kernel/linux.git/fs/namei.c, branch v6.6.133

openat2: don't trigger automounts with RESOLVE_NO_XDEV

2025-10-19T14:30:51+00:00

commit 042a60680de43175eb4df0977ff04a4eba9da082 upstream. openat2 had a bug: if we pass RESOLVE_NO_XDEV, then openat2 doesn't traverse through automounts, but may still trigger them. (See the link for full bug report with reproducer.) This commit fixes this bug. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20250817075252.4137628-1-safinaskar@zohomail.com/ Fixes: fddb5d430ad9fa91b49b1 ("open: introduce openat2(2) syscall") Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Askar Safin Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250825181233.2464822-5-safinaskar@zohomail.com Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fuse: don't truncate cached, mutated symlink

2025-03-22T19:50:44+00:00

[ Upstream commit b4c173dfbb6c78568578ff18f9e8822d7bd0e31b ] Fuse allows the value of a symlink to change and this property is exploited by some filesystems (e.g. CVMFS). It has been observed, that sometimes after changing the symlink contents, the value is truncated to the old size. This is caused by fuse_getattr() racing with fuse_reverse_inval_inode(). fuse_reverse_inval_inode() updates the fuse_inode's attr_version, which results in fuse_change_attributes() exiting before updating the cached attributes This is okay, as the cached attributes remain invalid and the next call to fuse_change_attributes() will likely update the inode with the correct values. The reason this causes problems is that cached symlinks will be returned through page_get_link(), which truncates the symlink to inode->i_size. This is correct for filesystems that don't mutate symlinks, but in this case it causes bad behavior. The solution is to just remove this truncation. This can cause a regression in a filesystem that relies on supplying a symlink larger than the file size, but this is unlikely. If that happens we'd need to make this behavior conditional. Reported-by: Laura Promberger Tested-by: Sam Lewis Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250220100258.793363-1-mszeredi@redhat.com Reviewed-by: Bernd Schubert Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

fs: Create a generic is_dot_dotdot() utility

2024-10-04T14:29:48+00:00

commit 42c3732fa8073717dd7d924472f1c0bc5b452fdc upstream. De-duplicate the same functionality in several places by hoisting the is_dot_dotdot() utility function into linux/fs.h. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Acked-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

rename(): fix the locking of subdirectories

2024-02-01T00:18:57+00:00

commit 22e111ed6c83dcde3037fc81176012721bc34c0b upstream. We should never lock two subdirectories without having taken ->s_vfs_rename_mutex; inode pointer order or not, the "order" proposed in 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" is not transitive, with the usual consequences. The rationale for locking renamed subdirectory in all cases was the possibility of race between rename modifying .. in a subdirectory to reflect the new parent and another thread modifying the same subdirectory. For a lot of filesystems that's not a problem, but for some it can lead to trouble (e.g. the case when short directory contents is kept in the inode, but creating a file in it might push it across the size limit and copy its contents into separate data block(s)). However, we need that only in case when the parent does change - otherwise ->rename() doesn't need to do anything with .. entry in the first place. Some instances are lazy and do a tautological update anyway, but it's really not hard to avoid. Amended locking rules for rename(): find the parent(s) of source and target if source and target have the same parent lock the common parent else lock ->s_vfs_rename_mutex lock both parents, in ancestor-first order; if neither is an ancestor of another, lock the parent of source first. find the source and target. if source and target have the same parent if operation is an overwriting rename of a subdirectory lock the target subdirectory else if source is a subdirectory lock the source if target is a subdirectory lock the target lock non-directories involved, in inode pointer order if both source and target are such. That way we are guaranteed that parents are locked (for obvious reasons), that any renamed non-directory is locked (nfsd relies upon that), that any victim is locked (emptiness check needs that, among other things) and subdirectory that changes parent is locked (needed to protect the update of .. entries). We are also guaranteed that any operation locking more than one directory either takes ->s_vfs_rename_mutex or locks a parent followed by its child. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 28eceeda130f "fs: Lock moved directories" Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

audit,io_uring: io_uring openat triggers audit reference count underflow

2023-10-13T16:34:46+00:00

An io_uring openat operation can update an audit reference count from multiple threads resulting in the call trace below. A call to io_uring_submit() with a single openat op with a flag of IOSQE_ASYNC results in the following reference count updates. These first part of the system call performs two increments that do not race. do_syscall_64() __do_sys_io_uring_enter() io_submit_sqes() io_openat_prep() __io_openat_prep() getname() getname_flags() /* update 1 (increment) */ __audit_getname() /* update 2 (increment) */ The openat op is queued to an io_uring worker thread which starts the opportunity for a race. The system call exit performs one decrement. do_syscall_64() syscall_exit_to_user_mode() syscall_exit_to_user_mode_prepare() __audit_syscall_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 3 (decrement) */ The io_uring worker thread performs one increment and two decrements. These updates can race with the system call decrement. io_wqe_worker() io_worker_handle_work() io_wq_submit_work() io_issue_sqe() io_openat() io_openat2() do_filp_open() path_openat() __audit_inode() /* update 4 (increment) */ putname() /* update 5 (decrement) */ __audit_uring_exit() audit_reset_context() putname() /* update 6 (decrement) */ The fix is to change the refcnt member of struct audit_names from int to atomic_t. kernel BUG at fs/namei.c:262! Call Trace: ... ? putname+0x68/0x70 audit_reset_context.part.0.constprop.0+0xe1/0x300 __audit_uring_exit+0xda/0x1c0 io_issue_sqe+0x1f3/0x450 ? lock_timer_base+0x3b/0xd0 io_wq_submit_work+0x8d/0x2b0 ? __try_to_del_timer_sync+0x67/0xa0 io_worker_handle_work+0x17c/0x2b0 io_wqe_worker+0x10a/0x350 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/MW2PR2101MB1033FFF044A258F84AEAA584F1C9A@MW2PR2101MB1033.namprd21.prod.outlook.com/ Fixes: 5bd2182d58e9 ("audit,io_uring,io-wq: add some basic audit support to io_uring") Signed-off-by: Dan Clash Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012215518.GA4048@linuxonhyperv3.guj3yctzbm1etfxqx2vob5hsef.xx.internal.cloudapp.net Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: Fix kernel-doc warnings

