On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 04:50:24PM +0000, Roberto Sassu wrote: > > From: Al Viro [mailto:viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Al Viro > > Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2024 6:47 AM > > On Sun, Mar 24, 2024 at 12:00:15AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > > > Anyone else seeing this kernel crash in do_mknodat (I see it with a > > > simple "mkfifo" on smb3 mount). I started seeing this in 6.9-rc (did > > > not see it in 6.8). I did not see it with the 3/12/23 mainline > > > (early in the 6.9-rc merge Window) but I do see it in the 3/22 build > > > so it looks like the regression was introduced by: > > > > FWIW, successful ->mknod() is allowed to return 0 and unhash > > dentry, rather than bothering with lookups. So commit in question > > is bogus - lack of error does *NOT* mean that you have struct inode > > existing, let alone attached to dentry. That kind of behaviour > > used to be common for network filesystems more than just for ->mknod(), > > the theory being "if somebody wants to look at it, they can bloody > > well pay the cost of lookup after dcache miss". > > > > Said that, the language in D/f/vfs.rst is vague as hell and is very easy > > to misread in direction of "you must instantiate". > > > > Thankfully, there's no counterpart with mkdir - *there* it's not just > > possible, it's inevitable in some cases for e.g. nfs. > > > > What the hell is that hook doing in non-S_IFREG cases, anyway? Move it > > up and be done with it... > > Hi Al > > thanks for the patch. Indeed, it was like that before, when instead of > an LSM hook there was an IMA call. Could you please start adding lore links into your commit messages for all messages that are sent to a mailing list? It really makes tracking down the original thread a lot easier. > However, I thought, since we were promoting it as an LSM hook, > we should be as generic possible, and support more usages than > what was needed for IMA. I'm a bit confused now why this is taking a dentry. Nothing in IMA or EVM cares about the dentry for these hooks so it really should have take an inode in the first place? And one minor other question I just realized. Why are some of the new hooks called security_path_post_mknod() when they aren't actually taking a path in contrast to say security_path_{chown,chmod,mknod,chroot,truncate}() that do.
