linux/fs/sysfs, branch v3.17

kernfs: move the last knowledge of sysfs out from kernfs

2014-05-27T21:33:17Z

There is still one residue of sysfs remaining: the sb_magic SYSFS_MAGIC. However this should be kernfs user specific, so this patch moves it out. Kerrnfs user should specify their magic number while mouting. Signed-off-by: Jianyu Zhan Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: fix attribute_group bin file path on removal

2014-05-27T21:33:17Z

Cody Schafer already fixed binary file creation for attribute groups, see [1]. This patch makes the appropriate changes for binary file removal of attribute groups. [1]: http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/27/832 Signed-off-by: Robert ABEL Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: make sure read buffer is zeroed

2014-05-20T01:15:53Z

13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") switched sysfs from custom read implementation to seq_file to enable later transition to kernfs. After the change, the buffer passed to ->show() is acquired through seq_get_buf(); unfortunately, this introduces a subtle behavior change. Before the commit, the buffer passed to ->show() was always zero as it was allocated using get_zeroed_page(). Because seq_file doesn't clear buffers on allocation and neither does seq_get_buf(), after the commit, depending on the behavior of ->show(), we may end up exposing uninitialized data to userland thus possibly altering userland visible behavior and leaking information. Fix it by explicitly clearing the buffer. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Ron Fixes: 13c589d5b0ac ("sysfs: use seq_file when reading regular files") Cc: stable # 3.13+ Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernfs, sysfs, cgroup: restrict extra perm check on open to sysfs

2014-05-13T11:21:40Z

The kernfs open method - kernfs_fop_open() - inherited extra permission checks from sysfs. While the vfs layer allows ignoring the read/write permissions checks if the issuer has CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE, sysfs explicitly denied open regardless of the cap if the file doesn't have any of the UGO perms of the requested access or doesn't implement the requested operation. It can be debated whether this was a good idea or not but the behavior is too subtle and dangerous to change at this point. After cgroup got converted to kernfs, this extra perm check also got applied to cgroup breaking libcgroup which opens write-only files with O_RDWR as root. This patch gates the extra open permission check with a new flag KERNFS_ROOT_EXTRA_OPEN_PERM_CHECK and enables it for sysfs. For sysfs, nothing changes. For cgroup, root now can perform any operation regardless of the permissions as it was before kernfs conversion. Note that kernfs still fails unimplemented operations with -EINVAL. While at it, add comments explaining KERNFS_ROOT flags. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Reported-by: Andrey Wagin Tested-by: Andrey Wagin Cc: Li Zefan References: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/CANaxB-xUm3rJ-Cbp72q-rQJO5mZe1qK6qXsQM=vh0U8upJ44+A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 2bd59d48ebfb ("cgroup: convert to kernfs") Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()

2014-04-16T18:56:33Z

All device_schedule_callback_owner() users are converted to use device_remove_file_self(). Remove now unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner()"

2014-03-26T03:54:57Z

This reverts commit d1ba277e79889085a2faec3b68b91ce89c63f888. As reported by Stephen, this patch breaks linux-next as a ppc patch suddenly (after 2 years) started using this old api call. So revert it for now, it will go away in 3.15-rc2 when we can change the PPC call to the new api. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Stewart Smith Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge 3.14-rc5 into driver-core-next

2014-03-03T04:09:08Z

We want the fixes in here.

sysfs: fix namespace refcnt leak

2014-02-25T15:37:52Z

As mount() and kill_sb() is not a one-to-one match, we shoudn't get ns refcnt unconditionally in sysfs_mount(), and instead we should get the refcnt only when kernfs_mount() allocated a new superblock. v2: - Changed the name of the new argument, suggested by Tejun. - Made the argument optional, suggested by Tejun. v3: - Make the new argument as second-to-last arg, suggested by Tejun. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan Acked-by: Tejun Heo --- fs/kernfs/mount.c | 8 +++++++- fs/sysfs/mount.c | 5 +++-- include/linux/kernfs.h | 9 +++++---- 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group

2014-02-15T20:14:55Z

bin_attributes created/updated in create_files() (such as those listed via (struct device).attribute_groups) were not placed under the specified group, and instead appeared in the base kobj directory. Fix this by making bin_attributes use creating code similar to normal attributes. A quick grep shows that no one is using bin_attrs in a named attribute group yet, so we can do this without breaking anything in usespace. Note that I do not add is_visible() support to bin_attributes, though that could be done as well. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kernfs: add CONFIG_KERNFS

2014-02-08T00:08:57Z

As sysfs was kernfs's only user, kernfs has been piggybacking on CONFIG_SYSFS; however, kernfs is scheduled to grow a new user very soon. Introduce a separate config option CONFIG_KERNFS which is to be selected by kernfs users. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman