Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good".
Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and
memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem.
Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be
able to deal with things like
a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem)
-> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient.
b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched
-> mem_pfn_is_ram()
Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might
fault/crash the machine.
Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1],
after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion.
CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by
mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled
for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least
starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from
15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well.
1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled
basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of
/dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.".
RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to
serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers
to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching"
2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read
kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to
deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned
pages, though)
3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a
better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot
yourself into the foot.
4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems
to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes,
/proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older
kernels can be used.
5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there.
Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better
suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's
just remove it.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/
[2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled
[4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/
[5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>
Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com>
Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: James Troup <james.troup@canonical.com>
Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com>
Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com>
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Cc: Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We no longer track anything in nrexceptional, so remove it, saving 8 bytes
per inode.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201026151849.24232-5-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Patch series "Improve IOCB_NOWAIT O_DIRECT reads", v3.
An internal workload complained because it was using too much CPU, and
when I took a look, we had a lot of io_uring workers going to town.
For an async buffered read like workload, I am normally expecting _zero_
offloads to a worker thread, but this one had tons of them. I'd drop
caches and things would look good again, but then a minute later we'd
regress back to using workers. Turns out that every minute something
was reading parts of the device, which would add page cache for that
inode. I put patches like these in for our kernel, and the problem was
solved.
Don't -EAGAIN IOCB_NOWAIT dio reads just because we have page cache
entries for the given range. This causes unnecessary work from the
callers side, when the IO could have been issued totally fine without
blocking on writeback when there is none.
This patch (of 3):
For O_DIRECT reads/writes, we check if we need to issue a call to
filemap_write_and_wait_range() to issue and/or wait for writeback for any
page in the given range. The existing mechanism just checks for a page in
the range, which is suboptimal for IOCB_NOWAIT as we'll fallback to the
slow path (and needing retry) if there's just a clean page cache page in
the range.
Provide filemap_range_needs_writeback() which tries a little harder to
check if we actually need to issue and/or wait for writeback in the range.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224164455.1096727-1-axboe@kernel.dk
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210224164455.1096727-2-axboe@kernel.dk
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs
Pull network filesystem helper library updates from David Howells:
"Here's a set of patches for 5.13 to begin the process of overhauling
the local caching API for network filesystems. This set consists of
two parts:
(1) Add a helper library to handle the new VM readahead interface.
This is intended to be used unconditionally by the filesystem
(whether or not caching is enabled) and provides a common
framework for doing caching, transparent huge pages and, in the
future, possibly fscrypt and read bandwidth maximisation. It also
allows the netfs and the cache to align, expand and slice up a
read request from the VM in various ways; the netfs need only
provide a function to read a stretch of data to the pagecache and
the helper takes care of the rest.
(2) Add an alternative fscache/cachfiles I/O API that uses the kiocb
facility to do async DIO to transfer data to/from the netfs's
pages, rather than using readpage with wait queue snooping on one
side and vfs_write() on the other. It also uses less memory, since
it doesn't do buffered I/O on the backing file.
Note that this uses SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA to locate the data
available to be read from the cache. Whilst this is an improvement
from the bmap interface, it still has a problem with regard to a
modern extent-based filesystem inserting or removing bridging
blocks of zeros. Fixing that requires a much greater overhaul.
This is a step towards overhauling the fscache API. The change is
opt-in on the part of the network filesystem. A netfs should not try
to mix the old and the new API because of conflicting ways of handling
pages and the PG_fscache page flag and because it would be mixing DIO
with buffered I/O. Further, the helper library can't be used with the
old API.
This does not change any of the fscache cookie handling APIs or the
way invalidation is done at this time.
In the near term, I intend to deprecate and remove the old I/O API
(fscache_allocate_page{,s}(), fscache_read_or_alloc_page{,s}(),
fscache_write_page() and fscache_uncache_page()) and eventually
replace most of fscache/cachefiles with something simpler and easier
to follow.
This patchset contains the following parts:
- Some helper patches, including provision of an ITER_XARRAY iov
iterator and a function to do readahead expansion.
- Patches to add the netfs helper library.
- A patch to add the fscache/cachefiles kiocb API.
- A pair of patches to fix some review issues in the ITER_XARRAY and
read helpers as spotted by Al and Willy.
Jeff Layton has patches to add support in Ceph for this that he
intends for this merge window. I have a set of patches to support AFS
that I will post a separate pull request for.
With this, AFS without a cache passes all expected xfstests; with a
cache, there's an extra failure, but that's also there before these
patches. Fixing that probably requires a greater overhaul. Ceph also
passes the expected tests.