2023-08-19T10:12:12+00:00

These have a variety of causes and a corresponding variety of solutions. Signed-off-by: "Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)" Message-Id: <20230818200824.2720007-1-willy@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: Fix error checking for d_hash_and_lookup()

2023-07-14T15:01:23+00:00

The d_hash_and_lookup() function returns error pointers or NULL. Most incorrect error checks were fixed, but the one in int path_pts() was forgotten. Fixes: eedf265aa003 ("devpts: Make each mount of devpts an independent filesystem.") Signed-off-by: Wang Ming Message-Id: <20230713120555.7025-1-machel@vivo.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

fs: no need to check source

2023-07-04T08:20:29+00:00

The @source inode must be valid. It is even checked via IS_SWAPFILE() above making it pretty clear. So no need to check it when we unlock. What doesn't need to exist is the @target inode. The lock_two_inodes() helper currently swaps the @inode1 and @inode2 arguments if @inode1 is NULL to have consistent lock class usage. However, we know that at least for vfs_rename() that @inode1 is @source and thus is never NULL as per above. We also know that @source is a different inode than @target as that is checked right at the beginning of vfs_rename(). So we know that @source is valid and locked and that @target is locked. So drop the check whether @source is non-NULL. Fixes: 28eceeda130f ("fs: Lock moved directories") Reported-by: kernel test robot Reported-by: Dan Carpenter Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/r/202307030026.9sE2pk2x-lkp@intel.com Message-Id: <20230703-vfs-rename-source-v1-1-37eebb29b65b@kernel.org> [brauner: use commit message from patch I sent concurrently] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner

Merge tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs

2023-06-26T17:14:36+00:00

Pull vfs file handling updates from Christian Brauner: "This contains Amir's work to fix a long-standing problem where an unprivileged overlayfs mount can be used to avoid fanotify permission events that were requested for an inode or superblock on the underlying filesystem. Some background about files opened in overlayfs. If a file is opened in overlayfs @file->f_path will refer to a "fake" path. What this means is that while @file->f_inode will refer to inode of the underlying layer, @file->f_path refers to an overlayfs {dentry,vfsmount} pair. The reasons for doing this are out of scope here but it is the reason why the vfs has been providing the open_with_fake_path() helper for overlayfs for very long time now. So nothing new here. This is for sure not very elegant and everyone including the overlayfs maintainers agree. Improving this significantly would involve more fragile and potentially rather invasive changes. In various codepaths access to the path of the underlying filesystem is needed for such hybrid file. The best example is fsnotify where this becomes security relevant. Passing the overlayfs @file->f_path->dentry will cause fsnotify to skip generating fsnotify events registered on the underlying inode or superblock. To fix this we extend the vfs provided open_with_fake_path() concept for overlayfs to create a backing file container that holds the real path and to expose a helper that can be used by relevant callers to get access to the path of the underlying filesystem through the new file_real_path() helper. This pattern is similar to what we do in d_real() and d_real_inode(). The first beneficiary is fsnotify and fixes the security sensitive problem mentioned above. There's a couple of nice cleanups included as well. Over time, the old open_with_fake_path() helper added specifically for overlayfs a long time ago started to get used in other places such as cachefiles. Even though cachefiles have nothing to do with hybrid files. The only reason cachefiles used that concept was that files opened with open_with_fake_path() aren't charged against the caller's open file limit by raising FMODE_NOACCOUNT. It's just mere coincidence that both overlayfs and cachefiles need to ensure to not overcharge the caller for their internal open calls. So this work disentangles FMODE_NOACCOUNT use cases and backing file use-cases by adding the FMODE_BACKING flag which indicates that the file can be used to retrieve the backing file of another filesystem. (Fyi, Jens will be sending you a really nice cleanup from Christoph that gets rid of 3 FMODE_* flags otherwise this would be the last fmode_t bit we'd be using.) So now overlayfs becomes the sole user of the renamed open_with_fake_path() helper which is now named backing_file_open(). For internal kernel users such as cachefiles that are only interested in FMODE_NOACCOUNT but not in FMODE_BACKING we add a new kernel_file_open() helper which opens a file without being charged against the caller's open file limit. All new helpers are properly documented and clearly annotated to mention their special uses. We also rename vfs_tmpfile_open() to kernel_tmpfile_open() to clearly distinguish it from vfs_tmpfile() and align it the other kernel_*() internal helpers" * tag 'v6.5/vfs.file' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: ovl: enable fsnotify events on underlying real files fs: use backing_file container for internal files with "fake" f_path fs: move kmem_cache_zalloc() into alloc_empty_file*() helpers fs: use a helper for opening kernel internal files fs: rename {vfs,kernel}_tmpfile_open()

fs: rename {vfs,kernel}_tmpfile_open()

2023-06-19T16:09:09+00:00

Overlayfs and cachefiles use vfs_open_tmpfile() to open a tmpfile without accounting for nr_files. Rename this helper to kernel_tmpfile_open() to better reflect this helper is used for kernel internal users. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Message-Id: <20230615112229.2143178-2-amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner