Hi Hugh
On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Hugh Dickins <hughd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Jun 2014, David Herrmann wrote:
>
>> If two processes share a common memory region, they usually want some
>> guarantees to allow safe access. This often includes:
>> - one side cannot overwrite data while the other reads it
>> - one side cannot shrink the buffer while the other accesses it
>> - one side cannot grow the buffer beyond previously set boundaries
>>
>> If there is a trust-relationship between both parties, there is no need
>> for policy enforcement. However, if there's no trust relationship (eg.,
>> for general-purpose IPC) sharing memory-regions is highly fragile and
>> often not possible without local copies. Look at the following two
>> use-cases:
>> 1) A graphics client wants to share its rendering-buffer with a
>> graphics-server. The memory-region is allocated by the client for
>> read/write access and a second FD is passed to the server. While
>> scanning out from the memory region, the server has no guarantee that
>> the client doesn't shrink the buffer at any time, requiring rather
>> cumbersome SIGBUS handling.
>> 2) A process wants to perform an RPC on another process. To avoid huge
>> bandwidth consumption, zero-copy is preferred. After a message is
>> assembled in-memory and a FD is passed to the remote side, both sides
>> want to be sure that neither modifies this shared copy, anymore. The
>> source may have put sensible data into the message without a separate
>> copy and the target may want to parse the message inline, to avoid a
>> local copy.
>>
>> While SIGBUS handling, POSIX mandatory locking and MAP_DENYWRITE provide
>> ways to achieve most of this, the first one is unproportionally ugly to
>> use in libraries and the latter two are broken/racy or even disabled due
>> to denial of service attacks.
>>
>> This patch introduces the concept of SEALING. If you seal a file, a
>> specific set of operations is blocked on that file forever.
>> Unlike locks, seals can only be set, never removed. Hence, once you
>> verified a specific set of seals is set, you're guaranteed that no-one can
>> perform the blocked operations on this file, anymore.
>>
>> An initial set of SEALS is introduced by this patch:
>> - SHRINK: If SEAL_SHRINK is set, the file in question cannot be reduced
>> in size. This affects ftruncate() and open(O_TRUNC).
>> - GROW: If SEAL_GROW is set, the file in question cannot be increased
>> in size. This affects ftruncate(), fallocate() and write().
>> - WRITE: If SEAL_WRITE is set, no write operations (besides resizing)
>> are possible. This affects fallocate(PUNCH_HOLE), mmap() and
>> write().
>> - SEAL: If SEAL_SEAL is set, no further seals can be added to a file.
>> This basically prevents the F_ADD_SEAL operation on a file and
>> can be set to prevent others from adding further seals that you
>> don't want.
>>
>> The described use-cases can easily use these seals to provide safe use
>> without any trust-relationship:
>> 1) The graphics server can verify that a passed file-descriptor has
>> SEAL_SHRINK set. This allows safe scanout, while the client is
>> allowed to increase buffer size for window-resizing on-the-fly.
>> Concurrent writes are explicitly allowed.
>> 2) For general-purpose IPC, both processes can verify that SEAL_SHRINK,
>> SEAL_GROW and SEAL_WRITE are set. This guarantees that neither
>> process can modify the data while the other side parses it.
>> Furthermore, it guarantees that even with writable FDs passed to the
>> peer, it cannot increase the size to hit memory-limits of the source
>> process (in case the file-storage is accounted to the source).
>>
>> The new API is an extension to fcntl(), adding two new commands:
>> F_GET_SEALS: Return a bitset describing the seals on the file. This
>> can be called on any FD if the underlying file supports
>> sealing.
>> F_ADD_SEALS: Change the seals of a given file. This requires WRITE
>> access to the file and F_SEAL_SEAL may not already be set.
>> Furthermore, the underlying file must support sealing and
>> there may not be any existing shared mapping of that file.
>> Otherwise, EBADF/EPERM is returned.