I also have patches in a separate branch to tidy up the handling of
PG_fscache/PG_private_2 and their contribution to page refcounting in
the core kernel here, but I haven't included them in this set and will
route them separately"
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/3779937.1619478404@warthog.procyon.org.uk/
* tag 'netfs-lib-20210426' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs:
netfs: Miscellaneous fixes
iov_iter: Four fixes for ITER_XARRAY
fscache, cachefiles: Add alternate API to use kiocb for read/write to cache
netfs: Add a tracepoint to log failures that would be otherwise unseen
netfs: Define an interface to talk to a cache
netfs: Add write_begin helper
netfs: Gather stats
netfs: Add tracepoints
netfs: Provide readahead and readpage netfs helpers
netfs, mm: Add set/end/wait_on_page_fscache() aliases
netfs, mm: Move PG_fscache helper funcs to linux/netfs.h
netfs: Documentation for helper library
netfs: Make a netfs helper module
mm: Implement readahead_control pageset expansion
mm/readahead: Handle ractl nr_pages being modified
fs: Document file_ra_state
mm/filemap: Pass the file_ra_state in the ractl
mm: Add set/end/wait functions for PG_private_2
iov_iter: Add ITER_XARRAY
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Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.helpers.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull fs mapping helper updates from Christian Brauner:
"This adds kernel-doc to all new idmapping helpers and improves their
naming which was triggered by a discussion with some fs developers.
Some of the names are based on suggestions by Vivek and Al.
Also remove the open-coded permission checking in a few places with
simple helpers. Overall this should lead to more clarity and make it
easier to maintain"
* tag 'fs.idmapped.helpers.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
fs: introduce two inode i_{u,g}id initialization helpers
fs: introduce fsuidgid_has_mapping() helper
fs: document and rename fsid helpers
fs: document mapping helpers
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Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.docs.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull fs helper kernel-doc updates from Christian Brauner:
"In the last cycles we forgot to update the kernel-docs in some places
that were changed during the idmapped mount work. Lukas and Randy took
the chance to not just fixup those places but also fixup and expand
kernel-docs for some additional helpers.
No functional changes"
* tag 'fs.idmapped.docs.v5.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
fs: update kernel-doc for vfs_rename()
fs: turn some comments into kernel-doc
xattr: fix kernel-doc for mnt_userns and vfs xattr helpers
namei: fix kernel-doc for struct renamedata and more
libfs: fix kernel-doc for mnt_userns
Pull fileattr conversion updates from Miklos Szeredi via Al Viro:
"This splits the handling of FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS from ->ioctl() into a
separate method.
The interface is reasonably uniform across the filesystems that
support it and gives nice boilerplate removal"
* 'miklos.fileattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (23 commits)
ovl: remove unneeded ioctls
fuse: convert to fileattr
fuse: add internal open/release helpers
fuse: unsigned open flags
fuse: move ioctl to separate source file
vfs: remove unused ioctl helpers
ubifs: convert to fileattr
reiserfs: convert to fileattr
ocfs2: convert to fileattr
nilfs2: convert to fileattr
jfs: convert to fileattr
hfsplus: convert to fileattr
efivars: convert to fileattr
xfs: convert to fileattr
orangefs: convert to fileattr
gfs2: convert to fileattr
f2fs: convert to fileattr
ext4: convert to fileattr
ext2: convert to fileattr
btrfs: convert to fileattr
...
Remove vfs_ioc_setflags_prepare(), vfs_ioc_fssetxattr_check() and
simple_fill_fsxattr(), which are no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
There's a substantial amount of boilerplate in filesystems handling
FS_IOC_[GS]ETFLAGS/ FS_IOC_FS[GS]ETXATTR ioctls.
Also due to userspace buffers being involved in the ioctl API this is
difficult to stack, as shown by overlayfs issues related to these ioctls.
Introduce a new internal API named "fileattr" (fsxattr can be confused with
xattr, xflags is inappropriate, since this is more than just flags).
There's significant overlap between flags and xflags and this API handles
the conversions automatically, so filesystems may choose which one to use.
In ->fileattr_get() a hint is provided to the filesystem whether flags or
xattr are being requested by userspace, but in this series this hint is
ignored by all filesystems, since generating all the attributes is cheap.
If a filesystem doesn't implemement the fileattr API, just fall back to
f_op->ioctl(). When all filesystems are converted, the fallback can be
removed.
32bit compat ioctls are now handled by the generic code as well.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Commit 9fe6145097 ("namei: introduce struct renamedata") introduces a
new struct for vfs_rename() and makes the vfs_rename() kernel-doc argument
description out of sync.
Move the description of arguments for vfs_rename() to a new kernel-doc for
the struct renamedata to make these descriptions checkable against the
actual implementation.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204180059.28360-3-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
While reviewing ./include/linux/fs.h, I noticed that three comments can
actually be turned into kernel-doc comments. This allows to check the
consistency between the descriptions and the functions' signatures in
case they may change in the future.
A quick validation with the consistency check:
./scripts/kernel-doc -none include/linux/fs.h
currently reports no issues in this file.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210204180059.28360-2-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Give filesystem two little helpers that do the right thing when
initializing the i_uid and i_gid fields on idmapped and non-idmapped
mounts. Filesystems shouldn't have to be concerned with too many
details.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320122623.599086-5-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Inspired-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Don't open-code the checks and instead move them into a clean little
helper we can call. This also reduces the risk that if we ever change
something we forget to change all locations.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320122623.599086-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Inspired-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Vivek pointed out that the fs{g,u}id_into_mnt() naming scheme can be
misleading as it could be understood as implying they do the exact same
thing as i_{g,u}id_into_mnt(). The original motivation for this naming
scheme was to signal to callers that the helpers will always take care
to map the k{g,u}id such that the ownership is expressed in terms of the
mnt_users.
