49 Commits
Author SHA1 Message Date
Kees Cook 69050f8d6d treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
2026-02-21 01:02:28 -08:00
Lizhi XuandJan Kara cad3f4a22c inotify: Fix possible deadlock in fsnotify_destroy_mark
[Syzbot reported]
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
6.11.0-rc4-syzkaller-00019-gb311c1b497e5 #0 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kswapd0/78 is trying to acquire lock:
ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline]
ffff88801b8d8930 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578

but task is already holding lock:
ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6841 [inline]
ffffffff8ea2fd60 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: kswapd+0xbb4/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}-{0:0}:
       ...
       kmem_cache_alloc_noprof+0x3d/0x2a0 mm/slub.c:4044
       inotify_new_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:599 [inline]
       inotify_update_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:647 [inline]
       __do_sys_inotify_add_watch fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:786 [inline]
       __se_sys_inotify_add_watch+0x72e/0x1070 fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c:729
       do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
       do_syscall_64+0xf3/0x230 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

-> #0 (&group->mark_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}:
       ...
       __mutex_lock+0x136/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752
       fsnotify_group_lock include/linux/fsnotify_backend.h:270 [inline]
       fsnotify_destroy_mark+0x38/0x3c0 fs/notify/mark.c:578
       fsnotify_destroy_marks+0x14a/0x660 fs/notify/mark.c:934
       fsnotify_inoderemove include/linux/fsnotify.h:264 [inline]
       dentry_unlink_inode+0x2e0/0x430 fs/dcache.c:403
       __dentry_kill+0x20d/0x630 fs/dcache.c:610
       shrink_kill+0xa9/0x2c0 fs/dcache.c:1055
       shrink_dentry_list+0x2c0/0x5b0 fs/dcache.c:1082
       prune_dcache_sb+0x10f/0x180 fs/dcache.c:1163
       super_cache_scan+0x34f/0x4b0 fs/super.c:221
       do_shrink_slab+0x701/0x1160 mm/shrinker.c:435
       shrink_slab+0x1093/0x14d0 mm/shrinker.c:662
       shrink_one+0x43b/0x850 mm/vmscan.c:4815
       shrink_many mm/vmscan.c:4876 [inline]
       lru_gen_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:4954 [inline]
       shrink_node+0x3799/0x3de0 mm/vmscan.c:5934
       kswapd_shrink_node mm/vmscan.c:6762 [inline]
       balance_pgdat mm/vmscan.c:6954 [inline]
       kswapd+0x1bcd/0x35a0 mm/vmscan.c:7223

[Analysis]
The problem is that inotify_new_watch() is using GFP_KERNEL to allocate
new watches under group->mark_mutex, however if dentry reclaim races
with unlinking of an inode, it can end up dropping the last dentry reference
for an unlinked inode resulting in removal of fsnotify mark from reclaim
context which wants to acquire group->mark_mutex as well.

This scenario shows that all notification groups are in principle prone
to this kind of a deadlock (previously, we considered only fanotify and
dnotify to be problematic for other reasons) so make sure all
allocations under group->mark_mutex happen with GFP_NOFS.

Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+c679f13773f295d2da53@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=c679f13773f295d2da53
Signed-off-by: Lizhi Xu <lizhi.xu@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240927143642.2369508-1-lizhi.xu@windriver.com
2024-10-02 15:14:29 +02:00
Amir GoldsteinandJan Kara 43b245a788 fsnotify: create helpers for group mark_mutex lock
Create helpers to take and release the group mark_mutex lock.

Define a flag FSNOTIFY_GROUP_NOFS in fsnotify_group that determines
if the mark_mutex lock is fs reclaim safe or not.  If not safe, the
lock helpers take the lock and disable direct fs reclaim.

In that case we annotate the mutex with a different lockdep class to
express to lockdep that an allocation of mark of an fs reclaim safe group
may take the group lock of another "NOFS" group to evict inodes.

For now, converted only the callers in common code and no backend
defines the NOFS flag.  It is intended to be set by fanotify for
evictable marks support.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422120327.3459282-7-amir73il@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321112310.vpr7oxro2xkz5llh@quack3.lan/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2022-04-25 14:37:22 +02:00
Amir GoldsteinandJan Kara 867a448d58 fsnotify: pass flags argument to fsnotify_alloc_group()
Add flags argument to fsnotify_alloc_group(), define and use the flag
FSNOTIFY_GROUP_USER in inotify and fanotify instead of the helper
fsnotify_alloc_user_group() to indicate user allocation.

