On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 03:45:27PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30:08PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote: > >> Currently, only parameters that have the fs_parameter_spec 'type' set to > >> NULL are handled as 'flag' types. However, parameters that have the > >> 'fs_param_can_be_empty' flag set and their value is NULL should also be > >> handled as 'flag' type, as their type is set to 'fs_value_is_flag'. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@xxxxxxx> > >> --- > >> fs/fs_parser.c | 3 ++- > >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/fs/fs_parser.c b/fs/fs_parser.c > >> index edb3712dcfa5..53f6cb98a3e0 100644 > >> --- a/fs/fs_parser.c > >> +++ b/fs/fs_parser.c > >> @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ int __fs_parse(struct p_log *log, > >> /* Try to turn the type we were given into the type desired by the > >> * parameter and give an error if we can't. > >> */ > >> - if (is_flag(p)) { > >> + if (is_flag(p) || > >> + (!param->string && (p->flags & fs_param_can_be_empty))) { > >> if (param->type != fs_value_is_flag) > >> return inval_plog(log, "Unexpected value for '%s'", > >> param->key); > > > > If the parameter was derived from FSCONFIG_SET_STRING in fsconfig() then > > param->string is guaranteed to not be NULL. So really this is only > > about: > > > > FSCONFIG_SET_FD > > FSCONFIG_SET_BINARY > > FSCONFIG_SET_PATH > > FSCONFIG_SET_PATH_EMPTY > > > > and those values being used without a value. What filesystem does this? > > I don't see any. > > > > The tempting thing to do here is to to just remove fs_param_can_be_empty > > from every helper that isn't fs_param_is_string() until we actually have > > a filesystem that wants to use any of the above as flags. Will lose a > > lot of code that isn't currently used. > > Right, I find it quite confusing and I may be fixing the issue in the > wrong place. What I'm seeing with ext4 when I mount a filesystem using > the option '-o usrjquota' is that fs_parse() will get: > > * p->type is set to fs_param_is_string > ('p' is a struct fs_parameter_spec, ->type is a function) > * param->type is set to fs_value_is_flag > ('param' is a struct fs_parameter, ->type is an enum) > > This is because ext4 will use the __fsparam macro to set define a > fs_param_spec as a fs_param_is_string but will also set the > fs_param_can_be_empty; and the fsconfig() syscall will get that parameter > as a flag. That's why param->string will be NULL in this case. Thanks for the details. Let me see if I get this right. So you're saying that someone is doing: fsconfig(..., FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "usrjquota", NULL, 0); // [1] ? Is so that is a vital part of the explanation. So please put that in the commit message. Then ext4 defines: fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota), So [1] gets us: param->type == fs_value_is_flag param->string == NULL Now we enter into fs_parse() -> __fs_parse() -> fs_lookup_key() for @param and that does: bool want_flag = param->type == fs_value_is_flag; *negated = false; for (p = desc; p->name; p++) { if (strcmp(p->name, name) != 0) continue; if (likely(is_flag(p) == want_flag)) return p; other = p; } So we don't have a flag parameter defined so the only real match we get is @other for: fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota), What happens now is that you call p->type == fs_param_is_string() and that rejects it as bad parameter because param->type == fs_value_is_flag != fs_value_is_string as required. So you dont end up getting Opt_userjquota called with param->string NULL, right? So there's not NULL deref or anything, right? You just fail to set usrjquota. Ok, so I think the correct fix is to do something like the following in ext4: fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota), fs_param_flag ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota_flag), and then in the switch you can do: switch (opt) case Opt_usrjquota: // string thing case Opt_usrjquota_flag: // flag thing And I really think we should kill all empty handling for non-string types and only add that when there's a filesystem that actually needs it.