Get rid of the confusion by renaming those helpers to something more
sensible. Al suggested mapped_fs{g,u}id() which seems a really good fit.
Usually filesystems don't need to bother with these helpers directly
only in some cases where they allocate objects that carry {g,u}ids which
are either filesystem specific (e.g. xfs quota objects) or don't have a
clean set of helpers as inodes have.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210320122623.599086-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Inspired-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
inode_wrong_type(inode, mode) returns true if setting inode->i_mode
to given value would've changed the inode type. We have enough of
those checks open-coded to make a helper worthwhile.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Rename generic_file_buffered_read to match the naming of filemap_fault,
also update the written parameter to a more descriptive name and improve
the kerneldoc comment.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210122160140.223228-18-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Merge tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull idmapped mounts from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces idmapped mounts which has been in the making for some
time. Simply put, different mounts can expose the same file or
directory with different ownership. This initial implementation comes
with ports for fat, ext4 and with Christoph's port for xfs with more
filesystems being actively worked on by independent people and
maintainers.
Idmapping mounts handle a wide range of long standing use-cases. Here
are just a few:
- Idmapped mounts make it possible to easily share files between
multiple users or multiple machines especially in complex
scenarios. For example, idmapped mounts will be used in the
implementation of portable home directories in
systemd-homed.service(8) where they allow users to move their home
directory to an external storage device and use it on multiple
computers where they are assigned different uids and gids. This
effectively makes it possible to assign random uids and gids at
login time.
- It is possible to share files from the host with unprivileged
containers without having to change ownership permanently through
chown(2).
- It is possible to idmap a container's rootfs and without having to
mangle every file. For example, Chromebooks use it to share the
user's Download folder with their unprivileged containers in their
Linux subsystem.
- It is possible to share files between containers with
non-overlapping idmappings.
- Filesystem that lack a proper concept of ownership such as fat can
use idmapped mounts to implement discretionary access (DAC)
permission checking.
- They allow users to efficiently changing ownership on a per-mount
basis without having to (recursively) chown(2) all files. In
contrast to chown (2) changing ownership of large sets of files is
instantenous with idmapped mounts. This is especially useful when
ownership of a whole root filesystem of a virtual machine or
container is changed. With idmapped mounts a single syscall
mount_setattr syscall will be sufficient to change the ownership of
all files.
- Idmapped mounts always take the current ownership into account as
idmappings specify what a given uid or gid is supposed to be mapped
to. This contrasts with the chown(2) syscall which cannot by itself
take the current ownership of the files it changes into account. It
simply changes the ownership to the specified uid and gid. This is
especially problematic when recursively chown(2)ing a large set of
files which is commong with the aforementioned portable home
directory and container and vm scenario.
- Idmapped mounts allow to change ownership locally, restricting it
to specific mounts, and temporarily as the ownership changes only
apply as long as the mount exists.
Several userspace projects have either already put up patches and
pull-requests for this feature or will do so should you decide to pull
this:
- systemd: In a wide variety of scenarios but especially right away
in their implementation of portable home directories.
https://systemd.io/HOME_DIRECTORY/
- container runtimes: containerd, runC, LXD:To share data between
host and unprivileged containers, unprivileged and privileged
containers, etc. The pull request for idmapped mounts support in
containerd, the default Kubernetes runtime is already up for quite
a while now: https://github.com/containerd/containerd/pull/4734
- The virtio-fs developers and several users have expressed interest
in using this feature with virtual machines once virtio-fs is
ported.
- ChromeOS: Sharing host-directories with unprivileged containers.
I've tightly synced with all those projects and all of those listed
here have also expressed their need/desire for this feature on the
mailing list. For more info on how people use this there's a bunch of
talks about this too. Here's just two recent ones:
https://www.cncf.io/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Rootless-Containers-in-Gitpod.pdfhttps://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/containers_idmap/
This comes with an extensive xfstests suite covering both ext4 and
xfs:
https://git.kernel.org/brauner/xfstests-dev/h/idmapped_mounts
It covers truncation, creation, opening, xattrs, vfscaps, setid
execution, setgid inheritance and more both with idmapped and
non-idmapped mounts. It already helped to discover an unrelated xfs
setgid inheritance bug which has since been fixed in mainline. It will
be sent for inclusion with the xfstests project should you decide to
merge this.
In order to support per-mount idmappings vfsmounts are marked with
user namespaces. The idmapping of the user namespace will be used to
map the ids of vfs objects when they are accessed through that mount.
By default all vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace.
The initial user namespace is used to indicate that a mount is not
idmapped. All operations behave as before and this is verified in the
testsuite.
Based on prior discussions we want to attach the whole user namespace
and not just a dedicated idmapping struct. This allows us to reuse all
the helpers that already exist for dealing with idmappings instead of
introducing a whole new range of helpers. In addition, if we decide in
the future that we are confident enough to enable unprivileged users
to setup idmapped mounts the permission checking can take into account
whether the caller is privileged in the user namespace the mount is
currently marked with.
The user namespace the mount will be marked with can be specified by
passing a file descriptor refering to the user namespace as an
argument to the new mount_setattr() syscall together with the new
MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP flag. The system call follows the openat2() pattern
of extensibility.
The following conditions must be met in order to create an idmapped
mount:
- The caller must currently have the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability in the
user namespace the underlying filesystem has been mounted in.
