Print a warning when overlayfs copies up a file if the process that triggered the copy up has a R/O fd open to the lower file being copied up. This can help catch applications that do things like the following: fd1 = open("foo", O_RDONLY); fd2 = open("foo", O_RDWR); where they expect fd1 and fd2 to refer to the same file - which will no longer be the case post-copy up. With this patch, the following commands: bash 5</mnt/a/foo128 6<>/mnt/a/foo128 assuming /mnt/a/foo128 to be an un-copied up file on an overlay will produce the following warning in the kernel log: overlayfs: Copying up foo129, but open R/O on fd 5 which will cease to be coherent [pid=3818 bash] This is enabled by setting: /sys/module/overlay/parameters/check_copy_up to 1. The warnings are ratelimited and are also limited to one warning per file - assuming the copy up completes in each case. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index 84d693d37428..e1aef2ba2f08 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ * the Free Software Foundation. */ +#include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/fs.h> #include <linux/slab.h> #include <linux/file.h> @@ -16,10 +17,41 @@ #include <linux/uaccess.h> #include <linux/sched.h> #include <linux/namei.h> +#include <linux/fdtable.h> +#include <linux/ratelimit.h> #include "overlayfs.h" #define OVL_COPY_UP_CHUNK_SIZE (1 << 20) +static bool __read_mostly ovl_check_copy_up; +module_param_named(check_copy_up, ovl_check_copy_up, bool, + S_IWUSR | S_IRUGO); +MODULE_PARM_DESC(ovl_check_copy_up, + "Warn on copy-up when causing process also has a R/O fd open"); + +static int ovl_check_fd(const void *data, struct file *f, unsigned fd) +{ + const struct dentry *dentry = data; + + if (f->f_inode == d_inode(dentry)) + pr_warn_ratelimited("overlayfs: Warning: Copying up %pD, but open R/O on fd %u which will cease to be coherent [pid=%d %s]\n", + f, fd, current->pid, current->comm); + return 0; +} + +/* + * Check the fds open by this process and warn if something like the following + * scenario is about to occur: + * + * fd1 = open("foo", O_RDONLY); + * fd2 = open("foo", O_RDWR); + */ +static void ovl_do_check_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry) +{ + if (ovl_check_copy_up) + iterate_fd(current->files, 0, ovl_check_fd, dentry); +} + int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new) { ssize_t list_size, size; @@ -302,6 +334,8 @@ int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentry, if (WARN_ON(!workdir)) return -EROFS; + ovl_do_check_copy_up(lowerpath->dentry); + ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath); upperdir = parentpath.dentry; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html