Re: [PATCH 00/17] VFS: Filesystem information and notifications [ver #17]

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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:05 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:58:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:43:22PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 05:25:49PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 08:46:09AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I'm doing a patch.   Let's see how it fares in the face of all these
> > > > > preconceptions.
> > > >
> > > > Here's a first cut.  Doesn't yet have superblock info, just mount info.
> > > > Probably has rough edges, but appears to work.
> > >
> > > For starters, you have just made namespace_sem held over copy_to_user().
> > > This is not going to fly.
> >
> > In case if the above is too terse: you grab your mutex while under
> > namespace_sem (see attach_recursive_mnt()); the same mutex is held
> > while calling dir_emit().  Which can (and normally does) copy data
> > to userland-supplied buffer.
> >
> > NAK for that reason alone, and to be honest I had been too busy
> > suppressing the gag reflex to read and comment any deeper.
> >
> > I really hate that approach, in case it's not clear from the above.
> > To the degree that I don't trust myself to filter out the obscenities
> > if I try to comment on it right now.
> >
> > The only blocking thing we can afford under namespace_sem is GFP_KERNEL
> > allocation.
>
> Incidentally, attach_recursive_mnt() only gets you the root(s) of
> attached tree(s); try mount --rbind and see how much you've missed.

Okay.  Both trivially fixable:

 - the dir_emit() can be taken out from under the mutex and the rb
tree search repeated for every entry; possibly not as efficient, but I
guess at this point that's irrelevant

 - addition of the mountfs entry moved to the right places

Thanks,
Miklos



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