- The underlying filesystem must support idmapped mounts.
- The mount must not already be idmapped. This also implies that the
idmapping of a mount cannot be altered once it has been idmapped.
- The mount must be a detached/anonymous mount, i.e. it must have
been created by calling open_tree() with the OPEN_TREE_CLONE flag
and it must not already have been visible in the filesystem.
The last two points guarantee easier semantics for userspace and the
kernel and make the implementation significantly simpler.
By default vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace and no
behavioral or performance changes are observed.
The manpage with a detailed description can be found here:
1d7b902e28
In order to support idmapped mounts, filesystems need to be changed
and mark themselves with the FS_ALLOW_IDMAP flag in fs_flags. The
patches to convert individual filesystem are not very large or
complicated overall as can be seen from the included fat, ext4, and
xfs ports. Patches for other filesystems are actively worked on and
will be sent out separately. The xfstestsuite can be used to verify
that port has been done correctly.
The mount_setattr() syscall is motivated independent of the idmapped
mounts patches and it's been around since July 2019. One of the most
valuable features of the new mount api is the ability to perform
mounts based on file descriptors only.
Together with the lookup restrictions available in the openat2()
RESOLVE_* flag namespace which we added in v5.6 this is the first time
we are close to hardened and race-free (e.g. symlinks) mounting and
path resolution.
While userspace has started porting to the new mount api to mount
proper filesystems and create new bind-mounts it is currently not
possible to change mount options of an already existing bind mount in
the new mount api since the mount_setattr() syscall is missing.
With the addition of the mount_setattr() syscall we remove this last
restriction and userspace can now fully port to the new mount api,
covering every use-case the old mount api could. We also add the
crucial ability to recursively change mount options for a whole mount
tree, both removing and adding mount options at the same time. This
syscall has been requested multiple times by various people and
projects.
There is a simple tool available at
https://github.com/brauner/mount-idmapped
that allows to create idmapped mounts so people can play with this
patch series. I'll add support for the regular mount binary should you
decide to pull this in the following weeks:
Here's an example to a simple idmapped mount of another user's home
directory:
u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo ./mount --idmap both:1000:1001:1 /home/ubuntu/ /mnt
u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 28 22:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 28 04:00 ..
-rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw------- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo
u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 2 u1001 u1001 4096 Oct 28 22:07 .
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Oct 28 22:01 ..
-rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 3154 Oct 28 22:12 .bash_history
-rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 220 Feb 25 2020 .bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 3771 Feb 25 2020 .bashrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 807 Feb 25 2020 .profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 16 16:11 .sudo_as_admin_successful
-rw------- 1 u1001 u1001 1144 Oct 28 00:43 .viminfo
u1001@f2-vm:/$ touch /mnt/my-file
u1001@f2-vm:/$ setfacl -m u:1001:rwx /mnt/my-file
u1001@f2-vm:/$ sudo setcap -n 1001 cap_net_raw+ep /mnt/my-file
u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /mnt/my-file
-rw-rwxr--+ 1 u1001 u1001 0 Oct 28 22:14 /mnt/my-file
u1001@f2-vm:/$ ls -al /home/ubuntu/my-file
-rw-rwxr--+ 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 22:14 /home/ubuntu/my-file
u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /mnt/my-file
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: mnt/my-file
# owner: u1001
# group: u1001
user::rw-
user:u1001:rwx
group::rw-
mask::rwx
other::r--
u1001@f2-vm:/$ getfacl /home/ubuntu/my-file
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
# file: home/ubuntu/my-file
# owner: ubuntu
# group: ubuntu
user::rw-
user:ubuntu:rwx
group::rw-
mask::rwx
other::r--"
* tag 'idmapped-mounts-v5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux: (41 commits)
xfs: remove the possibly unused mp variable in xfs_file_compat_ioctl
xfs: support idmapped mounts
ext4: support idmapped mounts
fat: handle idmapped mounts
tests: add mount_setattr() selftests
fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP
fs: add mount_setattr()
fs: add attr_flags_to_mnt_flags helper
fs: split out functions to hold writers
namespace: only take read lock in do_reconfigure_mnt()
mount: make {lock,unlock}_mount_hash() static
namespace: take lock_mount_hash() directly when changing flags
nfs: do not export idmapped mounts
overlayfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts
ecryptfs: do not mount on top of idmapped mounts
ima: handle idmapped mounts
apparmor: handle idmapped mounts
fs: make helpers idmap mount aware
exec: handle idmapped mounts
would_dump: handle idmapped mounts
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Merge tag 'lazytime_for_v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs
Pull lazytime updates from Jan Kara:
"Cleanups of the lazytime handling in the writeback code making rules
for calling ->dirty_inode() filesystem handlers saner"
* tag 'lazytime_for_v5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs:
ext4: simplify i_state checks in __ext4_update_other_inode_time()
gfs2: don't worry about I_DIRTY_TIME in gfs2_fsync()
fs: improve comments for writeback_single_inode()
fs: drop redundant check from __writeback_single_inode()
fs: clean up __mark_inode_dirty() a bit
fs: pass only I_DIRTY_INODE flags to ->dirty_inode
fs: don't call ->dirty_inode for lazytime timestamp updates
fat: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in fat_update_time()
fs: only specify I_DIRTY_TIME when needed in generic_update_time()
fs: correctly document the inode dirty flags
Now that generic_set_encrypted_ci_d_ops() has been added and ext4 and
f2fs are using it, it's no longer necessary to export
generic_ci_d_compare() and generic_ci_d_hash() to filesystems.
