kernel/linux.git/fs/notify/fsnotify.c, branch v6.12.91

fanotify: fix false positive on permission events

2026-05-14T13:29:21+00:00

commit 7746e3bd4cc19b5092e00d32d676e329bfcb6900 upstream. fsnotify_get_mark_safe() may return false for a mark on an unrelated group, which results in bypassing the permission check. Fix by skipping over detached marks that are not in the current group. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: abc77577a669 ("fsnotify: Provide framework for dropping SRCU lock in ->handle_event") Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260410144950.156160-1-mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fsnotify: do not generate ACCESS/MODIFY events on child for special files

2026-01-08T09:14:24+00:00

commit 635bc4def026a24e071436f4f356ea08c0eed6ff upstream. inotify/fanotify do not allow users with no read access to a file to subscribe to events (e.g. IN_ACCESS/IN_MODIFY), but they do allow the same user to subscribe for watching events on children when the user has access to the parent directory (e.g. /dev). Users with no read access to a file but with read access to its parent directory can still stat the file and see if it was accessed/modified via atime/mtime change. The same is not true for special files (e.g. /dev/null). Users will not generally observe atime/mtime changes when other users read/write to special files, only when someone sets atime/mtime via utimensat(). Align fsnotify events with this stat behavior and do not generate ACCESS/MODIFY events to parent watchers on read/write of special files. The events are still generated to parent watchers on utimensat(). This closes some side-channels that could be possibly used for information exfiltration [1]. [1] https://snee.la/pdf/pubs/file-notification-attacks.pdf Reported-by: Sudheendra Raghav Neela CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fsnotify: fix sending inotify event with unexpected filename

2024-12-05T13:02:45+00:00

commit aa52c54da40d9eee3ba87c05cdcb0cd07c04fa13 upstream. We got a report that adding a fanotify filsystem watch prevents tail -f from receiving events. Reproducer: 1. Create 3 windows / login sessions. Become root in each session. 2. Choose a mounted filesystem that is pretty quiet; I picked /boot. 3. In the first window, run: fsnotifywait -S -m /boot 4. In the second window, run: echo data >> /boot/foo 5. In the third window, run: tail -f /boot/foo 6. Go back to the second window and run: echo more data >> /boot/foo 7. Observe that the tail command doesn't show the new data. 8. In the first window, hit control-C to interrupt fsnotifywait. 9. In the second window, run: echo still more data >> /boot/foo 10. Observe that the tail command in the third window has now printed the missing data. When stracing tail, we observed that when fanotify filesystem mark is set, tail does get the inotify event, but the event is receieved with the filename: read(4, "\1\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\20\0\0\0foo\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 50) = 32 This is unexpected, because tail is watching the file itself and not its parent and is inconsistent with the inotify event received by tail when fanotify filesystem mark is not set: read(4, "\1\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 50) = 16 The inteference between different fsnotify groups was caused by the fact that the mark on the sb requires the filename, so the filename is passed to fsnotify(). Later on, fsnotify_handle_event() tries to take care of not passing the filename to groups (such as inotify) that are interested in the filename only when the parent is watching. But the logic was incorrect for the case that no group is watching the parent, some groups are watching the sb and some watching the inode. Reported-by: Miklos Szeredi Fixes: 7372e79c9eb9 ("fanotify: fix logic of reporting name info with watched parent") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.10+ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fsnotify: Avoid data race between fsnotify_recalc_mask() and fsnotify_object_watched()

2024-10-02T13:11:40+00:00

When __fsnotify_recalc_mask() recomputes the mask on the watched object, the compiler can "optimize" the code to perform partial updates to the mask (including zeroing it at the beginning). Thus places checking the object mask without conn->lock such as fsnotify_object_watched() could see invalid states of the mask. Make sure the mask update is performed by one memory store using WRITE_ONCE(). Reported-by: syzbot+701037856c25b143f1ad@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CACT4Y+Zk0ohwwwHSD63U2-PQ=UuamXczr1mKBD6xtj2dyYKBvA@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240717140623.27768-1-jack@suse.cz

