When delivering an event to userspace for a file on an NFS share,
if the file is deleted on server side before user reads the event,
user will not get the event.
If the event queue contained several events, the stale event is
quietly dropped and read() returns to user with events read so far
in the buffer.
If the event queue contains a single stale event or if the stale
event is a permission event, read() returns to user with the kernel
internal error code 518 (EOPENSTALE), which is not a POSIX error code.
Check the internal return value -EOPENSTALE in fanotify_read(), just
the same as it is checked in path_openat() and drop the event in the
cases that it is not already dropped.
This is a reproducer from Marko Rauhamaa:
Just take the example program listed under "man fanotify" ("fantest")
and follow these steps:
==============================================================
NFS Server NFS Client(1) NFS Client(2)
==============================================================
# echo foo >/nfsshare/bar.txt
# cat /nfsshare/bar.txt
foo
# ./fantest /nfsshare
Press enter key to terminate.
Listening for events.
# rm -f /nfsshare/bar.txt
# cat /nfsshare/bar.txt
read: Unknown error 518
cat: /nfsshare/bar.txt: Operation not permitted
==============================================================
where NFS Client (1) and (2) are two terminal sessions on a single NFS
Client machine.
Reported-by: Marko Rauhamaa <marko.rauhamaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Marko Rauhamaa <marko.rauhamaa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
Jan,
This is v2 patch that was tested by Marko.
It includes your fix to my v1 patch.
Marko tested both blocking and non-blocking fanotify fd.
I did not test with stale NFS files myself, but I did test by emulating
stale NFS files with orphan files, using this test patch to create_fd():
put_unused_fd(client_fd);
client_fd = PTR_ERR(new_file);
> } else if (!event->path.dentry->d_inode ||
> !event->path.dentry->d_inode->i_nlink) {
> put_unused_fd(client_fd);
> fput(new_file);
> return -EOPENSTALE;
} else {
*file = new_file;
}
I CC'ed linux-api in case Michael would want to add a BUGS note on this
and CC'ed stable because we should consider patching this bug in older
kernels. After all, Marko discovered this bug in a RHEL kernel.
Thanks,
Amir.
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 2b37f27..4b3437d 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -295,27 +295,37 @@ static ssize_t fanotify_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
}
ret = copy_event_to_user(group, kevent, buf);
+ if (unlikely(ret == -EOPENSTALE)) {
+ /*
+ * We cannot report events with stale fd so drop it.
+ * Setting ret to 0 will continue the event loop and
+ * do the right thing if there are no more events to
+ * read (i.e. return bytes read, -EAGAIN or wait).
+ */
+ ret = 0;
+ }
+
/*
* Permission events get queued to wait for response. Other
* events can be destroyed now.
*/
if (!(kevent->mask & FAN_ALL_PERM_EVENTS)) {
fsnotify_destroy_event(group, kevent);
- if (ret < 0)
- break;
} else {
#ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
- if (ret < 0) {
+ if (ret <= 0) {
FANOTIFY_PE(kevent)->response = FAN_DENY;
wake_up(&group->fanotify_data.access_waitq);
- break;
+ } else {
+ spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
+ list_add_tail(&kevent->list,
+ &group->fanotify_data.access_list);
+ spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
}
- spin_lock(&group->notification_lock);
- list_add_tail(&kevent->list,
- &group->fanotify_data.access_list);
- spin_unlock(&group->notification_lock);
#endif
}
+ if (ret < 0)
+ break;
buf += ret;
count -= ret;
}
--
2.7.4