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Extend some inode methods with an additional user namespace argument. A
filesystem that is aware of idmapped mounts will receive the user
namespace the mount has been marked with. This can be used for
additional permission checking and also to enable filesystems to
translate between uids and gids if they need to. We have implemented all
relevant helpers in earlier patches.
As requested we simply extend the exisiting inode method instead of
introducing new ones. This is a little more code churn but it's mostly
mechanical and doesnt't leave us with additional inode methods.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-25-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
When truncating files the vfs will verify that the caller is privileged
over the inode. Extend it to handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is
accessed through an idmapped mount it is mapped according to the mount's
user namespace. Afterwards the permissions checks are identical to
non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing
changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-16-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The various vfs_*() helpers are called by filesystems or by the vfs
itself to perform core operations such as create, link, mkdir, mknod, rename,
rmdir, tmpfile and unlink. Enable them to handle idmapped mounts. If the
inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the
mount's user namespace and pass it down. Afterwards the checks and
operations are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user
namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see
identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-15-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
In order to handle idmapped mounts we will extend the vfs rename helper
to take two new arguments in follow up patches. Since this operations
already takes a bunch of arguments add a simple struct renamedata and
make the current helper use it before we extend it.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-14-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The may_follow_link(), may_linkat(), may_lookup(), may_open(),
may_o_create(), may_create_in_sticky(), may_delete(), and may_create()
helpers determine whether the caller is privileged enough to perform the
associated operations. Let them handle idmapped mounts by mapping the
inode or fsids according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the
checks are identical to non-idmapped inodes. The patch takes care to
retrieve the mount's user namespace right before performing permission
checks and passing it down into the fileystem so the user namespace
can't change in between by someone idmapping a mount that is currently
not idmapped. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so
non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-13-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The generic_fillattr() helper fills in the basic attributes associated
with an inode. Enable it to handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is
accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the mount's user
namespace before we store the uid and gid. If the initial user namespace
is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical
behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-12-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
When file attributes are changed most filesystems rely on the
setattr_prepare(), setattr_copy(), and notify_change() helpers for
initialization and permission checking. Let them handle idmapped mounts.
If the inode is accessed through an idmapped mount map it into the
mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks are identical to
non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing
changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before.
Helpers that perform checks on the ia_uid and ia_gid fields in struct
iattr assume that ia_uid and ia_gid are intended values and have already
been mapped correctly at the userspace-kernelspace boundary as we
already do today. If the initial user namespace is passed nothing
changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-8-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The inode_owner_or_capable() helper determines whether the caller is the
owner of the inode or is capable with respect to that inode. Allow it to
handle idmapped mounts. If the inode is accessed through an idmapped
mount it according to the mount's user namespace. Afterwards the checks
are identical to non-idmapped mounts. If the initial user namespace is
passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts will see identical
behavior as before.
Similarly, allow the inode_init_owner() helper to handle idmapped
mounts. It initializes a new inode on idmapped mounts by mapping the
fsuid and fsgid of the caller from the mount's user namespace. If the
initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts
will see identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-7-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
The two helpers inode_permission() and generic_permission() are used by
the vfs to perform basic permission checking by verifying that the
caller is privileged over an inode. In order to handle idmapped mounts
we extend the two helpers with an additional user namespace argument.
On idmapped mounts the two helpers will make sure to map the inode
according to the mount's user namespace and then peform identical
permission checks to inode_permission() and generic_permission(). If the
initial user namespace is passed nothing changes so non-idmapped mounts
will see identical behavior as before.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-6-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Add two simple helpers to check permissions on a file and path
respectively and convert over some callers. It simplifies quite a few
codepaths and also reduces the churn in later patches quite a bit.
Christoph also correctly points out that this makes codepaths (e.g.
ioctls) way easier to follow that would otherwise have to do more
complex argument passing than necessary.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-4-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Add simple helpers to make it easy to map kuids into and from idmapped
mounts. We provide simple wrappers that filesystems can use to e.g.
initialize inodes similar to i_{uid,gid}_read() and i_{uid,gid}_write().
Accessing an inode through an idmapped mount maps the i_uid and i_gid of
the inode to the mount's user namespace. If the fsids are used to
initialize inodes they are unmapped according to the mount's user
namespace. Passing the initial user namespace to these helpers makes
them a nop and so any non-idmapped paths will not be impacted.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-3-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
In order to support per-mount idmappings vfsmounts are marked with user
namespaces. The idmapping of the user namespace will be used to map the
ids of vfs objects when they are accessed through that mount. By default
all vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace. The initial
user namespace is used to indicate that a mount is not idmapped. All
operations behave as before.
Based on prior discussions we want to attach the whole user namespace
and not just a dedicated idmapping struct. This allows us to reuse all
the helpers that already exist for dealing with idmappings instead of
introducing a whole new range of helpers. In addition, if we decide in
the future that we are confident enough to enable unprivileged users to
setup idmapped mounts the permission checking can take into account
whether the caller is privileged in the user namespace the mount is
currently marked with.
Later patches enforce that once a mount has been idmapped it can't be
remapped. This keeps permission checking and life-cycle management
simple. Users wanting to change the idmapped can always create a new
detached mount with a different idmapping.
Add a new mnt_userns member to vfsmount and two simple helpers to
retrieve the mnt_userns from vfsmounts and files.
The idea to attach user namespaces to vfsmounts has been floated around
in various forms at Linux Plumbers in ~2018 with the original idea
tracing back to a discussion in 2017 at a conference in St. Petersburg
between Christoph, Tycho, and myself.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Since I_DIRTY_TIME and I_DIRTY_INODE are mutually exclusive in i_state,
there's no need to check for I_DIRTY_TIME && !I_DIRTY_INODE. Just check
for I_DIRTY_TIME.
Also introduce a helper function in include/linux/fs.h to do this check.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-12-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
The documentation for I_DIRTY_SYNC and I_DIRTY_DATASYNC is a bit
misleading, and I_DIRTY_TIME isn't documented at all. Fix this.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210112190253.64307-3-ebiggers@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted patches from previous cycle(s)..."
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fix hostfs_open() use of ->f_path.dentry
Make sure that make_create_in_sticky() never sees uninitialized value of dir_mode
fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set
fs: Handle I_DONTCACHE in iput_final() instead of generic_drop_inode()
fs/namespace.c: WARN if mnt_count has become negative
In this round, we've made more work into per-file compression support. For
example, F2FS_IOC_GET|SET_COMPRESS_OPTION provides a way to change the
algorithm or cluster size per file. F2FS_IOC_COMPRESS|DECOMPRESS_FILE provides
a way to compress and decompress the existing normal files manually along with
a new mount option, compress_mode=fs|user, which can control who compresses the
data. Chao also added a checksum feature with a mount option so that we are able
to detect any corrupted cluster. In addition, Daniel contributed casefolding
with encryption patch, which will be used for Android devices.
Enhancement:
- add ioctls and mount option to manage per-file compression feature
- support casefolding with encryption
- support checksum for compressed cluster
- avoid IO starvation by replacing mutex with rwsem
- add sysfs, max_io_bytes, to control max bio size
Bug fix:
- fix use-after-free issue when compression and fsverity are enabled
- fix consistency corruption during fault injection test
- fix data offset for lseek
- get rid of buffer_head which has 32bits limit in fiemap
- fix some bugs in multi-partitions support
- fix nat entry count calculation in shrinker
- fix some stat information
And, we've refactored some logics and fix minor bugs as well.
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Merge tag 'f2fs-for-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, we've made more work into per-file compression support.
For example, F2FS_IOC_GET | SET_COMPRESS_OPTION provides a way to
change the algorithm or cluster size per file. F2FS_IOC_COMPRESS |
DECOMPRESS_FILE provides a way to compress and decompress the existing
normal files manually.
There is also a new mount option, compress_mode=fs|user, which can
control who compresses the data.
Chao also added a checksum feature with a mount option so that
we are able to detect any corrupted cluster.
In addition, Daniel contributed casefolding with encryption patch,
which will be used for Android devices.
Summary:
Enhancements:
- add ioctls and mount option to manage per-file compression feature
- support casefolding with encryption
- support checksum for compressed cluster
- avoid IO starvation by replacing mutex with rwsem
- add sysfs, max_io_bytes, to control max bio size
Bug fixes:
- fix use-after-free issue when compression and fsverity are enabled
- fix consistency corruption during fault injection test
- fix data offset for lseek
- get rid of buffer_head which has 32bits limit in fiemap
- fix some bugs in multi-partitions support
- fix nat entry count calculation in shrinker
- fix some stat information
And, we've refactored some logics and fix minor bugs as well"
* tag 'f2fs-for-5.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (36 commits)
f2fs: compress: fix compression chksum
f2fs: fix shift-out-of-bounds in sanity_check_raw_super()
f2fs: fix race of pending_pages in decompression
f2fs: fix to account inline xattr correctly during recovery
f2fs: inline: fix wrong inline inode stat
f2fs: inline: correct comment in f2fs_recover_inline_data
f2fs: don't check PAGE_SIZE again in sanity_check_raw_super()
f2fs: convert to F2FS_*_INO macro
f2fs: introduce max_io_bytes, a sysfs entry, to limit bio size
f2fs: don't allow any writes on readonly mount
f2fs: avoid race condition for shrinker count
f2fs: add F2FS_IOC_DECOMPRESS_FILE and F2FS_IOC_COMPRESS_FILE
f2fs: add compress_mode mount option
f2fs: Remove unnecessary unlikely()
f2fs: init dirty_secmap incorrectly
f2fs: remove buffer_head which has 32bits limit
f2fs: fix wrong block count instead of bytes
f2fs: use new conversion functions between blks and bytes
f2fs: rename logical_to_blk and blk_to_logical
f2fs: fix kbytes written stat for multi-device case
...
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Merge tag 'for-5.11/block-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"Another series of killing more code than what is being added, again
thanks to Christoph's relentless cleanups and tech debt tackling.
