When deleting a directory in the security file system, the existing securityfs_remove requires the directory to be empty, otherwise it will do nothing. This leads to a potential risk that the security file system might be in an unclean state when the intentded deletion did not happen. This commit introduces a new function securityfs_recursive_remove to recursively delete a directory without leaving an unclean state. Co-developed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Fan Wu <wufan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- v1-v8: + Not present v9: + Introduced v10: + No changes v11: + Fix code style issues --- include/linux/security.h | 1 + security/inode.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/security.h b/include/linux/security.h index 5f16eecde00b..8fa3bab9fa10 100644 --- a/include/linux/security.h +++ b/include/linux/security.h @@ -1985,6 +1985,7 @@ struct dentry *securityfs_create_symlink(const char *name, const char *target, const struct inode_operations *iops); extern void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry); +extern void securityfs_recursive_remove(struct dentry *dentry); #else /* CONFIG_SECURITYFS */ diff --git a/security/inode.c b/security/inode.c index 3aa75fffa8c9..e0585c2946c5 100644 --- a/security/inode.c +++ b/security/inode.c @@ -313,6 +313,31 @@ void securityfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(securityfs_remove); +static void remove_one(struct dentry *victim) +{ + simple_release_fs(&mount, &mount_count); +} + +/** + * securityfs_recursive_remove - recursively removes a file or directory + * + * @dentry: a pointer to a the dentry of the file or directory to be removed. + * + * This function recursively removes a file or directory in securityfs that was + * previously created with a call to another securityfs function (like + * securityfs_create_file() or variants thereof.) + */ +void securityfs_recursive_remove(struct dentry *dentry) +{ + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dentry)) + return; + + simple_pin_fs(&fs_type, &mount, &mount_count); + simple_recursive_removal(dentry, remove_one); + simple_release_fs(&mount, &mount_count); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(securityfs_recursive_remove); + #ifdef CONFIG_SECURITY static struct dentry *lsm_dentry; static ssize_t lsm_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, -- 2.25.1