kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/Documentation/filesystems, branch linux-4.19.y

md: switch to ->check_events for media change notifications

2024-03-26T22:22:34+00:00

[ Upstream commit a564e23f0f99759f453dbefcb9160dec6d99df96 ] md is the last driver using the legacy media_changed method. Switch it over to (not so) new ->clear_events approach, which also removes the need for the ->revalidate_disk method. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig [axboe: remove unused 'bdops' variable in disk_clear_events()] Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe Stable-dep-of: 9674f54e41ff ("md: Don't clear MD_CLOSING when the raid is about to stop") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

locks: print a warning when mount fails due to lack of "mand" support

2021-08-26T12:36:49+00:00

[ Upstream commit df2474a22c42ce419b67067c52d71da06c385501 ] Since 9e8925b67a ("locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile time"), attempts to mount filesystems with "-o mand" will fail. Unfortunately, there is no other indiciation of the reason for the failure. Change how the function is defined for better readability. When CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING is disabled, printk a warning when someone attempts to mount with -o mand. Also, add a blurb to the mandatory-locking.txt file to explain about the "mand" option, and the behavior one should expect when it is disabled. Reported-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

sysfs: Add sysfs_emit and sysfs_emit_at to format sysfs output

2021-03-07T11:19:01+00:00

commit 2efc459d06f1630001e3984854848a5647086232 upstream. Output defects can exist in sysfs content using sprintf and snprintf. sprintf does not know the PAGE_SIZE maximum of the temporary buffer used for outputting sysfs content and it's possible to overrun the PAGE_SIZE buffer length. Add a generic sysfs_emit function that knows that the size of the temporary buffer and ensures that no overrun is done. Add a generic sysfs_emit_at function that can be used in multiple call situations that also ensures that no overrun is done. Validate the output buffer argument to be page aligned. Validate the offset len argument to be within the PAGE_SIZE buf. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/884235202216d464d61ee975f7465332c86f76b2.1600285923.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed.

2021-03-04T08:39:56+00:00

commit b3656d8227f4c45812c6b40815d8f4e446ed372a upstream. Patch series "Fix some seq_file users that were recently broken". A recent change to seq_file broke some users which were using seq_file in a non-"standard" way ... though the "standard" isn't documented, so they can be excused. The result is a possible leak - of memory in one case, of references to a 'transport' in the other. These three patches: 1/ document and explain the problem 2/ fix the problem user in x86 3/ fix the problem user in net/sctp This patch (of 3): Users of seq_file will sometimes find it convenient to take a resource, such as a lock or memory allocation, in the ->start or ->next operations. These are per-entry resources, distinct from per-session resources which are taken in ->start and released in ->stop. The preferred management of these is release the resource on the subsequent call to ->next or ->stop. However prior to Commit 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") it happened that ->show would always be called after ->start or ->next, and a few users chose to release the resource in ->show. This is no longer reliable. Since the mentioned commit, ->next will always come after a successful ->show (to ensure m->index is updated correctly), so the original ordering cannot be maintained. This patch updates the documentation to clearly state the required behaviour. Other patches will fix the few problematic users. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix typo, per Willy] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248518659.21478.2484341937387294998.stgit@noble1 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/161248539020.21478.3147971477400875336.stgit@noble1 Fixes: 1f4aace60b0e ("fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Cc: Xin Long Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Vlad Yasevich Cc: Neil Horman Cc: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner Cc: "David S. Miller" Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fscrypt: return -EXDEV for incompatible rename or link into encrypted dir

2020-11-05T10:08:35+00:00

commit f5e55e777cc93eae1416f0fa4908e8846b6d7825 upstream. Currently, trying to rename or link a regular file, directory, or symlink into an encrypted directory fails with EPERM when the source file is unencrypted or is encrypted with a different encryption policy, and is on the same mountpoint. It is correct for the operation to fail, but the choice of EPERM breaks tools like 'mv' that know to copy rather than rename if they see EXDEV, but don't know what to do with EPERM. Our original motivation for EPERM was to encourage users to securely handle their data. Encrypting files by "moving" them into an encrypted directory can be insecure because the unencrypted data may remain in free space on disk, where it can later be recovered by an attacker. It's much better to encrypt the data from the start, or at least try to securely delete the source data e.g. using the 'shred' program. However, the current behavior hasn't been effective at achieving its goal because users tend to be confused, hack around it, and complain; see e.g. https://github.com/google/fscrypt/issues/76. And in some cases it's actually inconsistent or unnecessary. For example, 'mv'-ing files between differently encrypted directories doesn't work even in cases where it can be secure, such as when in userspace the same passphrase protects both directories. Yet, you *can* already 'mv' unencrypted files into an encrypted directory if the source files are on a different mountpoint, even though doing so is often insecure. There are probably better ways to teach users to securely handle their files. For example, the 'fscrypt' userspace tool could provide a command that migrates unencrypted files into an encrypted directory, acting like 'shred' on the source files and providing appropriate warnings depending on the type of the source filesystem and disk. Receiving errors on unimportant files might also force some users to disable encryption, thus making the behavior counterproductive. It's desirable to make encryption as unobtrusive as possible. Therefore, change the error code from EPERM to EXDEV so that tools looking for EXDEV will fall back to a copy. This, of course, doesn't prevent users from still doing the right things to securely manage their files. Note that this also matches the behavior when a file is renamed between two project quota hierarchies; so there's precedent for using EXDEV for things other than mountpoints. xfstests generic/398 will require an update with this change. [Rewritten from an earlier patch series by Michael Halcrow.] Cc: Michael Halcrow Cc: Joe Richey Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

