Anders Blomdell noted in 2010 that Fanotify lost events and provided a
test case. Eric Paris confirmed it was a bug and posted a fix to the
list
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/linux.kernel/RrJfTfyW2BE
but never applied it. Repeated attempts over time to actually get him
to apply it have never had a reply from anyone who has raised it
So apply it anyway
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Reported-by: Anders Blomdell <anders.blomdell@control.lth.se>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@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>
When fanotify_release() is called, there may still be processes waiting for
access permission. Currently only processes for which an event has already been
queued into the groups access list will be woken up. Processes for which no
event has been queued will continue to sleep and thus cause a deadlock when
fsnotify_put_group() is called.
Furthermore there is a race allowing further processes to be waiting on the
access wait queue after wake_up (if they arrive before clear_marks_by_group()
is called).
This patch corrects this by setting a flag to inform processes that the group
is about to be destroyed and thus not to wait for access permission.
[additional changelog from eparis]
Lets think about the 4 relevant code paths from the PoV of the
'operator' 'listener' 'responder' and 'closer'. Where operator is the
process doing an action (like open/read) which could require permission.
Listener is the task (or in this case thread) slated with reading from
the fanotify file descriptor. The 'responder' is the thread responsible
for responding to access requests. 'Closer' is the thread attempting to
close the fanotify file descriptor.
The 'operator' is going to end up in:
fanotify_handle_event()
get_response_from_access()
(THIS BLOCKS WAITING ON USERSPACE)
The 'listener' interesting code path
fanotify_read()
copy_event_to_user()
prepare_for_access_response()
(THIS CREATES AN fanotify_response_event)
The 'responder' code path:
fanotify_write()
process_access_response()
(REMOVE A fanotify_response_event, SET RESPONSE, WAKE UP 'operator')
The 'closer':
fanotify_release()
(SUPPOSED TO CLEAN UP THE REST OF THIS MESS)
What we have today is that in the closer we remove all of the
fanotify_response_events and set a bit so no more response events are
ever created in prepare_for_access_response().
The bug is that we never wake all of the operators up and tell them to
move along. You fix that in fanotify_get_response_from_access(). You
also fix other operators which haven't gotten there yet. So I agree
that's a good fix.
[/additional changelog from eparis]
[remove additional changes to minimize patch size]
[move initialization so it was inside CONFIG_FANOTIFY_PERMISSION]
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify has a very limited number of events it sends on directories. The
usefulness of these events is yet to be seen and still we send them. This
is particularly painful for mount marks where one might receive many of
these useless events. As such this patch will drop events on IS_DIR()
inodes unless they were explictly requested with FAN_ON_DIR.
This means that a mark on a directory without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD or
FAN_ON_DIR is meaningless and will result in no events ever (although it
will still be allowed since detecting it is hard)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify_should_send_event has a test to see if an object is a file or
directory and does not send an event otherwise. The problem is that the
test is actually checking if the object with a mark is a file or directory,
not if the object the event happened on is a file or directory. We should
check the latter.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify currently has no limit on the number of listeners a given user can
have open. This patch limits the total number of listeners per user to
128. This is the same as the inotify default limit.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This reminded me... you have two pr_debugs in fanotify_should_send_event
which output redundant information. Maybe you intended it like that so
it is selectable how much log spam you want, or if not you may want to
apply this patch.
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4 (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c95402 "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).
The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.
Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fanotify currently, when given a vfsmount_mark will look up (if it exists)
the corresponding inode mark. This patch drops that lookup and uses the
mark provided.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
should_send_event() and handle_event() will both need to look up the inode
event if they get a vfsmount event. Lets just pass both at the same time
since we have them both after walking the lists in lockstep.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The change to use srcu and walk the object list rather than the global
fsnotify_group list means that should_send_event is no longer needed for a
number of groups and can be simplified for others. Do that.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify now gets a mark in the should_send_event and handle_event
functions. Rather than look up the mark themselves fanotify should just use
the mark it was handed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
With the change of fsnotify to use srcu walking the marks list instead of
walking the global groups list we now know the mark in question. The code can
send the mark to the group's handling functions and the groups won't have to
find those marks themselves.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file. To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Rather than the horrific void ** argument and such just to pass the
fanotify_merge event back to the caller of fsnotify_add_notify_event() have
those things return an event if it was different than the event suggusted to
be added.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify groups need to respond to events which include permissions types.
To do so groups will send a response using write() on the fanotify_fd they
have open.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This is the backend work needed for fanotify to support the new
FS_OPEN_PERM and FS_ACCESS_PERM fsnotify events. This is done using the
new fsnotify secondary queue. No userspace interface is provided actually
respond to or request these events.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify needs to know the actual event added to queues so it can be
correctly checked for return values from userspace. To do this we need to
pass that information from the merger code back to the main even handling
routine. Currently that information is unused, but it will be.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Each group can define their own notification (and secondary_q) merge
function. Inotify does tail drop, fanotify does matching and drop which
can actually allocate a completely new event. But for fanotify to properly
deal with permissions events it needs to know the new event which was
ultimately added to the notification queue. This patch just implements a
void ** argument which is passed to the merge function. fanotify can use
this field to pass the new event back to higher layers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
for fanotify to properly deal with permissions events
When fanotify receives an event it will check event->mask & ~ignored_mask.
If no bits are left the event will not be sent.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
A number of validity checks on outgoing data are done in static inlines but
are only used in one place. Instead just do them where they are used for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently should_send_event in fanotify only cares about marks on inodes.
This patch extends that interface to indicate that it cares about events
that happened on vfsmounts.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently all marking is done by functions in inode-mark.c. Some of this
is pretty generic and should be instead done in a generic function and we
should only put the inode specific code in inode-mark.c
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Pass the process identifiers of the triggering processes to fanotify
listeners: this information is useful for event filtering and logging.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently if 2 events are going to be merged on the notication queue with
different masks the second event will be cloned and will replace the first
event. However if this notification queue is the only place referencing
the event in question there is no reason not to just update the event in
place. We can tell this if the event->refcnt == 1. Since we hold a
reference for each queue this event is on we know that when refcnt == 1
this is the only queue. The other concern is that it might be about to be
added to a new queue, but this can't be the case since fsnotify holds a
reference on the event until it is finished adding it to queues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Instead of just merging fanotify events if they are exactly the same, merge
notification events with different masks. To do this we have to clone the
old event, update the mask in the new event with the new merged mask, and
put the new event in place of the old event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify listeners get an open file descriptor to the object in question so
the ordering of operations is not as important as in other notification
systems. inotify will drop events if the last event in the event FIFO is
the same as the current event. This patch will drop fanotify events if
they are the same as another event anywhere in the event FIFO.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on
giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open
file descriptor to the object in question. This should address a number of
races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify
and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled
notification. These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage
management schemes.
This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
