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Amir Goldstein 5b910bd615 ovl: fix GPF in swapfile_activate of file from overlayfs over xfs
Since overlayfs implements stacked file operations, the underlying
filesystems are not supposed to be exposed to the overlayfs file,
whose f_inode is an overlayfs inode.

Assigning an overlayfs file to swap_file results in an attempt of xfs
code to dereference an xfs_inode struct from an ovl_inode pointer:

 CPU: 0 PID: 2462 Comm: swapon Not tainted
 4.18.0-xfstests-12721-g33e17876ea4e #3402
 RIP: 0010:xfs_find_bdev_for_inode+0x23/0x2f
 Call Trace:
  xfs_iomap_swapfile_activate+0x1f/0x43
  __se_sys_swapon+0xb1a/0xee9

Fix this by not assigning the real inode mapping to f_mapping, which
will cause swapon() to return an error (-EINVAL). Although it makes
sense not to allow setting swpafile on an overlayfs file, some users
may depend on it, so we may need to fix this up in the future.

Keeping f_mapping pointing to overlay inode mapping will cause O_DIRECT
open to fail. Fix this by installing ovl_aops with noop_direct_IO in
overlay inode mapping.

Keeping f_mapping pointing to overlay inode mapping will cause other
a_ops related operations to fail (e.g. readahead()). Those will be
fixed by follow up patches.

Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: f7c72396d0 ("ovl: add O_DIRECT support")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-08-30 17:08:35 +02:00
Documentation Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2018-08-26 09:55:28 -07:00
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block blk-wbt: don't maintain inflight counts if disabled 2018-08-23 09:34:46 -06:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto DMAengine updates for v4.19-rc1 2018-08-18 15:55:59 -07:00
drivers Merge branch 'ida-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/users/willy/linux-dax 2018-08-26 11:48:42 -07:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs ovl: fix GPF in swapfile_activate of file from overlayfs over xfs 2018-08-30 17:08:35 +02:00
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ipc ipc/util.c: update return value of ipc_getref from int to bool 2018-08-22 10:52:52 -07:00
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samples samples/bpf: all XDP samples should unload xdp/bpf prog on SIGTERM 2018-08-16 21:55:32 +02:00
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Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS libnvdimm-for-4.19_misc 2018-08-25 18:13:10 -07:00
Makefile Linux 4.19-rc1 2018-08-26 14:11:59 -07:00
README Docs: Added a pointer to the formatted docs to README 2018-03-21 09:02:53 -06:00

README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.