>> The given seals are _added_ to the existing set of seals
>> on the file. You cannot remove seals again.
>>
>> The fcntl() handler is currently specific to shmem and disabled on all
>> files. A file needs to explicitly support sealing for this interface to
>> work. A separate syscall is added in a follow-up, which creates files that
>> support sealing. There is no intention to support this on other
>> file-systems. Semantics are unclear for non-volatile files and we lack any
>> use-case right now. Therefore, the implementation is specific to shmem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Looks pretty good to me, minor comments below.
>
>> ---
>> fs/fcntl.c | 5 ++
>> include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 17 ++++
>> include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h | 15 ++++
>> mm/shmem.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>> 4 files changed, 223 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
>> index 72c82f6..22d1c3d 100644
>> --- a/fs/fcntl.c
>> +++ b/fs/fcntl.c
>> @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
>> #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
>> #include <linux/pid_namespace.h>
>> #include <linux/user_namespace.h>
>> +#include <linux/shmem_fs.h>
>>
>> #include <asm/poll.h>
>> #include <asm/siginfo.h>
>> @@ -336,6 +337,10 @@ static long do_fcntl(int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg,
>> case F_GETPIPE_SZ:
>> err = pipe_fcntl(filp, cmd, arg);
>> break;
>> + case F_ADD_SEALS:
>> + case F_GET_SEALS:
>> + err = shmem_fcntl(filp, cmd, arg);
>> + break;
>> default:
>> break;
>> }
>> diff --git a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
>> index 4d1771c..50777b5 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/shmem_fs.h
>> @@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
>> #ifndef __SHMEM_FS_H
>> #define __SHMEM_FS_H
>>
>> +#include <linux/file.h>
>> #include <linux/swap.h>
>> #include <linux/mempolicy.h>
>> #include <linux/pagemap.h>
>> @@ -11,6 +12,7 @@
>>
>> struct shmem_inode_info {
>> spinlock_t lock;
>> + unsigned int seals; /* shmem seals */
>> unsigned long flags;
>> unsigned long alloced; /* data pages alloced to file */
>> union {
>> @@ -65,4 +67,19 @@ static inline struct page *shmem_read_mapping_page(
>> mapping_gfp_mask(mapping));
>> }
>>
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_TMPFS
>> +
>> +extern int shmem_add_seals(struct file *file, unsigned int seals);
>> +extern int shmem_get_seals(struct file *file);
>> +extern long shmem_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
>> +
>> +#else
>> +
>> +static inline long shmem_fcntl(struct file *f, unsigned int c, unsigned long a)
>> +{
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +}
>> +
>> +#endif
>> +
>> #endif
>> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> index 074b886..beed138 100644
>> --- a/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/fcntl.h
>> @@ -28,6 +28,21 @@
>> #define F_GETPIPE_SZ (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 8)
>>
>> /*
>> + * Set/Get seals
>> + */
>> +#define F_ADD_SEALS (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 9)
>> +#define F_GET_SEALS (F_LINUX_SPECIFIC_BASE + 10)
>> +
>> +/*
>> + * Types of seals
>> + */
>> +#define F_SEAL_SEAL 0x0001 /* prevent further seals from being set */
>> +#define F_SEAL_SHRINK 0x0002 /* prevent file from shrinking */
>> +#define F_SEAL_GROW 0x0004 /* prevent file from growing */
>> +#define F_SEAL_WRITE 0x0008 /* prevent writes */
>> +/* (1U << 31) is reserved for signed error codes */
>> +
>> +/*
>> * Types of directory notifications that may be requested.
>> */
>> #define DN_ACCESS 0x00000001 /* File accessed */
>> diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
>> index f484c27..1438b3e 100644
>> --- a/mm/shmem.c
>> +++ b/mm/shmem.c
>> @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *shm_mnt;
>> #include <linux/highmem.h>
>> #include <linux/seq_file.h>
>> #include <linux/magic.h>
>> +#include <linux/fcntl.h>
>>
>> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
>> #include <asm/pgtable.h>
>> @@ -531,16 +532,23 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_truncate_range);
>> static int shmem_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
>> {
>> struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
>> + struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
>> + loff_t oldsize = inode->i_size;
>> + loff_t newsize = attr->ia_size;
>> int error;
>>
>> error = inode_change_ok(inode, attr);
>> if (error)
>> return error;
>>
>> - if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) {
>> - loff_t oldsize = inode->i_size;
>> - loff_t newsize = attr->ia_size;
>> + /* protected by i_mutex */
>> + if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) {
>> + if ((newsize < oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_SHRINK)) ||
>> + (newsize > oldsize && (info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW)))
>> + return -EPERM;
>> + }
>
> Not important but...
> I'd have thought all that was better inside the S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
> (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) block. Less unnecessary change above, and
> more efficient for non-size attrs. You cannot seal anything but a regular
> file anyway, right?
You're right. Fixed.
>>
>> + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE)) {
>> if (newsize != oldsize) {
>> i_size_write(inode, newsize);
>> inode->i_ctime = inode->i_mtime = CURRENT_TIME;
>> @@ -1315,6 +1323,7 @@ static struct inode *shmem_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode
>> info = SHMEM_I(inode);
>> memset(info, 0, (char *)inode - (char *)info);
>> spin_lock_init(&info->lock);
>> + info->seals = F_SEAL_SEAL;
>> info->flags = flags & VM_NORESERVE;
>> INIT_LIST_HEAD(&info->swaplist);
>> simple_xattrs_init(&info->xattrs);
>> @@ -1374,7 +1383,15 @@ shmem_write_begin(struct file *file, struct address_space *mapping,
>> {
>> int ret;
>> struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
>> + struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
>> pgoff_t index = pos >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>> +
>> + /* i_mutex is held by caller */
>> + if (info->seals & F_SEAL_WRITE)
>> + return -EPERM;
>> + if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW) && pos + len > inode->i_size)
>> + return -EPERM;
>
> I think this is your only addition which comes in a hot path.
> Mel has been shaving nanoseconds off this path recently: you're not
> introducing any atomic ops here, good, but I wonder if it would make any
> measurable difference to include this pair of tests inside a single
> "if (unlikely(info->seals)) {". Maybe not, but it wouldn't hurt.
It doesn't hurt adding the unlikely() protection, either. Fixed.
>> +
>> ret = shmem_getpage(inode, index, pagep, SGP_WRITE, NULL);
>> if (ret == 0 && *pagep)
>> init_page_accessed(*pagep);
>> @@ -1715,11 +1732,166 @@ static loff_t shmem_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
>> return offset;
>> }
>>
>> +/*
>> + * Setting SEAL_WRITE requires us to verify there's no pending writer. However,
>> + * via get_user_pages(), drivers might have some pending I/O without any active
>> + * user-space mappings (eg., direct-IO, AIO). Therefore, we look at all pages
>> + * and see whether it has an elevated ref-count. If so, we abort.
>> + * The caller must guarantee that no new user will acquire writable references
>> + * to those pages to avoid races.
>> + */
>> +static int shmem_test_for_pins(struct address_space *mapping)
>> +{
>> + struct radix_tree_iter iter;
>> + void **slot;
>> + pgoff_t start;
>> + struct page *page;
>> + int error;
>> +
>> + /* flush additional refs in lru_add early */
>> + lru_add_drain_all();
>> +
>> + error = 0;
>> + start = 0;
>> + rcu_read_lock();
>> +
>> +restart:
>> + radix_tree_for_each_slot(slot, &mapping->page_tree, &iter, start) {
>> + page = radix_tree_deref_slot(slot);
>> + if (!page || radix_tree_exception(page)) {
>> + if (radix_tree_deref_retry(page))
>> + goto restart;
>> + } else if (page_count(page) - page_mapcount(page) > 1) {
>> + error = -EBUSY;
>> + break;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if (need_resched()) {
>> + cond_resched_rcu();
>> + start = iter.index + 1;
>> + goto restart;
>> + }
>> + }
>> + rcu_read_unlock();
>> +
>> + return error;
>> +}
>
> Please leave shmem_test_for_pins() (and the comment above it)
> out of this particular patch.
>
> The implementation here satisfies none of us, make it harder to
> figure out the patch improving it later, and distracts from the basic
> sealing interface and functionality that you introduce in this patch.
>
> A brief comment on the issue instead - "But what if a page of the
> object is pinned for pending I/O? See later patch" - maybe, but on the
> whole I think it's better to raise and settle the issue in later patch.
Removed and replaced by a dummy:
int shmem_wait_for_pins(struct address_space *mapping)
{
return 0;
}
>> +
>> +#define F_ALL_SEALS (F_SEAL_SEAL | \
>> + F_SEAL_SHRINK | \
>> + F_SEAL_GROW | \
>> + F_SEAL_WRITE)
>> +
>> +int shmem_add_seals(struct file *file, unsigned int seals)
>> +{
>> + struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
>> + struct inode *inode = dentry->d_inode;
>
> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file), and forget about dentry?
Fixed.
>> + struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
>> + int error;
>> +
>> + /*
>> + * SEALING
>> + * Sealing allows multiple parties to share a shmem-file but restrict
>> + * access to a specific subset of file operations. Seals can only be
>> + * added, but never removed. This way, mutually untrusted parties can
>> + * share common memory regions with a well-defined policy. A malicious
>> + * peer can thus never perform unwanted operations on a shared object.
>> + *
>> + * Seals are only supported on special shmem-files and always affect
>> + * the whole underlying inode. Once a seal is set, it may prevent some
>> + * kinds of access to the file. Currently, the following seals are
>> + * defined:
>> + * SEAL_SEAL: Prevent further seals from being set on this file
>> + * SEAL_SHRINK: Prevent the file from shrinking
>> + * SEAL_GROW: Prevent the file from growing
>> + * SEAL_WRITE: Prevent write access to the file
>> + *
>> + * As we don't require any trust relationship between two parties, we
>> + * must prevent seals from being removed. Therefore, sealing a file
>> + * only adds a given set of seals to the file, it never touches
>> + * existing seals. Furthermore, the "setting seals"-operation can be
>> + * sealed itself, which basically prevents any further seal from being
>> + * added.
>> + *
>> + * Semantics of sealing are only defined on volatile files. Only
>> + * anonymous shmem files support sealing. More importantly, seals are
>> + * never written to disk. Therefore, there's no plan to support it on
>> + * other file types.
>> + */
>> +
>> + if (file->f_op != &shmem_file_operations)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> + if (!(file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE))
>> + return -EINVAL;
>
> I would expect -EBADF there (like when you write to read-only fd).
> Though I was okay with the -EPERM you had the previous version.
Nice catch. Replaced by EPERM again.
>> + if (seals & ~(unsigned int)F_ALL_SEALS)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>> +
>> + mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>> +
>> + if (info->seals & F_SEAL_SEAL) {
>
> I notice this is inconsistent with F_SEAL_WRITE just below:
> we're allowed to SEAL_WRITE what's already SEAL_WRITEd,
> but not to SEAL_SEAL what's already SEAL_SEALed.
> Oh, never mind, I can see that makes some sense.
>
>> + error = -EPERM;
>> + goto unlock;
>> + }
>> +
>> + if ((seals & F_SEAL_WRITE) && !(info->seals & F_SEAL_WRITE)) {
>> + error = mapping_deny_writable(file->f_mapping);
>> + if (error)
>
> Which would be -EBUSY, yes, that seems okay.
>
> And with your atomic i_mmap_writable changes in 1/7, and the i_mutex
> here, the locking is now solid, and accomplished simply: nice.
>
>> + goto unlock;
>> +
>> + error = shmem_test_for_pins(file->f_mapping);
>> + if (error) {
>> + mapping_allow_writable(file->f_mapping);
>> + goto unlock;
>> + }
>
> Right, although I ask you to remove shmem_test_for_pins() from this
> patch, I can see that you might want to include a "return 0" stub for
> shmem_wait_for_pins() in this patch, just so that this can appear here
> now, and we consider the non-atomicity of it. Yes, I agree this is
> how it should proceed: first deny, then re-allow if waiting fails.
I replaced shmem_test_for_pins() with shmem_wait_for_pins() and kept
the code as is.
>> + }
>> +
>> + info->seals |= seals;
>> + error = 0;
>> +
>> +unlock:
>> + mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
>> + return error;
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_add_seals);
>> +
>> +int shmem_get_seals(struct file *file)
>> +{
>> + if (file->f_op != &shmem_file_operations)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>
> That's fine, though it is worth considering whether return 0
> might be preferable. No, I suppose this is easier, fits with
> shmem_fcntl() just returning -EINVAL when !TMPFS or !SHMEM.
Agreed.
>> +
>> + return SHMEM_I(file_inode(file))->seals & F_ALL_SEALS;
>
> & F_ALL_SEALS? Okay, that may be some kind of future proofing that you
> have in mind; but it may just be a leftover from when you were using bit
> 31 for internal use.
Nice catch. It's indeed a left-over. I removed it.
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shmem_get_seals);
>> +
>> +long shmem_fcntl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>> +{
>> + long error;
>> +
>> + switch (cmd) {
>> + case F_ADD_SEALS:
>> + /* disallow upper 32bit */
>> + if (arg >> 32)
>> + return -EINVAL;
>
> That is worth checking, but gives
> mm/shmem.c:1948:3: warning: right shift count >= width of type
> on a 32-bit build. I expect there's an accepted way to do it;
> I've used "arg > UINT_MAX" myself in some places.
The zero-test bot already reported this and I fixed it with a u64
cast. Your UINT_MAX test is definitely nicer so I changed it again.
Thanks!
David
>> +
>> + error = shmem_add_seals(file, arg);
>> + break;
>> + case F_GET_SEALS:
>> + error = shmem_get_seals(file);
>> + break;
>> + default:
>> + error = -EINVAL;
>> + break;
>> + }
>> +
>> + return error;
>> +}
>> +
>> static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
>> loff_t len)
>> {
>> struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
>> struct shmem_sb_info *sbinfo = SHMEM_SB(inode->i_sb);
>> + struct shmem_inode_info *info = SHMEM_I(inode);
>> struct shmem_falloc shmem_falloc;
>> pgoff_t start, index, end;
>> int error;
>> @@ -1731,6 +1903,12 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
>> loff_t unmap_start = round_up(offset, PAGE_SIZE);
>> loff_t unmap_end = round_down(offset + len, PAGE_SIZE) - 1;
>>
>> + /* protected by i_mutex */
>> + if (info->seals & F_SEAL_WRITE) {
>> + error = -EPERM;
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>> if ((u64)unmap_end > (u64)unmap_start)
>> unmap_mapping_range(mapping, unmap_start,
>> 1 + unmap_end - unmap_start, 0);
>> @@ -1745,6 +1923,11 @@ static long shmem_fallocate(struct file *file, int mode, loff_t offset,
>> if (error)
>> goto out;
>>
>> + if ((info->seals & F_SEAL_GROW) && offset + len > inode->i_size) {
>> + error = -EPERM;
>> + goto out;
>> + }
>> +
>> start = offset >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>> end = (offset + len + PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1) >> PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT;
>> /* Try to avoid a swapstorm if len is impossible to satisfy */
>> --
>> 2.0.0
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