Hey Linus,
/* Summary */
This contains the usual miscellaneous fixes:
* Avoid calling back into LSMs from vfs_getattr_nosec() calls.
IMA used to query inode properties accessing raw inode fields without
dedicated helpers. That was finally fixed a few releases ago by
forcing IMA to use vfs_getattr_nosec() helpers.
The goal of the vfs_getattr_nosec() helper is to query for attributes
without calling into the LSM layer which would be quite problematic
because incredibly IMA is called from __fput()...
__fput()
-> ima_file_free()
What it does is to call back into the filesystem to update the file's
IMA xattr. Querying the inode without using vfs_getattr_nosec() meant
that IMA didn't handle stacking filesystems such as overlayfs
correctly. So the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() is quite correct. But
the switch to vfs_getattr_nosec() revealed another bug when used on
stacking filesystems:
__fput()
-> ima_file_free()
-> vfs_getattr_nosec()
-> i_op->getattr::ovl_getattr()
-> vfs_getattr()
-> i_op->getattr::$WHATEVER_UNDERLYING_FS_getattr()
-> security_inode_getattr() # calls back into LSMs
Now, if that __fput() happens from task_work_run() of an exiting task
current->fs and various other pointer could already be NULL. So
anything in the LSM layer relying on that not being NULL would be
quite surprised.
Fix that by passing the information that this is a security request
through to the stacking filesystem by adding a new internal
ATT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag. Now the callchain becomes:
__fput()
-> ima_file_free()
-> vfs_getattr_nosec()
-> i_op->getattr::ovl_getattr()
-> if (AT_GETATTR_NOSEC)
vfs_getattr_nosec()
else
vfs_getattr()
-> i_op->getattr::$WHATEVER_UNDERLYING_FS_getattr()
* Fix a bug introduced with the iov_iter rework from last cycle.
This broke /proc/kcore by copying too much and without the correct
offset.
* Add a missing NULL check when allocating the root inode in
autofs_fill_super().
* Fix stable writes for multi-device filesystems (xfs, btrfs etc) and
the block device pseudo filesystem.
Stable writes used to be a superblock flag only, making it a per
filesystem property. Add an additional AS_STABLE_WRITES mapping flag
to allow for fine-grained control.
* Ensure that offset_iterate_dir() returns 0 after reaching the end of a
directory so it adheres to getdents() convention.
/* Testing */
clang: Debian clang version 16.0.6 (16)
gcc: gcc (Debian 13.2.0-5) 13.2.0
All patches are based on v6.7-rc1 and have been sitting in linux-next.
No build failures or warnings were observed. Passes xfstests.
/* Conflicts */
At the time of creating this PR no merge conflicts were reported from
linux-next and no merge conflicts showed up doing a test-merge with
current mainline.
The following changes since commit b85ea95d086471afb4ad062012a4d73cd328fa86:
Linux 6.7-rc1 (2023-11-12 16:19:07 -0800)
are available in the Git repository at:
git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes
for you to fetch changes up to 796432efab1e372d404e7a71cc6891a53f105051:
libfs: getdents() should return 0 after reaching EOD (2023-11-20 15:34:22 +0100)
Please consider pulling these changes from the signed vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes tag.
Thanks!
Christian
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vfs-6.7-rc3.fixes
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Christoph Hellwig (4):
filemap: add a per-mapping stable writes flag
block: update the stable_writes flag in bdev_add
xfs: clean up FS_XFLAG_REALTIME handling in xfs_ioctl_setattr_xflags
xfs: respect the stable writes flag on the RT device
Chuck Lever (1):
libfs: getdents() should return 0 after reaching EOD
Ian Kent (1):
autofs: add: new_inode check in autofs_fill_super()
Omar Sandoval (1):
iov_iter: fix copy_page_to_iter_nofault()
Stefan Berger (1):
fs: Pass AT_GETATTR_NOSEC flag to getattr interface function
block/bdev.c | 2 ++
fs/autofs/inode.c | 56 +++++++++++++++++-----------------------------
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 12 ++++++++--
fs/inode.c | 2 ++
fs/libfs.c | 14 +++++++++---
fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 10 ++++-----
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 8 +++++++
fs/stat.c | 6 ++++-
fs/xfs/xfs_inode.h | 8 +++++++
fs/xfs/xfs_ioctl.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++---------
fs/xfs/xfs_iops.c | 7 ++++++
include/linux/pagemap.h | 17 ++++++++++++++
include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 3 +++
lib/iov_iter.c | 2 +-
mm/page-writeback.c | 2 +-
15 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