affs: fix basic permission bits to actually work

2020-09-09T17:04:30+00:00

commit d3a84a8d0dde4e26bc084b36ffcbdc5932ac85e2 upstream. The basic permission bits (protection bits in AmigaOS) have been broken in Linux' AFFS - it would only set bits, but never delete them. Also, contrary to the documentation, the Archived bit was not handled. Let's fix this for good, and set the bits such that Linux and classic AmigaOS can coexist in the most peaceful manner. Also, update the documentation to represent the current state of things. Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Max Staudt Signed-off-by: David Sterba Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cifs_atomic_open(): fix double-put on late allocation failure

2020-03-18T06:14:21+00:00

commit d9a9f4849fe0c9d560851ab22a85a666cddfdd24 upstream. 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

mm, thp, proc: report THP eligibility for each vma

2019-12-17T19:35:45+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7635d9cbe8327e131a1d3d8517dc186c2796ce2e ] Userspace falls short when trying to find out whether a specific memory range is eligible for THP. There are usecases that would like to know that http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.1809251248450.50347@chino.kir.corp.google.com : This is used to identify heap mappings that should be able to fault thp : but do not, and they normally point to a low-on-memory or fragmentation : issue. The only way to deduce this now is to query for hg resp. nh flags and confronting the state with the global setting. Except that there is also PR_SET_THP_DISABLE that might change the picture. So the final logic is not trivial. Moreover the eligibility of the vma depends on the type of VMA as well. In the past we have supported only anononymous memory VMAs but things have changed and shmem based vmas are supported as well these days and the query logic gets even more complicated because the eligibility depends on the mount option and another global configuration knob. Simplify the current state and report the THP eligibility in /proc//smaps for each existing vma. Reuse transparent_hugepage_enabled for this purpose. The original implementation of this function assumes that the caller knows that the vma itself is supported for THP so make the core checks into __transparent_hugepage_enabled and use it for existing callers. __show_smap just use the new transparent_hugepage_enabled which also checks the vma support status (please note that this one has to be out of line due to include dependency issues). [mhocko@kernel.org: fix oops with NULL ->f_mapping] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181224185106.GC16738@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181211143641.3503-3-mhocko@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Dan Williams Cc: David Rientjes Cc: Jan Kara Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Paul Oppenheimer Cc: William Kucharski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ovl: fix regression caused by overlapping layers detection

2019-09-21T05:17:14+00:00

commit 0be0bfd2de9dfdd2098a9c5b14bdd8f739c9165d upstream. Once upon a time, commit 2cac0c00a6cd ("ovl: get exclusive ownership on upper/work dirs") in v4.13 added some sanity checks on overlayfs layers. This change caused a docker regression. The root cause was mount leaks by docker, which as far as I know, still exist. To mitigate the regression, commit 85fdee1eef1a ("ovl: fix regression caused by exclusive upper/work dir protection") in v4.14 turned the mount errors into warnings for the default index=off configuration. Recently, commit 146d62e5a586 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers") in v5.2, re-introduced exclusive upper/work dir checks regardless of index=off configuration. This changes the status quo and mount leak related bug reports have started to re-surface. Restore the status quo to fix the regressions. To clarify, index=off does NOT relax overlapping layers check for this ovelayfs mount. index=off only relaxes exclusive upper/work dir checks with another overlayfs mount. To cover the part of overlapping layers detection that used the exclusive upper/work dir checks to detect overlap with self upper/work dir, add a trap also on the work base dir. Link: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34672 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20171006121405.GA32700@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu/ Link: https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3540 Fixes: 146d62e5a586 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers") Cc: # v4.19+ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Tested-by: Colin Walters Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dcache: sort the freeing-without-RCU-delay mess for good.

2019-05-25T16:23:26+00:00

commit 5467a68cbf6884c9a9d91e2a89140afb1839c835 upstream. For lockless accesses to dentries we don't have pinned we rely (among other things) upon having an RCU delay between dropping the last reference and actually freeing the memory. On the other hand, for things like pipes and sockets we neither do that kind of lockless access, nor want to deal with the overhead of an RCU delay every time a socket gets closed. So delay was made optional - setting DCACHE_RCUACCESS in ->d_flags made sure it would happen. We tried to avoid setting it unless we knew we need it. Unfortunately, that had led to recurring class of bugs, in which we missed the need to set it. We only really need it for dentries that are created by d_alloc_pseudo(), so let's not bother with trying to be smart - just make having an RCU delay the default. The ones that do *not* get it set the replacement flag (DCACHE_NORCU) and we'd better use that sparingly. d_alloc_pseudo() is the only such user right now. FWIW, the race that finally prompted that switch had been between __lock_parent() of immediate subdirectory of what's currently the root of a disconnected tree (e.g. from open-by-handle in progress) racing with d_splice_alias() elsewhere picking another alias for the same inode, either on outright corrupted fs image, or (in case of open-by-handle on NFS) that subdirectory having been just moved on server. It's not easy to hit, so the sky is not falling, but that's not the first race on similar missed cases and the logics for settinf DCACHE_RCUACCESS has gotten ridiculously convoluted. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman