Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.
A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.
Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.
Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives. Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.
This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work. While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases. The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.
This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.
After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module. The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions. In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted. In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Pass mount flags to sget() so that it can use them in initialising a new
superblock before the set function is called. They could also be passed to the
compare function.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
New field of struct super_block - ->s_max_links. Maximal allowed
value of ->i_nlink or 0; in the latter case all checks still need
to be done in ->link/->mkdir/->rename instances. Note that this
limit applies both to directoris and to non-directories.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
of_platform.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
device_cgroup.h: delete needless include <linux/module.h>
net: sch_generic remove redundant use of <linux/module.h>
net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need <linux/module.h>
...
Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
- drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
- drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
- drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
- include/linux/dmaengine.h
Some files were using the complete module.h infrastructure without
actually including the header at all. Fix them up in advance so
once the implicit presence is removed, we won't get failures like this:
CC [M] fs/nfsd/nfssvc.o
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c: In function 'nfsd_create_serv':
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: 'THIS_MODULE' undeclared (first use in this function)
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:335: error: for each function it appears in.)
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c: In function 'nfsd':
fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:555: error: implicit declaration of function 'module_put_and_exit'
make[3]: *** [fs/nfsd/nfssvc.o] Error 1
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
In particular, s_freeing_list needs to be initialized early, since it is
used on some of the error paths when mounts fail. The mapping inode,
for example, would be initialized and then free'd on an error path
before s_freeing_list was initialized, but the inode drop operation
needs the s_freeing_list to be set up.
Normally you'd never see this, because not only is logfs fairly rare,
but a successful mount will never have any issues.
Reported-by: werner <w.landgraf@ru.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
a) switch ->put_device() to logfs_super *
b) actually call it on early failures in logfs_get_sb_device()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
take setting s_bdev/s_mtd/s_devops to callers of logfs_get_sb_device(),
don't bother passing them separately
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
When CONFIG_BLOCK is not enabled:
fs/logfs/super.c:142: error: implicit declaration of function 'bdev_get_queue'
fs/logfs/super.c:142: error: invalid type argument of '->' (have 'int')
Found by Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
There is a typo here. We should test "last" instead of "first".
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Since 32a88aa1 sync() was turned into a NOP for logfs. Worse, sync()
would not return an error, giving the illusion that writeout had
actually happened.
Afaics jffs2 was broken as well.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
It would probably be better to just accept NULL pointers in
mempool_destroy(). But for the current -rc series let's keep things
simple.
This patch was lost in the cracks for a while.
Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com> had to rediscover the problem and
send a similar patch because of it. :(
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Eric W. Biederman
David Howells
Al Viro
Joern Engel
Prasad Joshi
Linus Torvalds
Akinobu Mita
Paul Gortmaker
Dan Carpenter