kernel/linux.git/fs/cachefiles/daemon.c, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

cachefiles: Parse the "secctx" immediately

2024-12-20T21:07:56+00:00

Instead of storing an opaque string, call security_secctx_to_secid() right in the "secctx" command handler and store only the numeric "secid". This eliminates an unnecessary string allocation and allows the daemon to receive errors when writing the "secctx" command instead of postponing the error to the "bind" command handler. For example, if the kernel was built without `CONFIG_SECURITY`, "bind" will return `EOPNOTSUPP`, but the daemon doesn't know why. With this patch, the "secctx" will instead return `EOPNOTSUPP` which is the right context for this error. This patch adds a boolean flag `have_secid` because I'm not sure if we can safely assume that zero is the special secid value for "not set". This appears to be true for SELinux, Smack and AppArmor, but since this attribute is not documented, I'm unable to derive a stable guarantee for that. Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann Signed-off-by: David Howells Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241209141554.638708-1-max.kellermann@ionos.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241213135013.2964079-6-dhowells@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge patch series "cachefiles: random bugfixes"

2024-07-05T16:40:40+00:00

libaokun@huaweicloud.com says: This is the third version of this patch series, in which another patch set is subsumed into this one to avoid confusing the two patch sets. (https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fsdevel/list/?series=854914) We've been testing ondemand mode for cachefiles since January, and we're almost done. We hit a lot of issues during the testing period, and this patch series fixes some of the issues. The patches have passed internal testing without regression. The following is a brief overview of the patches, see the patches for more details. Patch 1-2: Add fscache_try_get_volume() helper function to avoid fscache_volume use-after-free on cache withdrawal. Patch 3: Fix cachefiles_lookup_cookie() and cachefiles_withdraw_cache() concurrency causing cachefiles_volume use-after-free. Patch 4: Propagate error codes returned by vfs_getxattr() to avoid endless loops. Patch 5-7: A read request waiting for reopen could be closed maliciously before the reopen worker is executing or waiting to be scheduled. So ondemand_object_worker() may be called after the info and object and even the cache have been freed and trigger use-after-free. So use cancel_work_sync() in cachefiles_ondemand_clean_object() to cancel the reopen worker or wait for it to finish. Since it makes no sense to wait for the daemon to complete the reopen request, to avoid this pointless operation blocking cancel_work_sync(), Patch 1 avoids request generation by the DROPPING state when the request has not been sent, and Patch 2 flushes the requests of the current object before cancel_work_sync(). Patch 8: Cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid msg_id reuse misleading the daemon to cause hung. Patch 9: Hold xas_lock during polling to avoid dereferencing reqs causing use-after-free. This issue was triggered frequently in our tests, and we found that anolis 5.10 had fixed it. So to avoid failing the test, this patch is pushed upstream as well. Baokun Li (7): netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add fscache_try_get_volume() cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume() cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie() cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite loop cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse Hou Tao (1): cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping object Jingbo Xu (1): cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling fs/cachefiles/cache.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 4 +-- fs/cachefiles/internal.h | 3 ++ fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- fs/cachefiles/volume.c | 1 - fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 5 +++- fs/netfs/fscache_volume.c | 14 +++++++++ fs/netfs/internal.h | 2 -- include/linux/fscache-cache.h | 6 ++++ include/trace/events/fscache.h | 4 +++ 10 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling

2024-07-03T08:36:16+00:00

Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray, otherwise: Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is ensured to be pinned there, while the data structure (e.g. struct cachefiles_req) stored in the slot has no such guarantee. The poll routine will iterate the radix tree and dereference cachefiles_req accordingly. Thus RCU read lock is not adequate in this case and spinlock is needed here. Fixes: b817e22b2e91 ("cachefiles: narrow the scope of triggering EPOLLIN events in ondemand mode") Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-10-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Acked-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jia Zhu Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: flush all requests after setting CACHEFILES_DEAD

2024-05-29T11:03:31+00:00

In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write() will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel. Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task. Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing /dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles. Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req, otherwise it may UAF. Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-12-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Acked-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: remove requests from xarray during flushing requests

2024-05-29T11:03:29+00:00

Even with CACHEFILES_DEAD set, we can still read the requests, so in the following concurrency the request may be used after it has been freed: mount | daemon_thread1 | daemon_thread2 ------------------------------------------------------------ cachefiles_ondemand_init_object cachefiles_ondemand_send_req REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len) wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done) cachefiles_daemon_read cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read // close dev fd cachefiles_flush_reqs complete(&REQ_A->done) kfree(REQ_A) xa_lock(&cache->reqs); cachefiles_ondemand_select_req req->msg.opcode != CACHEFILES_OP_READ // req use-after-free !!! xa_unlock(&cache->reqs); xa_destroy(&cache->reqs) Hence remove requests from cache->reqs when flushing them to avoid accessing freed requests. Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-3-libaokun@huaweicloud.com Acked-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Jia Zhu Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: fix memory leak in cachefiles_add_cache()

2024-02-20T08:46:07+00:00

The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles: ================================================================== unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192): comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224 hex dump (first 32 bytes): 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace (crc ea38a44b): [] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370 [] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0 [] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120 [] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0 [] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0 [] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520 [] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0 [] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140 [] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76 ================================================================== Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error branch to avoid memory leaks. Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem") CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217081431.796809-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Acked-by: David Howells Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: add restore command to recover inflight ondemand read requests

2023-11-25T15:03:57+00:00

Previously, in ondemand read scenario, if the anonymous fd was closed by user daemon, inflight and subsequent read requests would return EIO. As long as the device connection is not released, user daemon can hold and restore inflight requests by setting the request flag to CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW. Suggested-by: Gao Xiang Signed-off-by: Jia Zhu Signed-off-by: Xin Yin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120041422.75170-6-zhujia.zj@bytedance.com Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu Reviewed-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

cachefiles: narrow the scope of triggering EPOLLIN events in ondemand mode

2023-11-25T15:03:57+00:00

Don't trigger EPOLLIN when there are only reopening read requests in xarray. Suggested-by: Xin Yin Signed-off-by: Jia Zhu Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120041422.75170-5-zhujia.zj@bytedance.com Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu Reviewed-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner