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Author SHA1 Message Date
Ethan Zhao
d82d54af7b kobject: WARN as tip when call kobject_get() to a kobject not initialized
call kobject_get() to kojbect that is not initalized or released will only
leave following like call trace to us:

-----------[ cut here ]------------
[   54.545816] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 213 at include/linux/kref.h:47
kobject_get+0x41/0x50()
[   54.642595] Modules linked in: i2c_i801(+) mfd_core shpchp(+)
acpi_cpufreq(+) edac_core ioatdma(+) xfs libcrc32c ast syscopyarea ixgbe
sysfillrect sysimgblt sr_mod sd_mod drm_kms_helper igb mdio cdrom e1000e ahci
dca ttm libahci uas drm i2c_algo_bit ptp megaraid_sas libata usb_storage
i2c_core pps_core dm_mirror dm_region_hash dm_log dm_mod
[   55.007264] CPU: 0 PID: 213 Comm: kworker/0:2 Not tainted
3.18.5
[   55.099970] Hardware name: Oracle Corporation SUN FIRE X4170 M2 SERVER
   /ASSY,MOTHERBOARD,X4170, BIOS 08120104 05/08/2012
[   55.239736] Workqueue: kacpi_notify acpi_os_execute_deferred
[   55.308598]  0000000000000000 00000000bd730b61 ffff88046742baf8
ffffffff816b7edb
[   55.398305]  0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff88046742bb38
ffffffff81078ae1
[   55.488040]  ffff88046742bbd8 ffff8806706b3000 0000000000000292
0000000000000000
[   55.577776] Call Trace:
[   55.608228]  [<ffffffff816b7edb>] dump_stack+0x46/0x58
[   55.670895]  [<ffffffff81078ae1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xa0
[   55.743952]  [<ffffffff81078bfa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
[   55.814929]  [<ffffffff8130d0d1>] kobject_get+0x41/0x50
[   55.878654]  [<ffffffff8153e955>] cpufreq_cpu_get+0x75/0xc0
[   55.946528]  [<ffffffff8153f37e>] cpufreq_update_policy+0x2e/0x1f0

The above issue was casued by a race condition, if there is a WARN in
kobject_get() of the kobject is not initialized, that would save us much
time to debug it.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-03-25 15:26:49 +01:00
Pankaj Dubey
41fb96a4b6 kobject: fix NULL pointer derefernce in kobj_child_ns_ops
We will hit NULL pointer dereference if we call
platform_device_register_simple or platform_device_add at very early
stage. I have observed following crash when called platform_device_add
from "init_irq" hook of machine_desc. This patch fixes this issue and
let system handle this case gracefully instead of kernel panic.

[0.000000] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000c
[0.000000] pgd = c0004000
[0.000000] [0000000c] *pgd=00000000
[0.000000] Internal error: Oops: 5 [#1] PREEMPT ARM
[0.000000] Modules linked in:
[0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Tainted: G        W 3.17.0-rc6-00198-ga1603f1-dirty #319
[0.000000] task: c05b23f0 ti: c05a8000 task.ti: c05a8000
[0.000000] PC is at kobject_namespace+0x18/0x58
[0.000000] LR is at kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec
[snip]
[0.000000] [<c01b1df0>] (kobject_namespace) from [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal+0x90/0x2ec)
[0.000000] [<c01b2338>] (kobject_add_internal) from [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add+0x4c/0x98)
[0.000000] [<c01b2728>] (kobject_add) from [<c0226274>] (device_add+0xe8/0x51c)
[0.000000] [<c0226274>] (device_add) from [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add+0xb4/0x214)
[0.000000] [<c0229c70>] (platform_device_add) from [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full+0xb8/0xdc)
[0.000000] [<c022a338>] (platform_device_register_full) from [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq+0x90/0x9c)
[0.000000] [<c0570214>] (exynos_init_irq) from [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ+0x2c/0x78)
[0.000000] [<c056c18c>] (init_IRQ) from [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel+0x22c/0x378)
[0.000000] [<c0569a54>] (start_kernel) from [<40008070>] (0x40008070)
[0.000000] Code: e590000c e3500000 0a00000e e5903014 (e593300c)

Signed-off-by: Pankaj Dubey <pankaj.dubey@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-11-07 10:52:19 -08:00
Tejun Heo
fa4cd451cc sysfs, kobject: add sysfs wrapper for kernfs_enable_ns()
Currently, kobject is invoking kernfs_enable_ns() directly.  This is
fine now as sysfs and kernfs are enabled and disabled together.  If
sysfs is disabled, kernfs_enable_ns() is switched to dummy
implementation too and everything is fine; however, kernfs will soon
have its own config option CONFIG_KERNFS and !SYSFS && KERNFS will be
possible, which can make kobject call into non-dummy
kernfs_enable_ns() with NULL kernfs_node pointers leading to an oops.

Introduce sysfs_enable_ns() which is a wrapper around
kernfs_enable_ns() so that it can be made a noop depending only on
CONFIG_SYSFS regardless of the planned CONFIG_KERNFS.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-02-07 16:08:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e7651b819e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
 "This is a pretty big pull, and most of these changes have been
  floating in btrfs-next for a long time.  Filipe's properties work is a
  cool building block for inheriting attributes like compression down on
  a per inode basis.

  Jeff Mahoney kicked in code to export filesystem info into sysfs.

  Otherwise, lots of performance improvements, cleanups and bug fixes.

  Looks like there are still a few other small pending incrementals, but
  I wanted to get the bulk of this in first"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (149 commits)
  Btrfs: fix spin_unlock in check_ref_cleanup
  Btrfs: setup inode location during btrfs_init_inode_locked
  Btrfs: don't use ram_bytes for uncompressed inline items
  Btrfs: fix btrfs_search_slot_for_read backwards iteration
  Btrfs: do not export ulist functions
  Btrfs: rework ulist with list+rb_tree
  Btrfs: fix memory leaks on walking backrefs failure
  Btrfs: fix send file hole detection leading to data corruption
  Btrfs: add a reschedule point in btrfs_find_all_roots()
  Btrfs: make send's file extent item search more efficient
  Btrfs: fix to catch all errors when resolving indirect ref
  Btrfs: fix protection between walking backrefs and root deletion
  btrfs: fix warning while merging two adjacent extents
  Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send
  btrfs: undo sysfs when open_ctree() fails
  Btrfs: fix snprintf usage by send's gen_unique_name
  btrfs: fix defrag 32-bit integer overflow
  btrfs: sysfs: list the NO_HOLES feature
  btrfs: sysfs: don't show reserved incompat feature
  btrfs: call permission checks earlier in ioctls and return EPERM
  ...
2014-01-30 20:08:20 -08:00
Jeff Mahoney
29dfe2dc0e kobject: export kobj_sysfs_ops
struct kobj_attribute implements the baseline attribute functionality
that can be used all over the place. We should export the ops associated
with it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
2014-01-28 13:19:24 -08:00
Bart Van Assche
9705710e40 kobject: Fix source code comment spelling
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-08 15:36:18 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
eb4c69033f Revert "kobject: introduce kobj_completion"
This reverts commit eee0316497.

Jeff writes:
	I have no objections to reverting it. There were concerns from
	Al Viro that it'd be tough to get right by callers and I had
	assumed it got dropped after that. I had planned on using it in
	my btrfs sysfs exports patchset but came up with a better way.

Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-01-04 19:56:40 -08:00
Tejun Heo
324a56e16e kernfs: s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/ and rename its friends accordingly
kernfs has just been separated out from sysfs and we're already in
full conflict mode.  Nothing can make the situation any worse.  Let's
take the chance to name things properly.

This patch performs the following renames.

* s/sysfs_elem_dir/kernfs_elem_dir/
* s/sysfs_elem_symlink/kernfs_elem_symlink/
* s/sysfs_elem_attr/kernfs_elem_file/
* s/sysfs_dirent/kernfs_node/
* s/sd/kn/ in kernfs proper
* s/parent_sd/parent/
* s/target_sd/target/
* s/dir_sd/parent/
* s/to_sysfs_dirent()/rb_to_kn()/
* misc renames of local vars when they conflict with the above

Because md, mic and gpio dig into sysfs details, this patch ends up
modifying them.  All are sysfs_dirent renames and trivial.  While we
can avoid these by introducing a dummy wrapping struct sysfs_dirent
around kernfs_node, given the limited usage outside kernfs and sysfs
proper, I don't think such workaround is called for.

This patch is strictly rename only and doesn't introduce any
functional difference.

- mic / gpio renames were missing.  Spotted by kbuild test robot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-11 15:28:36 -08:00
Maurizio Lombardi
020d30f17f kobject: fix memory leak in kobject_set_name_vargs
If the call to kvasprintf fails then the old name of the object will be leaked,
this patch fixes the bug by restoring the old name before returning ENOMEM.

Signed-off-by: Maurizio Lombardi <mlombard@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-08 18:19:15 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
35a5fe695b kobject: remove kset from sysfs immediately in kset_unregister()
There's no "unlink from sysfs" interface for ksets, so I think callers of
kset_unregister() expect the kset to be removed from sysfs immediately,
without waiting for the last reference to be released.

This patch makes the sysfs removal happen immediately, so the caller may
create a new kset with the same name as soon as kset_unregister() returns.
Without this, every caller has to call "kobject_del(&kset->kobj)" first
unless it knows it will never create a new kset with the same name.

This sometimes shows up on module unload and reload, where the reload fails
because it tries to create a kobject with the same name as one from the
original load that still exists.  CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y makes this
problem easier to hit.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-07 21:20:11 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
89c86a64cd kobject: delay kobject release for random time
When CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE=y, delay kobject release functions for a
random time between 1 and 8 seconds, which effectively changes the order in
which they're called.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-12-07 21:14:13 -08:00
Tejun Heo
93b2b8e4aa sysfs, kernfs: introduce kernfs_create_dir[_ns]()
Introduce kernfs interface to manipulate a directory which takes and
returns sysfs_dirents.

create_dir() is renamed to kernfs_create_dir_ns() and its argumantes
and return value are updated.  create_dir() usages are replaced with
kernfs_create_dir_ns() and sysfs_create_subdir() usages are replaced
with kernfs_create_dir().  Dup warnings are handled explicitly by
sysfs users of the kernfs interface.

sysfs_enable_ns() is renamed to kernfs_enable_ns().

This patch doesn't introduce any behavior changes.

v2: Dummy implementation for !CONFIG_SYSFS updated to return -ENOSYS.

v3: kernfs_enable_ns() added.

v4: Refreshed on top of "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling, take #2"
    so that this patch removes sysfs_enable_ns().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-29 17:20:13 -08:00
Tejun Heo
c84a3b2779 sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling, take #2
The way namespace tags are implemented in sysfs is more complicated
than necessary.  As each tag is a pointer value and required to be
non-NULL under a namespace enabled parent, there's no need to record
separately what type each tag is.  If multiple namespace types are
needed, which currently aren't, we can simply compare the tag to a set
of allowed tags in the superblock assuming that the tags, being
pointers, won't have the same value across multiple types.

This patch rips out kobj_ns_type handling from sysfs.  sysfs now has
an enable switch to turn on namespace under a node.  If enabled, all
children are required to have non-NULL namespace tags and filtered
against the super_block's tag.

kobject namespace determination is now performed in
lib/kobject.c::create_dir() making sysfs_read_ns_type() unnecessary.
The sanity checks are also moved.  create_dir() is restructured to
ease such addition.  This removes most kobject namespace knowledge
from sysfs proper which will enable proper separation and layering of
sysfs.

This is the second try.  The first one was cb26a31157 ("sysfs: drop
kobj_ns_type handling") which tried to automatically enable namespace
if there are children with non-NULL namespace tags; however, it was
broken for symlinks as they should inherit the target's tag iff
namespace is enabled in the parent.  This led to namespace filtering
enabled incorrectly for wireless net class devices through phy80211
symlinks and thus network configuration failure.  a1212d278c
("Revert "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling"") reverted the commit.

This shouldn't introduce any behavior changes, for real.

v2: Dummy implementation of sysfs_enable_ns() for !CONFIG_SYSFS was
    missing and caused build failure.  Reported by kbuild test robot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-11-27 13:01:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a1212d278c Revert "sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling"
This reverts commit cb26a31157.

It mysteriously causes NetworkManager to not find the wireless device
for me.  As far as I can tell, Tejun *meant* for this commit to not make
any semantic changes, but there clearly are some.  So revert it, taking
into account some of the calling convention changes that happened in
this area in subsequent commits.

Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-07 20:47:28 +09:00
Fengguang Wu
1461c5be7b kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release
Useful for locating buggy drivers on kernel oops.

It may add dozens of new lines to boot dmesg. DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is
hopefully only enabled in debug kernels (like maybe the Fedora rawhide
one, or at developers), so being a bit more verbose is likely ok.

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-11 16:30:10 -07:00
Tejun Heo
26ea12dec0 kobject: grab an extra reference on kobject->sd to allow duplicate deletes
sysfs currently has a rather weird behavior regarding removals.  A
directory removal would delete all files directly under it but
wouldn't recurse into subdirectories, which, while a bit inconsistent,
seems to make sense at the first glance as each directory is
supposedly associated with a kobject and each kobject can take care of
the directory deletion; however, this doesn't really hold as we have
groups which can be directories without a kobject associated with it
and require explicit deletions.

We're in the process of separating out sysfs from kboject / driver
core and want a consistent behavior.  A removal should delete either
only the specified node or everything under it.  I think it is helpful
to support recursive atomic removal and later patches will implement
it.

Such change means that a sysfs_dirent associated with kobject may be
deleted before the kobject itself is removed if one of its ancestor
gets removed before it.  As sysfs_remove_dir() puts the base ref, we
may end up with dangling pointer on descendants.  This can be solved
by holding an extra reference on the sd from kobject.

Acquire an extra reference on the associated sysfs_dirent on directory
creation and put it after removal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-10-03 16:38:52 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
88502b9c0a Merge 3.12-rc3 into driver-core-next
We want the driver core and sysfs fixes in here to make merges and
development easier.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-29 18:29:23 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
730d7d3398 sysfs: Allow mounting without CONFIG_NET
In kobj_ns_current_may_mount the default should be to allow the mount.
The test is only for a single kobj_ns_type at a time, and unless there
is a reason to prevent it the mounting sysfs should be allowed.
Subsystems that are not registered can't have are not involved so can't
have a reason to prevent mounting sysfs.

This is a bug-fix to commit 7dc5dbc879 ("sysfs: Restrict mounting
sysfs") that came in via the userns tree during the 3.12 merge window.

Reported-and-tested-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-27 09:18:39 -07:00
Jeff Mahoney
eee0316497 kobject: introduce kobj_completion
A common way to handle kobject lifetimes in embedded in objects with
different lifetime rules is to pair the kobject with a struct completion.

This introduces a kobj_completion structure that can be used in place
of the pairing, along with several convenience functions for
initialization, release, and put-and-wait.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 16:17:33 -07:00
Tejun Heo
cb26a31157 sysfs: drop kobj_ns_type handling
The way namespace tags are implemented in sysfs is more complicated
than necessary.  As each tag is a pointer value and required to be
non-NULL under a namespace enabled parent, there's no need to record
separately what type each tag is or where namespace is enabled.

If multiple namespace types are needed, which currently aren't, we can
simply compare the tag to a set of allowed tags in the superblock
assuming that the tags, being pointers, won't have the same value
across multiple types.  Also, whether to filter by namespace tag or
not can be trivially determined by whether the node has any tagged
children or not.

This patch rips out kobj_ns_type handling from sysfs.  sysfs no longer
cares whether specific type of namespace is enabled or not.  If a
sysfs_dirent has a non-NULL tag, the parent is marked as needing
namespace filtering and the value is tested against the allowed set of
tags for the superblock (currently only one but increasing this number
isn't difficult) and the sysfs_dirent is ignored if it doesn't match.

This removes most kobject namespace knowledge from sysfs proper which
will enable proper separation and layering of sysfs.  The namespace
sanity checks in fs/sysfs/dir.c are replaced by the new sanity check
in kobject_namespace().  As this is the only place ktype->namespace()
is called for sysfs, this doesn't weaken the sanity check
significantly.  I omitted converting the sanity check in
sysfs_do_create_link_sd().  While the check can be shifted to upper
layer, mistakes there are well contained and should be easily visible
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 15:30:22 -07:00
Tejun Heo
e34ff49061 sysfs: remove ktype->namespace() invocations in directory code
For some unrecognizable reason, namespace information is communicated
to sysfs through ktype->namespace() callback when there's *nothing*
which needs the use of a callback.  The whole sequence of operations
is completely synchronous and sysfs operations simply end up calling
back into the layer which just invoked it in order to find out the
namespace information, which is completely backwards, obfuscates
what's going on and unnecessarily tangles two separate layers.

This patch doesn't remove ktype->namespace() but shifts its handling
to kobject layer.  We probably want to get rid of the callback in the
long term.

This patch adds an explicit param to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir()
and renames them to sysfs_{create|rename|move}_dir_ns(), respectively.
ktype->namespace() invocations are moved to the calling sites of the
above functions.  A new helper kboject_namespace() is introduced which
directly tests kobj_ns_type_operations->type which should give the
same result as testing sysfs_fs_type(parent_sd) and returns @kobj's
namespace tag as necessary.  kobject_namespace() is extern as it will
be used from another file in the following patches.

This patch should be an equivalent conversion without any functional
difference.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-09-26 15:30:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c7c4591db6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace
Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
 "This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug
  fixes.

  The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions.  nsown_capable
  is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be
  considered.  A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally
  tracked and fixed.  A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace
  infrastructure.

  Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace
  capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows
  the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  userns:  Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy
  capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
  pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD
  userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
  namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on.
  pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup
  sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
  userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
  vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt between namespaces
  kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code.
  proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem
  vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users
2013-09-07 14:35:32 -07:00
Eric W. Biederman
7dc5dbc879 sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights
over the net namespace.  The principle here is if you create or have
capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with
what other people have mounted.

Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call,
perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers,
this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves
the existing sysfs abstractions.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-08-28 21:35:14 -07:00
Russell King
c817a67ecb kobject: delayed kobject release: help find buggy drivers
Implement debugging for kobject release functions.  kobjects are
reference counted, so the drop of the last reference to them is not
predictable. However, the common case is for the last reference to be
the kobject's removal from a subsystem, which results in the release
function being immediately called.

This can hide subtle bugs, which can occur when another thread holds a
reference to the kobject at the same time that a kobject is removed.
This results in the release method being delayed.

In order to make these kinds of problems more visible, the following
patch implements a delayed release; this has the effect that the
release function will be out of order with respect to the removal of
the kobject in the same manner that it would be if a reference was
being held.

This provides us with an easy way to allow driver writers to debug
their drivers and fix otherwise hidden problems.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-25 15:39:04 -07:00
Kees Cook
b7165ebbf0 kobject: sanitize argument for format string
Unlike kobject_set_name(), the kset_create_and_add() interface does not
provide a way to use format strings, so make sure that the interface
cannot be abused accidentally. It looks like all current callers use
static strings, so there's no existing flaw.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-06-07 16:05:50 -07:00