Although the flag FSNOTIFY_GROUP_USER is currently not used after group
allocation, we store the flags argument in the group struct for future
use of other group flags.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220422120327.3459282-5-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2022-04-25 14:37:12 +02:00
Amir GoldsteinandJan Kara ad69cd9972 fsnotify: clarify object type argument
In preparation for separating object type from iterator type, rename
some 'type' arguments in functions to 'obj_type' and remove the unused
interface to clear marks by object type mask.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211129201537.1932819-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-12-15 14:04:03 +01:00
Gabriel Krisman BertaziandJan Kara 330ae77d2a fsnotify: Pass group argument to free_event
For group-wide mempool backed events, like FS_ERROR, the free_event
callback will need to reference the group's mempool to free the memory.
Wire that argument into the current callers.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025192746.66445-13-krisman@collabora.com
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-10-27 12:34:18 +02:00
Amir GoldsteinandJan Kara 5b8fea65d1 fanotify: configurable limits via sysfs
fanotify has some hardcoded limits. The only APIs to escape those limits
are FAN_UNLIMITED_QUEUE and FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Allow finer grained tuning of the system limits via sysfs tunables under
/proc/sys/fs/fanotify, similar to tunables under /proc/sys/fs/inotify,
with some minor differences.

- max_queued_events - global system tunable for group queue size limit.
  Like the inotify tunable with the same name, it defaults to 16384 and
  applies on initialization of a new group.

- max_user_marks - user ns tunable for marks limit per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_watches, on a machine with
  sufficient RAM and it defaults to 1048576 in init userns and can be
  further limited per containing user ns.

- max_user_groups - user ns tunable for number of groups per user.
  Like the inotify tunable named max_user_instances, it defaults to 128
  in init userns and can be further limited per containing user ns.

The slightly different tunable names used for fanotify are derived from
the "group" and "mark" terminology used in the fanotify man pages and
throughout the code.

Considering the fact that the default value for max_user_instances was
increased in kernel v5.10 from 8192 to 1048576, leaving the legacy
fanotify limit of 8192 marks per group in addition to the max_user_marks
limit makes little sense, so the per group marks limit has been removed.

Note that when a group is initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS, its own
marks are not accounted in the per user marks account, so in effect the
limit of max_user_marks is only for the collection of groups that are
not initialized with FAN_UNLIMITED_MARKS.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210304112921.3996419-2-amir73il@gmail.com
Suggested-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-03-16 16:49:31 +01:00
Shakeel ButtandJan Kara ac7b79fd19 inotify, memcg: account inotify instances to kmemcg
Currently the fs sysctl inotify/max_user_instances is used to limit the
number of inotify instances on the system. For systems running multiple
workloads, the per-user namespace sysctl max_inotify_instances can be
used to further partition inotify instances. However there is no easy
way to set a sensible system level max limit on inotify instances and
further partition it between the workloads. It is much easier to charge
the underlying resource (i.e. memory) behind the inotify instances to
the memcg of the workload and let their memory limits limit the number
of inotify instances they can create.

With inotify instances charged to memcg, the admin can simply set
max_user_instances to INT_MAX and let the memcg limits of the jobs limit
their inotify instances.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201220044608.1258123-1-shakeelb@google.com
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2021-01-05 14:42:54 +01:00
Fabian FrederickandJan Kara 191e1656d1 fsnotify: add mutex destroy
Call mutex_destroy() before freeing notification group. This only adds
some additional debug checks when mutex debugging is enabled but still
it may be useful.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200512181803.405832-1-fabf@skynet.be
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2020-05-13 17:14:20 +02:00
Trond MyklebustandJ. Bruce Fields b72679ee89 notify: export symbols for use by the knfsd file cache
The knfsd file cache will need to detect when files are unlinked, so that
it can close the associated cached files. Export a minimal set of notifier
functions to allow it to do so.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
2019-08-19 11:00:39 -04:00
Thomas GleixnerandGreg Kroah-Hartman c82ee6d3be treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 18
Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):

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  it under the terms of the gnu general public license as published by
  the free software foundation either version 2 or at your option any
  later version this program is distributed in the hope that it will
  be useful but without any warranty without even the implied warranty
  of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu
  general public license for more details you should have received a
  copy of the gnu general public license along with this program see
  the file copying if not write to the free software foundation 675
  mass ave cambridge ma 02139 usa

extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier

  GPL-2.0-or-later

has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 52 file(s).

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jilayne Lovejoy <opensource@jilayne.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Winslow <swinslow@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190519154042.342335923@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-05-21 11:28:46 +02:00
Shakeel ButtandLinus Torvalds d46eb14b73 fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcg
Patch series "Directed kmem charging", v8.

The Linux kernel's memory cgroup allows limiting the memory usage of the
jobs running on the system to provide isolation between the jobs.  All
the kernel memory allocated in the context of the job and marked with
__GFP_ACCOUNT will also be included in the memory usage and be limited
by the job's limit.

The kernel memory can only be charged to the memcg of the process in
whose context kernel memory was allocated.  However there are cases
where the allocated kernel memory should be charged to the memcg
different from the current processes's memcg.  This patch series
contains two such concrete use-cases i.e.  fsnotify and buffer_head.

The fsnotify event objects can consume a lot of system memory for large
or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener.  The events
are allocated in the context of the event producer.  However they should
be charged to the event consumer.  Similarly the buffer_head objects can
be allocated in a memcg different from the memcg of the page for which
buffer_head objects are being allocated.

To solve this issue, this patch series introduces mechanism to charge
kernel memory to a given memcg.  In case of fsnotify events, the memcg
of the consumer can be used for charging and for buffer_head, the memcg
of the page can be charged.  For directed charging, the caller can use
the scope API memalloc_[un]use_memcg() to specify the memcg to charge
for all the __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within the scope.

This patch (of 2):

A lot of memory can be consumed by the events generated for the huge or
unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener.  This can cause
system level memory pressure or OOMs.  So, it's better to account the
fsnotify kmem caches to the memcg of the listener.

However the listener can be in a different memcg than the memcg of the
producer and these allocations happen in the context of the event
producer.  This patch introduces remote memcg charging API which the
producer can use to charge the allocations to the memcg of the listener.

There are seven fsnotify kmem caches and among them allocations from
dnotify_struct_cache, dnotify_mark_cache, fanotify_mark_cache and
inotify_inode_mark_cachep happens in the context of syscall from the
listener.  So, SLAB_ACCOUNT is enough for these caches.

The objects from fsnotify_mark_connector_cachep are not accounted as
they are small compared to the notification mark or events and it is
unclear whom to account connector to since it is shared by all events
attached to the inode.

The allocations from the event caches happen in the context of the event
producer.  For such caches we will need to remote charge the allocations
to the listener's memcg.  Thus we save the memcg reference in the
fsnotify_group structure of the listener.

This patch has also moved the members of fsnotify_group to keep the size
same, at least for 64 bit build, even with additional member by filling
the holes.

[shakeelb@google.com: use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT rather than open-coding it]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702215439.211597-1-shakeelb@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627191250.209150-2-shakeelb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-17 16:20:30 -07:00
Amir GoldsteinandJan Kara d6f7b98bc8 fsnotify: use type id to identify connector object type
An fsnotify_mark_connector is referencing a single type of object
(either inode or vfsmount). Instead of storing a type mask in
connector->flags, store a single type id in connector->type to
identify the type of object.

When a connector object is detached from the object, its type is set
to FSNOTIFY_OBJ_TYPE_DETACHED and this object is not going to be
reused.

The function fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group() is the only place where
type mask was used, so use type flags instead of type id to this
function.

This change is going to be more convenient when adding a new object
type (super block).

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18 14:58:22 +02:00
Elena ReshetovaandJan Kara 7761daa6a1 fsnotify: convert fsnotify_group.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference
counters with the following properties:
 - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set()
 - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero
 - once counter reaches zero, its further
   increments aren't allowed
 - counter schema uses basic atomic operations
   (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.)

Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided
refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows
and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows
can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable.

The variable fsnotify_group.refcnt is used as pure reference counter.
Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations.

Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31 17:54:56 +01:00
Jan Kara 2e37c6ca8d fsnotify: Remove fsnotify_detach_group_marks()
The function is already mostly contained in what
fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group() does. Just update that function to not
select marks when all of them should be destroyed and remove
fsnotify_detach_group_marks().

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-04-10 17:37:36 +02:00
Jan Kara abc77577a6 fsnotify: Provide framework for dropping SRCU lock in ->handle_event
fanotify wants to drop fsnotify_mark_srcu lock when waiting for response
from userspace so that the whole notification subsystem is not blocked
during that time. This patch provides a framework for safely getting
mark reference for a mark found in the object list which pins the mark
in that list. We can then drop fsnotify_mark_srcu, wait for userspace
response and then safely continue iteration of the object list once we
reaquire fsnotify_mark_srcu.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-04-10 17:37:36 +02:00
Jan Kara f09b04a03e fsnotify: Remove special handling of mark destruction on group shutdown
Currently we queue all marks for destruction on group shutdown and then
destroy them from fsnotify_destroy_group() instead from a worker thread
which is the usual path. However worker can already be processing some
list of marks to destroy so this does not make 100% all marks are really
destroyed by the time group is shut down. This isn't a big problem as
each mark holds group reference and thus group stays partially alive
until all marks are really freed but there's no point in complicating
our lives - just wait for the delayed work to be finished instead.