fsnotify: clear PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily

2024-06-05T07:52:38+00:00

In some setups directories can have many (usually negative) dentries. Hence __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() function can take a significant amount of time. Since the bulk of this function happens under inode->i_lock this causes a significant contention on the lock when we remove the watch from the directory as the __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() call from fsnotify_recalc_mask() races with __fsnotify_update_child_dentry_flags() calls from __fsnotify_parent() happening on children. This can lead upto softlockup reports reported by users. Fix the problem by calling fsnotify_update_children_dentry_flags() to set PARENT_WATCHED flags only when parent starts watching children. When parent stops watching children, clear false positive PARENT_WATCHED flags lazily in __fsnotify_parent() for each accessed child. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Stephen Brennan Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fsnotify: fix UAF from FS_ERROR event on a shutting down filesystem

2024-04-17T13:06:50+00:00

Protect against use after free when filesystem calls fsnotify_sb_error() during fs shutdown. Move freeing of sb->s_fsnotify_info to destroy_super_work(), because it may be accessed from fs shutdown context. Reported-by: syzbot+5e3f9b2a67b45f16d4e6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Suggested-by: Jan Kara Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20240416173211.4lnmgctyo4jn5fha@quack3/ Fixes: 07a3b8d0bf72 ("fsnotify: lazy attach fsnotify_sb_info state to sb") Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20240416181452.567070-1-amir73il@gmail.com>

fsnotify: optimize the case of no permission event watchers

2024-04-04T14:24:16+00:00

Commit e43de7f0862b ("fsnotify: optimize the case of no marks of any type") optimized the case where there are no fsnotify watchers on any of the filesystem's objects. It is quite common for a system to have a single local filesystem and it is quite common for the system to have some inotify watches on some config files or directories, so the optimization of no marks at all is often not in effect. Permission event watchers, which require high priority group are more rare, so optimizing the case of no marks og high priority groups can improve performance for more systems, especially for performance sensitive io workloads. Count per-sb watched objects by high priority groups and use that the optimize out the call to __fsnotify_parent() and fsnotify() in fsnotify permission hooks. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20240317184154.1200192-11-amir73il@gmail.com>

fsnotify: lazy attach fsnotify_sb_info state to sb

2024-04-04T14:24:16+00:00

Define a container struct fsnotify_sb_info to hold per-sb state, including the reference to sb marks connector. Allocate the fsnotify_sb_info state before attaching connector to any object on the sb and free it only when killing sb. This state is going to be used for storing per priority watched objects counters. Suggested-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20240317184154.1200192-8-amir73il@gmail.com>

fsnotify: rename fsnotify_{get,put}_sb_connectors()

2024-04-04T14:21:12+00:00

Instead of counting the number of connectors in an sb, we would like to count the number of watched objects per priority group. As a start, create an accessor fsnotify_sb_watched_objects() to s_fsnotify_connectors and rename the fsnotify_{get,put}_sb_connectors() helpers to fsnotify_{get,put}_sb_watchers() to better describes the counter. Increment the counter at the end of fsnotify_attach_connector_to_object() if connector was attached instead of decrementing it on race to connect. This is fine, because fsnotify_delete_sb() cannot be running in parallel to fsnotify_attach_connector_to_object() which requires a reference to a filesystem object. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20240317184154.1200192-2-amir73il@gmail.com>

fsnotify: optimize the case of no parent watcher

2024-01-24T15:26:03+00:00

If parent inode is not watching, check for the event in masks of sb/mount/inode masks early to optimize out most of the code in __fsnotify_parent() and avoid calling fsnotify(). Jens has reported that this optimization improves BW and IOPS in an io_uring benchmark by more than 10% and reduces perf reported CPU usage. before: + 4.51% io_uring [kernel.vmlinux] [k] fsnotify + 3.67% io_uring [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __fsnotify_parent after: + 2.37% io_uring [kernel.vmlinux] [k] __fsnotify_parent Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Axboe Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/b45bd8ff-5654-4e67-90a6-aad5e6759e0b@kernel.dk/ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Message-Id: <20240116113247.758848-1-amir73il@gmail.com>