename fsnotify_find_mark_entry to fsnotify_find_markEric Paris
the _entry portion of fsnotify functions is useless. Drop it. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: rename fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_markEric Paris
The name is long and it serves no real purpose. So rename fsnotify_mark_entry to just fsnotify_mark. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: put inode specific fields in an fsnotify_mark in a unionEric Paris
The addition of marks on vfs mounts will be simplified if the inode specific parts of a mark and the vfsmnt specific parts of a mark are actually in a union so naming can be easy. This patch just implements the inode struct and the union. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: drop mask argument from fsnotify_alloc_groupEric Paris
Nothing uses the mask argument to fsnotify_alloc_group. This patch drops that argument. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: fsnotify_obtain_group should be fsnotify_alloc_groupEric Paris
fsnotify_obtain_group was intended to be able to find an already existing group. Nothing uses that functionality. This just renames it to fsnotify_alloc_group so it is clear what it is doing. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: remove group_num altogetherEric Paris
The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be able to find a group after it was added. I no longer think this is a necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: per group notification queue merge typesEric Paris
inotify only wishes to merge a new event with the last event on the notification fifo. fanotify is willing to merge any events including by means of bitwise OR masks of multiple events together. This patch moves the inotify event merging logic out of the generic fsnotify notification.c and into the inotify code. This allows each use of fsnotify to provide their own merge functionality. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: do not spam console without limitEric Paris
inotify was supposed to have a dmesg printk ratelimitor which would cause inotify to only emit one message per boot. The static bool was never set so it kept firing messages. This patch correctly limits warnings in multiple places. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: do not reuse watch descriptorsEric Paris
Prior to 2.6.31 inotify would not reuse watch descriptors until all of them had been used at least once. After the rewrite inotify would reuse watch descriptors. The selinux utility 'restorecond' was found to have problems when watch descriptors were reused. This patch reverts to the pre inotify rewrite behavior to not reuse watch descriptors. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: use container_of instead of castingEric Paris
inotify_free_mark casts directly from an fsnotify_mark_entry to an inotify_inode_mark_entry. This works, but should use container_of instead for future proofing. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28fsnotify: allow addition of duplicate fsnotify marksEric Paris
This patch allows a task to add a second fsnotify mark to an inode for the same group. This mark will be added to the end of the inode's list and this will never be found by the stand fsnotify_find_mark() function. This is useful if a user wants to add a new mark before removing the old one. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-07-28inotify: simplify the inotify idr handlingEric Paris
This patch moves all of the idr editing operations into their own idr functions. It makes it easier to prove locking correctness and to to understand the code flow. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-05-14inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marksEric Paris
There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code. A task can find and remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references. This can result in a use after free/double free situation. Task A Task B ------------ ----------- inotify_new_watch() allocate a mark (refcnt == 1) add it to the idr inotify_rm_watch() inotify_remove_from_idr() fsnotify_put_mark() refcnt hits 0, free take reference because we are on idr [at this point it is a use after free] [time goes on] refcnt may hit 0 again, double free The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the idr. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
2010-05-14inotify: clean up the inotify_add_watch out pathEric Paris
inotify_add_watch explictly frees the unused inode mark, but it can just use the generic code. Just do that. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2010-02-19switch inotify_user to anon_inodeAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-01-15inotify: do not reuse watch descriptorsEric Paris
Since commit 7e790dd5fc937bc8d2400c30a05e32a9e9eef276 ("inotify: fix error paths in inotify_update_watch") inotify changed the manor in which it gave watch descriptors back to userspace. Previous to this commit inotify acted like the following: inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1 inotify_rm_watch(X, 1); inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 2 but after this patch inotify would return watch descriptors like so: inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1 inotify_rm_watch(X, 1); inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1 which I saw as equivalent to opening an fd where open(file) = 1; close(1); open(file) = 1; seemed perfectly reasonable. The issue is that quite a bit of userspace apparently relies on the behavior in which watch descriptors will not be quickly reused. KDE relies on it, I know some selinux packages rely on it, and I have heard complaints from other random sources such as debian bug 558981. Although the man page implies what we do is ok, we broke userspace so this patch almost reverts us to the old behavior. It is still slightly racey and I have patches that would fix that, but they are rather large and this will fix it for all real world cases. The race is as follows: - task1 creates a watch and blocks in idr_new_watch() before it updates the hint. - task2 creates a watch and updates the hint. - task1 updates the hint with it's older wd - task removes the watch created by task2 - task adds a new watch and will reuse the wd originally given to task2 it requires moving some locking around the hint (last_wd) but this should solve it for the real world and be -stable safe. As a side effect this patch papers over a bug in the lib/idr code which is causing a large number WARN's to pop on people's system and many reports in kerneloops.org. I'm working on the root cause of that idr bug seperately but this should make inotify immune to that issue. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-16switch alloc_file() to passing struct pathAl Viro
... and have the caller grab both mnt and dentry; kill leak in infiniband, while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-16switched inotify_init1() to alloc_file()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-12-09Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (42 commits) tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments reiserfs: fix misspelling of "journaled" doc: Fix a typo in slub.txt. inotify: remove superfluous return code check hdlc: spelling fix in find_pvc() comment doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteism mtd: Fix comment in Kconfig doc: Fix IRQ chip docs tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the place drivers/ata/libata-sff.c: comment spelling fixes fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txt sysctl: add missing comments fs/debugfs/inode.c: fix comment typos sgivwfb: Make use of ARRAY_SIZE. sky2: fix sky2_link_down copy/paste comment error tree-wide: fix typos "couter" -> "counter" tree-wide: fix typos "offest" -> "offset" fix kerneldoc for set_irq_msi() spidev: fix double "of of" in comment comment typo fix: sybsystem -> subsystem ...
2009-12-04inotify: remove superfluous return code checkGiuseppe Scrivano
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-18sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.Eric W. Biederman
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL. Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12sysctl fs: Remove dead binary sysctl supportEric W. Biederman
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them. Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-08-28inotify: update the group mask on mark additionEric Paris
Seperating the addition and update of marks in inotify resulted in a regression in that inotify never gets events. The inotify group mask is always 0. This mask should be updated any time a new mark is added. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-28inotify: fix length reporting and size checkingEric Paris
0db501bd0610ee0c0 introduced a regresion in that it now sends a nul terminator but the length accounting when checking for space or reporting to userspace did not take this into account. This corrects all of the rounding logic. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-28inotify: do not send a block of zeros when no pathname is availableBrian Rogers
When an event has no pathname, there's no need to pad it with a null byte and therefore generate an inotify_event sized block of zeros. This fixes a regression introduced by commit 0db501bd0610ee0c0aca84d927f90bcccd09e2bd where my system wouldn't finish booting because some process was being confused by this. Signed-off-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-27inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL.Eric W. Biederman
Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0' byte to user space after the filename. Since the rewrite that terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of event_size. Ouch! So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the strange nul_inotify_event. I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to do. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-27inotify: fix locking around inotify watching in the idrEric Paris
The are races around the idr storage of inotify watches. It's possible that a watch could be found from sys_inotify_rm_watch() in the idr, but it could be removed from the idr before that code does it's removal. Move the locking and the refcnt'ing so that these have to happen atomically. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-27inotify: seperate new watch creation updating existing watchesEric Paris
There is nothing known wrong with the inotify watch addition/modification but this patch seperates the two code paths to make them each easy to verify as correct. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-08-17inotify: start watch descriptor count at 1Eric Paris
The inotify_add_watch man page specifies that inotify_add_watch() will return a non-negative integer. However, historically the inotify watches started at 1, not at 0. Turns out that the inotifywait program provided by the inotify-tools package doesn't properly handle a 0 watch descriptor. In 7e790dd5 we changed from starting at 1 to starting at 0. This patch starts at 1, just like in previous kernels, but also just like in previous kernels it's possible for it to wrap back to 0. This preserves the kernel functionality exactly like it was before the patch (neither method broke the spec) Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-17notify: unused event private raceEric Paris
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was used by checking list_empty(). But it's possible that the event may have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty. The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather than looking at the list. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-21inotify: use GFP_NOFS under potential memory pressureEric Paris
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.31-rc2 #16 --------------------------------- inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage. khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3 {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at: [<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4 [<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2 [<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323 [<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36 [<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2 [<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c [<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d [<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b [<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff Two things are needed to fix this. First we need a method to tell fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time. This solves current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21inotify: fix error paths in inotify_update_watchEric Paris
inotify_update_watch could leave things in a horrid state on a number of error paths. We could try to remove idr entries that didn't exist, we could send an IN_IGNORED to userspace for watches that don't exist, and a bit of other stupidity. Clean these up by doing the idr addition before we put the mark on the inode since we can clean that up on error and getting off the inode's mark list is hard. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21inotify: do not leak inode marks in inotify_add_watchEric Paris
inotify_add_watch had a couple of problems. The biggest being that if inotify_add_watch was called on the same inode twice (to update or change the event mask) a refence was taken on the original inode mark by fsnotify_find_mark_entry but was not being dropped at the end of the inotify_add_watch call. Thus if inotify_rm_watch was called although the mark was removed from the inode, the refcnt wouldn't hit zero and we would leak memory. Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-21inotify: drop user watch count when a watch is removedEric Paris
The inotify rewrite forgot to drop the inotify watch use cound when a watch was removed. This means that a single inotify fd can only ever register a maximum of /proc/sys/fs/max_user_watches even if some of those had been freed. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-07-02fs/notify/inotify: decrement user inotify count on closeKeith Packard
The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a limited number of calls. Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2009-06-19inotify: inotify_destroy_mark_entry could get called twiceEric Paris
inotify_destroy_mark_entry could get called twice for the same mark since it is called directly in inotify_rm_watch and when the mark is being destroyed for another reason. As an example assume that the file being watched was just deleted so inotify_destroy_mark_entry would get called from the path fsnotify_inoderemove() -> fsnotify_destroy_marks_by_inode() -> fsnotify_destroy_mark_entry() -> inotify_destroy_mark_entry(). If this happened at the same time as userspace tried to remove a watch via inotify_rm_watch we could attempt to remove the mark from the idr twice and could thus double dec the ref cnt and potentially could be in a use after free/double free situation. The fix is to have inotify_rm_watch use the generic recursive safe fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry() so we are sure the inotify_destroy_mark_entry() function can only be called one. This patch also renames the function to inotify_ingored_remove_idr() so it is clear what is actually going on in the function. Hopefully this fixes: [ 20.342058] idr_remove called for id=20 which is not allocated. [ 20.348000] Pid: 1860, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.30-tip #1077 [ 20.353933] Call Trace: [ 20.356410] [<ffffffff811a82b7>] idr_remove+0x115/0x18f [ 20.361737] [<ffffffff8134259d>] ? _spin_lock+0x6d/0x75 [ 20.367061] [<ffffffff8111640a>] ? inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xa3/0xcf [ 20.373771] [<ffffffff8111641e>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xb7/0xcf [ 20.380306] [<ffffffff81115913>] inotify_freeing_mark+0xe/0x10 [ 20.386238] [<ffffffff8111410d>] fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry+0x143/0x170 [ 20.393293] [<ffffffff811163a3>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0x3c/0xcf [ 20.399829] [<ffffffff811164d1>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x9b/0xc6 [ 20.405850] [<ffffffff8100bcdb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Tested-by: Peter Ziljlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2009-06-11inotify: reimplement inotify using fsnotifyEric Paris
Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify. This should be feature for feature exactly the same as the original inotify_user. This does not make any changes to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit. Those patches (and the eventual removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be working correctly. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2009-05-06inotify: use GFP_NOFS in kernel_event() to work around a lockdep false-positiveWu Fengguang
There is what we believe to be a false positive reported by lockdep. inotify_inode_queue_event() => take inotify_mutex => kernel_event() => kmalloc() => SLOB => alloc_pages_node() => page reclaim => slab reclaim => dcache reclaim => inotify_inode_is_dead => take inotify_mutex => deadlock The plan is to fix this via lockdep annotation, but that is proving to be quite involved. The patch flips the allocation over to GFP_NFS to shut the warning up, for the 2.6.30 release. Hopefully we will fix this for real in 2.6.31. I'll queue a patch in -mm to switch it back to GFP_KERNEL so we don't forget. ================================= [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.30-rc2-next-20090417 #203 --------------------------------- inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage. kswapd0/380 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (&inode->inotify_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0 {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at: [<ffffffff81079188>] mark_held_locks+0x68/0x90 [<ffffffff810792a5>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xf5/0x100 [<ffffffff810f5261>] __kmalloc_node+0x31/0x1e0 [<ffffffff81130652>] kernel_event+0xe2/0x190 [<ffffffff81130826>] inotify_dev_queue_event+0x126/0x230 [<ffffffff8112f096>] inotify_inode_queue_event+0xc6/0x110 [<ffffffff8110444d>] vfs_create+0xcd/0x140 [<ffffffff8110825d>] do_filp_open+0x88d/0xa20 [<ffffffff810f6b68>] do_sys_open+0x98/0x140 [<ffffffff810f6c50>] sys_open+0x20/0x30 [<ffffffff8100c272>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff irq event stamp: 690455 hardirqs last enabled at (690455): [<ffffffff81564fe4>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x80 hardirqs last disabled at (690454): [<ffffffff81565372>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x32/0xa0 softirqs last enabled at (690178): [<ffffffff81052282>] __do_softirq+0x202/0x220 softirqs last disabled at (690157): [<ffffffff8100d50c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x50 other info that might help us debug this: 2 locks held by kswapd0/380: #0: (shrinker_rwsem){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff810d0bd7>] shrink_slab+0x37/0x180 #1: (&type->s_umount_key#17){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff8110cfbf>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x11f/0x1e0 stack backtrace: Pid: 380, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.30-rc2-next-20090417 #203 Call Trace: [<ffffffff810789ef>] print_usage_bug+0x19f/0x200 [<ffffffff81018bff>] ? save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50 [<ffffffff81078f0b>] mark_lock+0x4bb/0x6d0 [<ffffffff810799e0>] ? check_usage_forwards+0x0/0xc0 [<ffffffff8107b142>] __lock_acquire+0xc62/0x1ae0 [<ffffffff810f478c>] ? slob_free+0x10c/0x370 [<ffffffff8107c0a1>] lock_acquire+0xe1/0x120 [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0 [<ffffffff81562d43>] mutex_lock_nested+0x63/0x420 [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0 [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0 [<ffffffff81012fe9>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [<ffffffff81077165>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x35/0x1c0 [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0 [<ffffffff8110c9dc>] dentry_iput+0xbc/0xe0 [<ffffffff8110cb23>] d_kill+0x33/0x60 [<ffffffff8110ce23>] __shrink_dcache_sb+0x2d3/0x350 [<ffffffff8110cffa>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x15a/0x1e0 [<ffffffff810d0cc5>] shrink_slab+0x125/0x180 [<ffffffff810d1540>] kswapd+0x560/0x7a0 [<ffffffff810ce160>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x2c0 [<ffffffff81065a30>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff8107953d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [<ffffffff810d0fe0>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x7a0 [<ffffffff8106555b>] kthread+0x5b/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100d40a>] child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff8100cdd0>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30 [<ffffffff81065500>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff8100d400>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 [eparis@redhat.com: fix audit too] Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-26inotify: clean up inotify_read and fix locking problemsVegard Nossum
If userspace supplies an invalid pointer to a read() of an inotify instance, the inotify device's event list mutex is unlocked twice. This causes an unbalance which effectively leaves the data structure unprotected, and we can trigger oopses by accessing the inotify instance from different tasks concurrently. The best fix (contributed largely by Linus) is a total rewrite of the function in question: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > The thing to notice is that: > > - locking is done in just one place, and there is no question about it > not having an unlock. > > - that whole double-while(1)-loop thing is gone. > > - use multiple functions to make nesting and error handling sane > > - do error testing after doing the things you always need to do, ie do > this: > > mutex_lock(..) > ret = function_call(); > mutex_unlock(..) > > .. test ret here .. > > instead of doing conditional exits with unlocking or freeing. > > So if the code is written in this way, it may still be buggy, but at least > it's not buggy because of subtle "forgot to unlock" or "forgot to free" > issues. > > This _always_ unlocks if it locked, and it always frees if it got a > non-error kevent. Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 29Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-14[CVE-2009-0029] System call wrappers part 28Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2009-01-05inotify: fix type errors in interfacesMichael Kerrisk
The problems lie in the types used for some inotify interfaces, both at the kernel level and at the glibc level. This mail addresses the kernel problem. I will follow up with some suggestions for glibc changes. For the sys_inotify_rm_watch() interface, the type of the 'wd' argument is currently 'u32', it should be '__s32' . That is Robert's suggestion, and is consistent with the other declarations of watch descriptors in the kernel source, in particular, the inotify_event structure in include/linux/inotify.h: struct inotify_event { __s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */ __u32 mask; /* watch mask */ __u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */ __u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */ char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */ }; The patch makes the changes needed for inotify_rm_watch(). Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-12-31filesystem notification: create fs/notify to contain all fs notificationEric Paris
Creating a generic filesystem notification interface, fsnotify, which will be used by inotify, dnotify, and eventually fanotify is really starting to clutter the fs directory. This patch simply moves inotify and dnotify into fs/notify/inotify and fs/notify/dnotify respectively to make both current fs/ and future notification tidier. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>