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-04-10 17:37:36 +02:00
Jan KaraandLinus Torvalds c21dbe20f6 fsnotify: convert notification_mutex to a spinlock
notification_mutex is used to protect the list of pending events.  As such
there's no reason to use a sleeping lock for it.  Convert it to a
spinlock.

[jack@suse.cz: fixed version]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474031567-1831-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-5-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-10-07 18:46:26 -07:00
Jan KaraandLinus Torvalds 12703dbfeb fsnotify: add a way to stop queueing events on group shutdown
Implement a function that can be called when a group is being shutdown
to stop queueing new events to the group.  Fanotify will use this.

Fixes: 5838d4442b ("fanotify: fix double free of pending permission events")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473797711-14111-2-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-09-19 15:36:17 -07:00
Jan KaraandLinus Torvalds 35e481761c fsnotify: avoid spurious EMFILE errors from inotify_init()
Inotify instance is destroyed when all references to it are dropped.
That not only means that the corresponding file descriptor needs to be
closed but also that all corresponding instance marks are freed (as each
mark holds a reference to the inotify instance).  However marks are
freed only after SRCU period ends which can take some time and thus if
user rapidly creates and frees inotify instances, number of existing
inotify instances can exceed max_user_instances limit although from user
point of view there is always at most one existing instance.  Thus
inotify_init() returns EMFILE error which is hard to justify from user
point of view.  This problem is exposed by LTP inotify06 testcase on
some machines.

We fix the problem by making sure all group marks are properly freed
while destroying inotify instance.  We wait for SRCU period to end in
that path anyway since we have to make sure there is no event being
added to the instance while we are tearing down the instance.  So it
takes only some plumbing to allow for marks to be destroyed in that path
as well and not from a dedicated work item.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Tested-by: Xiaoguang Wang <wangxg.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-05-19 19:12:14 -07:00
Andrew MortonandLinus Torvalds cafbaae8af fs/notify/group.c: make fsnotify_final_destroy_group() static
No callers outside this file.

Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-10-09 22:25:45 -04:00
Jan Kara ff57cd5863 fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type
Commit 7053aee26a "fsnotify: do not share events between notification
groups" used overflow event statically allocated in a group with the
size of the generic notification event. This causes problems because
some code looks at type specific parts of event structure and gets
confused by a random data it sees there and causes crashes.

Fix the problem by allocating overflow event with type corresponding to
the group type so code cannot get confused.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2014-02-25 11:18:06 +01:00
Jan KaraandLinus Torvalds 7053aee26a fsnotify: do not share events between notification groups
Currently fsnotify framework creates one event structure for each
notification event and links this event into all interested notification
groups.  This is done so that we save memory when several notification
groups are interested in the event.  However the need for event
structure shared between inotify & fanotify bloats the event structure
so the result is often higher memory consumption.

Another problem is that fsnotify framework keeps path references with
outstanding events so that fanotify can return open file descriptors
with its events.  This has the undesirable effect that filesystem cannot
be unmounted while there are outstanding events - a regression for
inotify compared to a situation before it was converted to fsnotify
framework.  For fanotify this problem is hard to avoid and users of
fanotify should kind of expect this behavior when they ask for file
descriptors from notified files.

This patch changes fsnotify and its users to create separate event
structure for each group.  This allows for much simpler code (~400 lines
removed by this patch) and also smaller event structures.  For example
on 64-bit system original struct fsnotify_event consumes 120 bytes, plus
additional space for file name, additional 24 bytes for second and each
subsequent group linking the event, and additional 32 bytes for each
inotify group for private data.  After the conversion inotify event
consumes 48 bytes plus space for file name which is considerably less
memory unless file names are long and there are several groups
interested in the events (both of which are uncommon).  Fanotify event
fits in 56 bytes after the conversion (fanotify doesn't care about file
names so its events don't have to have it allocated).  A win unless
there are four or more fanotify groups interested in the event.

The conversion also solves the problem with unmount when only inotify is
used as we don't have to grab path references for inotify events.

[hughd@google.com: fanotify: fix corruption preventing startup]
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-01-21 16:19:41 -08:00
Eric Paris 0a6b6bd591 fsnotify: make fasync generic for both inotify and fanotify
inotify is supposed to support async signal notification when information
is available on the inotify fd.  This patch moves that support to generic
fsnotify functions so it can be used by all notification mechanisms.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 13:44:36 -05:00
Lino SanfilippoandEric Paris 986ab09807 fsnotify: use a mutex instead of a spinlock to protect a groups mark list
Replaces the groups mark_lock spinlock with a mutex. Using a mutex instead
of a spinlock results in more flexibility (i.e it allows to sleep while the
lock is held).

Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
2012-12-11 13:29:46 -05:00