linux/fs/ext3, branch v3.9

ext3: Fix format string issues

2013-03-11T21:05:56Z

ext3_msg() takes the printk prefix as the second parameter and the format string as the third parameter. Two callers of ext3_msg omit the prefix and pass the format string as the second parameter and the first parameter to the format string as the third parameter. In both cases this string comes from an arbitrary source. Which means the string may contain format string characters, which will lead to undefined and potentially harmful behavior. The issue was introduced in commit 4cf46b67eb("ext3: Unify log messages in ext3") and is fixed by this patch. CC: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.

2013-03-04T03:36:31Z

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 Acked-by: Kees Cook Reported-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman"

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

2013-02-27T04:16:07Z

Pull vfs pile (part one) from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff - cleaning namei.c up a bit, fixing ->d_name/->d_parent locking violations, etc. The most visible changes here are death of FS_REVAL_DOT (replaced with "has ->d_weak_revalidate()") and a new helper getting from struct file to inode. Some bits of preparation to xattr method interface changes. Misc patches by various people sent this cycle *and* ocfs2 fixes from several cycles ago that should've been upstream right then. PS: the next vfs pile will be xattr stuff." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (46 commits) saner proc_get_inode() calling conventions proc: avoid extra pde_put() in proc_fill_super() fs: change return values from -EACCES to -EPERM fs/exec.c: make bprm_mm_init() static ocfs2/dlm: use GFP_ATOMIC inside a spin_lock ocfs2: fix possible use-after-free with AIO ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path get_empty_filp()/alloc_file() leave both ->f_pos and ->f_version zero target: writev() on single-element vector is pointless export kernel_write(), convert open-coded instances fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type kill f_vfsmnt vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op nfsd: handle vfs_getattr errors in acl protocol switch vfs_getattr() to struct path default SET_PERSONALITY() in linux/elf.h ceph: prepopulate inodes only when request is aborted d_hash_and_lookup(): export, switch open-coded instances 9p: switch v9fs_set_create_acl() to inode+fid, do it before d_instantiate() 9p: split dropping the acls from v9fs_set_create_acl() ...

Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs

2013-02-26T22:51:52Z

Pull ext2, ext3, udf updates from Jan Kara: "Several UDF fixes, a support for UDF extent cache, and couple of ext2 and ext3 cleanups and minor fixes" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: Ext2: remove the static function release_blocks to optimize the kernel Ext2: mark inode dirty after the function dquot_free_block_nodirty is called Ext2: remove the overhead check about sb in the function ext2_new_blocks udf: Remove unused s_extLength from udf_bitmap udf: Make s_block_bitmap standard array udf: Fix bitmap overflow on large filesystems with small block size udf: add extent cache support in case of file reading udf: Write LVID to disk after opening / closing Ext3: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails Ext2: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails Ext3: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel Ext2: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel Ext3: add necessary check in case IO error happens Ext2: free memory allocated and forget buffer head when io error happens ext3: Fix memory leak when quota options are specified multiple times ext3, ext4, ocfs2: remove unused macro NAMEI_RA_INDEX

new helper: file_inode(file)

2013-02-23T04:31:31Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

block: optionally snapshot page contents to provide stable pages during write

2013-02-22T01:22:20Z

This provides a band-aid to provide stable page writes on jbd without needing to backport the fixed locking and page writeback bit handling schemes of jbd2. The band-aid works by using bounce buffers to snapshot page contents instead of waiting. For those wondering about the ext3 bandage -- fixing the jbd locking (which was done as part of ext4dev years ago) is a lot of surgery, and setting PG_writeback on data pages when we actually hold the page lock dropped ext3 performance by nearly an order of magnitude. If we're going to migrate iscsi and raid to use stable page writes, the complaints about high latency will likely return. We might as well centralize their page snapshotting thing to one place. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Tested-by: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Artem Bityutskiy Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Joel Becker Cc: Mark Fasheh Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen Cc: Ron Minnich Cc: Latchesar Ionkov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Ext3: return ENOMEM rather than EIO if sb_getblk fails

2013-01-21T10:19:57Z

It will be better to use ENOMEM rather than EIO, because the only reason that sb_getblk fails is that allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Ext3: use unlikely to improve the efficiency of the kernel

2013-01-21T10:19:57Z

Because the function 'sb_getblk' seldomly fails to return NULL value,it will be better to use unlikely to check it. Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

Ext3: add necessary check in case IO error happens

2013-01-21T10:19:56Z

As we know io error may happen when the function 'sb_getblk' is called.Add necessary check for it The patch also fix a coding style problem. Signed-off-by: Wang Shilong Signed-off-by: Jan Kara

ext3: Fix memory leak when quota options are specified multiple times

2013-01-21T10:19:55Z

When usrjquota or grpjquota mount options are specified several times, we leak memory storing the names. Free the memory correctly. Reported-by: Chen Gang Signed-off-by: Jan Kara