From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>,
"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>,
Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com>,
Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>,
quae@daurnimator.com, dev@opencontainers.org,
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linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/2] openat2: minor uapi cleanups
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2020 01:12:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200119011233.GU8904@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200118230313.y4a3s7elierw4wzw@yavin>
On Sun, Jan 19, 2020 at 10:03:13AM +1100, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> > possibly trigger? The only things that ever clean ->root.mnt are
>
> You're quite right -- the codepath I was worried about was pick_link()
> failing (which *does* clear nd->path.mnt, and I must've misread it at
> the time as nd->root.mnt).
pick_link() (allocation failure of external stack in RCU case, followed
by failure to legitimize the link) is, unfortunately, subtle and nasty.
We *must* path_put() the link; if we'd managed to legitimize the mount
and failed on dentry, the mount needs to be dropped. No way around it.
And while everything else there can be left for soon-to-be-reached
terminate_walk(), this cannot. We have no good way to pass what
we need to drop to the place where that eventual terminate_walk()
drops rcu_read_lock(). So we end up having to do what terminate_walk()
would've done and do it right there, so we could do that path_put(link)
before we bugger off.
I'm not happy about that, but I don't see cleaner solutions, more's the
pity. However, it doesn't mess with ->root - nor should it, since
we don't have LOOKUP_ROOT_GRABBED (not in RCU mode), so it can and
should be left alone.
> We can drop this check, though now complete_walk()'s main defence
> against a NULL nd->root.mnt is that path_is_under() will fail and
> trigger -EXDEV (or set_root() will fail at some point in the future).
> However, as you pointed out, a NULL nd->root.mnt won't happen with
> things as they stand today -- I might be a little too paranoid. :P
The only reason why complete_walk() zeroes nd->root in some cases is
microoptimization - we *know* we won't be using it later, so we don't
care whether it's stale or not and can spare unlazy_walk() a bit of
work. All there is to that one.
I don't see any reason for adding code that would clear nd->root in later
work; if such thing does get added (again, I don't see what purpose
could that possibly serve), we'll need to watch out for a lot of things.
Starting with LOOKUP_ROOT case... It's not something likely to slip
in unnoticed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-01-19 1:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 92+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-30 5:20 [PATCH RFC 0/1] mount: universally disallow mounting over symlinks Aleksa Sarai
2019-12-30 5:20 ` [PATCH RFC 1/1] " Aleksa Sarai
2019-12-30 7:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-30 8:28 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-08 4:39 ` Andy Lutomirski
2019-12-30 5:44 ` [PATCH RFC 0/1] " Al Viro
2019-12-30 5:49 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-12-30 7:29 ` Aleksa Sarai
2019-12-30 7:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2019-12-30 8:32 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-02 8:58 ` David Laight
2020-01-02 9:09 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-01 0:43 ` Al Viro
2020-01-01 0:54 ` Al Viro
2020-01-01 3:08 ` Al Viro
2020-01-01 14:44 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-01 23:40 ` Al Viro
2020-01-02 3:59 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-03 1:49 ` Al Viro
2020-01-04 4:46 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-08 3:13 ` Al Viro
2020-01-08 3:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-08 21:34 ` Al Viro
2020-01-10 0:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-10 4:15 ` Al Viro
2020-01-10 5:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-01-10 6:20 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-12 21:33 ` Al Viro
2020-01-13 2:59 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-14 0:25 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-14 4:39 ` Al Viro
2020-01-14 5:01 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-14 5:59 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-10 21:07 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-14 4:57 ` Al Viro
2020-01-14 5:12 ` Al Viro
2020-01-14 20:01 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-15 14:25 ` Al Viro
2020-01-15 14:29 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-15 14:34 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-15 14:48 ` Al Viro
2020-01-18 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] openat2: minor uapi cleanups Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-18 12:07 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] open: introduce openat2(2) syscall Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-18 12:08 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] selftests: add openat2(2) selftests Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-18 15:28 ` [PATCH v3 0/2] openat2: minor uapi cleanups Al Viro
2020-01-18 18:09 ` Al Viro
2020-01-18 23:03 ` Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-19 1:12 ` Al Viro [this message]
2020-01-15 13:57 ` [PATCH RFC 0/1] mount: universally disallow mounting over symlinks Aleksa Sarai
2020-01-19 3:14 ` [RFC][PATCHSET][CFT] pathwalk cleanups and fixes Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 01/17] do_add_mount(): lift lock_mount/unlock_mount into callers Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 02/17] fix automount/automount race properly Al Viro
2020-01-30 14:34 ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 03/17] follow_automount(): get rid of dead^Wstillborn code Al Viro
2020-01-30 14:38 ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 04/17] follow_automount() doesn't need the entire nameidata Al Viro
2020-01-30 14:45 ` Christian Brauner
2020-01-30 15:38 ` Al Viro
2020-01-30 15:55 ` Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 05/17] make build_open_flags() treat O_CREAT | O_EXCL as implying O_NOFOLLOW Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 06/17] handle_mounts(): start building a sane wrapper for follow_managed() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 07/17] atomic_open(): saner calling conventions (return dentry on success) Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 08/17] lookup_open(): " Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 09/17] do_last(): collapse the call of path_to_nameidata() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 10/17] handle_mounts(): pass dentry in, turn path into a pure out argument Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 11/17] lookup_fast(): consolidate the RCU success case Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 12/17] teach handle_mounts() to handle RCU mode Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 13/17] lookup_fast(): take mount traversal into callers Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 14/17] new step_into() flag: WALK_NOFOLLOW Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 15/17] fold handle_mounts() into step_into() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 16/17] LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT: fold path_mountpointat() into path_lookupat() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 17/17] expand the only remaining call of path_lookup_conditional() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 1/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 1 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 2/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 2 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 3/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 3 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 4/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 4 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 5/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 5 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 6/9] merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 6 Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 7/9] finally fold get_link() into pick_link() Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 8/9] massage __follow_mount_rcu() a bit Al Viro
2020-01-19 3:17 ` [PATCH 9/9] new helper: traverse_mounts() Al Viro
2020-01-30 14:13 ` [PATCH 01/17] do_add_mount(): lift lock_mount/unlock_mount into callers Christian Brauner
2020-01-19 14:33 ` [RFC][PATCHSET][CFT] pathwalk cleanups and fixes Ian Kent
2020-01-10 23:19 ` [PATCH RFC 0/1] mount: universally disallow mounting over symlinks Al Viro
2020-01-13 1:48 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-13 3:54 ` Al Viro
2020-01-13 6:00 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-13 6:03 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-13 13:30 ` Al Viro
2020-01-14 7:25 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-14 12:17 ` Ian Kent
2020-01-04 5:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
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