mm: shmem_zero_setup skip security check and lockdep conflict with XFS

It appears that, at some point last year, XFS made directory handling
changes which bring it into lockdep conflict with shmem_zero_setup():
it is surprising that mmap() can clone an inode while holding mmap_sem,
but that has been so for many years.

Since those few lockdep traces that I've seen all implicated selinux,
I'm hoping that we can use the __shmem_file_setup(,,,S_PRIVATE) which
v3.13's commit c7277090927a ("security: shmem: implement kernel private
shmem inodes") introduced to avoid LSM checks on kernel-internal inodes:
the mmap("/dev/zero") cloned inode is indeed a kernel-internal detail.

This also covers the !CONFIG_SHMEM use of ramfs to support /dev/zero
(and MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS).  I thought there were also drivers
which cloned inode in mmap(), but if so, I cannot locate them now.

Reported-and-tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Daniel Wagner <wagi@monom.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Morten Stevens <mstevens@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/shmem.c b/mm/shmem.c
index de981370fbc5..47d536e59fc0 100644
--- a/mm/shmem.c
+++ b/mm/shmem.c
@@ -3401,7 +3401,13 @@ int shmem_zero_setup(struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 	struct file *file;
 	loff_t size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start;
 
-	file = shmem_file_setup("dev/zero", size, vma->vm_flags);
+	/*
+	 * Cloning a new file under mmap_sem leads to a lock ordering conflict
+	 * between XFS directory reading and selinux: since this file is only
+	 * accessible to the user through its mapping, use S_PRIVATE flag to
+	 * bypass file security, in the same way as shmem_kernel_file_setup().
+	 */
+	file = __shmem_file_setup("dev/zero", size, vma->vm_flags, S_PRIVATE);
 	if (IS_ERR(file))
 		return PTR_ERR(file);