This contains:
- blk-iocost improvements (Baolin Wang)
- part0 iostat fix (Jeffle Xu)
- Disable iopoll for split bios (Jeffle Xu)
- block tracepoint cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)
- Merging of struct block_device and hd_struct (Christoph Hellwig)
- Rework/cleanup of how block device sizes are updated (Christoph
Hellwig)
- Simplification of gendisk lookup and removal of block device
aliasing (Christoph Hellwig)
- Block device ioctl cleanups (Christoph Hellwig)
- Removal of bdget()/blkdev_get() as exported API (Christoph Hellwig)
- Disk change rework, avoid ->revalidate_disk() (Christoph Hellwig)
- sbitmap improvements (Pavel Begunkov)
- Hybrid polling fix (Pavel Begunkov)
- bvec iteration improvements (Pavel Begunkov)
- Zone revalidation fixes (Damien Le Moal)
- blk-throttle limit fix (Yu Kuai)
- Various little fixes"
* tag 'for-5.11/block-2020-12-14' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (126 commits)
blk-mq: fix msec comment from micro to milli seconds
blk-mq: update arg in comment of blk_mq_map_queue
blk-mq: add helper allocating tagset->tags
Revert "block: Fix a lockdep complaint triggered by request queue flushing"
nvme-loop: use blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class to set loop's lock class
blk-mq: add new API of blk_mq_hctx_set_fq_lock_class
block: disable iopoll for split bio
block: Improve blk_revalidate_disk_zones() checks
sbitmap: simplify wrap check
sbitmap: replace CAS with atomic and
sbitmap: remove swap_lock
sbitmap: optimise sbitmap_deferred_clear()
blk-mq: skip hybrid polling if iopoll doesn't spin
blk-iocost: Factor out the base vrate change into a separate function
blk-iocost: Factor out the active iocgs' state check into a separate function
blk-iocost: Move the usage ratio calculation to the correct place
blk-iocost: Remove unnecessary advance declaration
blk-iocost: Fix some typos in comments
blktrace: fix up a kerneldoc comment
block: remove the request_queue to argument request based tracepoints
...
Pull epoll updates from Al Viro:
"Deal with epoll loop check/removal races sanely (among other things).
The solution merged last cycle (pinning a bunch of struct file
instances) had been forced by the wrong data structures; untangling
that takes a bunch of preparations, but it's worth doing - control
flow in there is ridiculously overcomplicated. Memory footprint has
also gone down, while we are at it.
This is not all I want to do in the area, but since I didn't get
around to posting the followups they'll have to wait for the next
cycle"
* 'work.epoll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (27 commits)
epoll: take epitem list out of struct file
epoll: massage the check list insertion
lift rcu_read_lock() into reverse_path_check()
convert ->f_ep_links/->fllink to hlist
ep_insert(): move creation of wakeup source past the fl_ep_links insertion
fold ep_read_events_proc() into the only caller
take the common part of ep_eventpoll_poll() and ep_item_poll() into helper
ep_insert(): we only need tep->mtx around the insertion itself
ep_insert(): don't open-code ep_remove() on failure exits
lift locking/unlocking ep->mtx out of ep_{start,done}_scan()
ep_send_events_proc(): fold into the caller
lift the calls of ep_send_events_proc() into the callers
lift the calls of ep_read_events_proc() into the callers
ep_scan_ready_list(): prepare to splitup
ep_loop_check_proc(): saner calling conventions
get rid of ep_push_nested()
ep_loop_check_proc(): lift pushing the cookie into callers
clean reverse_path_check_proc() a bit
reverse_path_check_proc(): don't bother with cookies
reverse_path_check_proc(): sane arguments
...
Long ago there wasn't a FOLL_LONGTERM flag so this DAX check was done by
post-processing the VMA list.
These days it is trivial to just check each VMA to see if it is DAX before
processing it inside __get_user_pages() and return failure if a DAX VMA is
encountered with FOLL_LONGTERM.
Removing the allocation of the VMA list is a significant speed up for many
call sites.
Add an IS_ENABLED to vma_is_fsdax so that code generation is unchanged
when DAX is compiled out.
Remove the dummy version of __gup_longterm_locked() as !CONFIG_CMA already
makes memalloc_nocma_save(), check_and_migrate_cma_pages(), and
memalloc_nocma_restore() into a NOP.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0-v1-5551df3ed12e+b8-gup_dax_speedup_jgg@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If generic_drop_inode() returns true, it means iput_final() can evict
this inode regardless of whether it is dirty or not. If we check
I_DONTCACHE in generic_drop_inode(), any inode with this bit set will be
evicted unconditionally. This is not the desired behavior because
I_DONTCACHE only means the inode shouldn't be cached on the LRU list.
As for whether we need to evict this inode, this is what
generic_drop_inode() should do. This patch corrects the usage of
I_DONTCACHE.
This patch was proposed in [1].
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20200831003407.GE12096@dread.disaster.area/
Fixes: dae2f8ed79 ("fs: Lift XFS_IDONTCACHE to the VFS layer")
Signed-off-by: Hao Li <lihao2018.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This adds a function to set dentry operations at lookup time that will
work for both encrypted filenames and casefolded filenames.
A filesystem that supports both features simultaneously can use this
function during lookup preparations to set up its dentry operations once
fscrypt no longer does that itself.
Currently the casefolding dentry operation are always set if the
filesystem defines an encoding because the features is toggleable on
empty directories. Unlike in the encryption case, the dentry operations
used come from the parent. Since we don't know what set of functions
we'll eventually need, and cannot change them later, we enable the
casefolding operations if the filesystem supports them at all.
By splitting out the various cases, we support as few dentry operations
as we can get away with, maximizing compatibility with overlayfs, which
will not function if a filesystem supports certain dentry_operations.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Rosenberg <drosen@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Switch the block device lookup interfaces to directly work with a dev_t
so that struct block_device references are only acquired by the
blkdev_get variants (and the blk-cgroup special case). This means that
we now don't need an extra reference in the inode and can generally
simplify handling of struct block_device to keep the lookups contained
in the core block layer code.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Coly Li <colyli@suse.de> [bcache]
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Just open code the wait in the only caller of both functions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
- Minor cleanups of the sb_start_* fs freeze helpers.
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Merge tag 'vfs-5.10-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux
Pull fs freeze fix and cleanups from Darrick Wong:
"A single vfs fix for 5.10, along with two subsequent cleanups.
A very long time ago, a hack was added to the vfs fs freeze protection
code to work around lockdep complaints about XFS, which would try to
run a transaction (which requires intwrite protection) to finalize an
xfs freeze (by which time the vfs had already taken intwrite).
Fast forward a few years, and XFS fixed the recursive intwrite problem
on its own, and the hack became unnecessary. Fast forward almost a
decade, and latent bugs in the code converting this hack from freeze
flags to freeze locks combine with lockdep bugs to make this reproduce
frequently enough to notice page faults racing with freeze.
Since the hack is unnecessary and causes thread race errors, just get
rid of it completely. Making this kind of vfs change midway through a
cycle makes me nervous, but a large enough number of the usual
VFS/ext4/XFS/btrfs suspects have said this looks good and solves a
real problem vector.
And once that removal is done, __sb_start_write is now simple enough
that it becomes possible to refactor the function into smaller,
simpler static inline helpers in linux/fs.h. The cleanup is
straightforward.
Summary:
- Finally remove the "convert to trylock" weirdness in the fs freezer
code. It was necessary 10 years ago to deal with nested
transactions in XFS, but we've long since removed that; and now
this is causing subtle race conditions when lockdep goes offline
and sb_start_* aren't prepared to retry a trylock failure.
- Minor cleanups of the sb_start_* fs freeze helpers"
* tag 'vfs-5.10-fixes-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux:
vfs: move __sb_{start,end}_write* to fs.h
vfs: separate __sb_start_write into blocking and non-blocking helpers
vfs: remove lockdep bogosity in __sb_start_write
Now that we've straightened out the callers, move these three functions
to fs.h since they're fairly trivial.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Break this function into two helpers so that it's obvious that the
trylock versions return a value that must be checked, and the blocking
versions don't require that. While we're at it, clean up the return
type mismatch.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <darrick.wong@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Move the head of epitem list out of struct file; for epoll ones it's
moved into struct eventpoll (->refs there), for non-epoll - into
the new object (struct epitem_head). In place of ->f_ep_links we
leave a pointer to the list head (->f_ep).
->f_ep is protected by ->f_lock and it's zeroed as soon as the list
of epitems becomes empty (that can happen only in ep_remove() by
now).
The list of files for reverse path check is *not* going through
struct file now - it's a single-linked list going through epitem_head
instances. It's terminated by ERR_PTR(-1) (== EP_UNACTIVE_POINTER),
so the elements of list can be distinguished by head->next != NULL.
epitem_head instances are allocated at ep_insert() time (by
attach_epitem()) and freed either by ep_remove() (if it empties
the set of epitems *and* epitem_head does not belong to the
reverse path check list) or by clear_tfile_check_list() when
the list is emptied (if the set of epitems is empty by that
point). Allocations are done from a separate slab - minimal kmalloc()
size is too large on some architectures.
As the result, we trim struct file _and_ get rid of the games with
temporary file references.
Locking and barriers are interesting (aren't they always); see unlist_file()
and ep_remove() for details. The non-obvious part is that ep_remove() needs
to decide if it will be the one to free the damn thing *before* actually
storing NULL to head->epitems.first - that's what smp_load_acquire is for
in there. unlist_file() lockless path is safe, since we hit it only if
we observe NULL in head->epitems.first and whoever had done that store is
guaranteed to have observed non-NULL in head->next. IOW, their last access
had been the store of NULL into ->epitems.first and we can safely free
the sucker. OTOH, we are under rcu_read_lock() and both epitem and
epitem->file have their freeing RCU-delayed. So if we see non-NULL
->epitems.first, we can grab ->f_lock (all epitems in there share the
same struct file) and safely recheck the emptiness of ->epitems; again,
->next is still non-NULL, so ep_remove() couldn't have freed head yet.
->f_lock serializes us wrt ep_remove(); the rest is trivial.
Note that once head->epitems becomes NULL, nothing can get inserted into
it - the only remaining reference to head after that point is from the
reverse path check list.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
David Hildenbrand