From: Martin Brandenburg <martin@omnibond.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Orangefs ABI documentation
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:52:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+D=wkjuAq-krCKPMFJ6M4iik4Cz=WLS1KE=pQQGSWpz07q6Rw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160124040529.GX17997@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On 1/23/16, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> We'll just decrement the refcount of bufmap, do nothing since it hasn't
> reached zero, proceed to mark all ops as purged, wake each service_operation()
> up and sod off. Now, the holders of those slots will call
> orangefs_get_bufmap_init(), get 1 (since we hadn't dropped the last reference
> yet - can it *ever* see 0 there, actually?) and return -EAGAIN. With
> wait_for_direct_io() noticing that, freeing the slot and going into restart.
> And if there was the only one, we are fine, but what if there were several?
The answer here is yes. Otherwise a malicious client could not set up
the bufmap then crash the kernel by attempting to use it.
-- Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 19:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-15 21:46 Orangefs ABI documentation Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 7:11 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 11:09 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 16:59 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 17:08 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 17:40 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 17:43 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 18:17 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 18:37 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 19:07 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 19:21 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 20:04 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 20:30 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-23 0:12 ` Al Viro
2016-01-23 1:28 ` Al Viro
2016-01-23 2:54 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-23 19:10 ` Al Viro
2016-01-23 19:24 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-23 21:35 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-23 22:05 ` Al Viro
2016-01-23 21:40 ` Al Viro
2016-01-23 22:36 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-24 0:16 ` Al Viro
2016-01-24 4:05 ` Al Viro
2016-01-24 22:12 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-30 17:22 ` Al Viro
2016-01-26 19:52 ` Martin Brandenburg [this message]
2016-01-30 17:34 ` Al Viro
2016-01-30 18:27 ` Al Viro
2016-02-04 23:30 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-06 19:42 ` Al Viro
2016-02-07 1:38 ` Al Viro
2016-02-07 3:53 ` Al Viro
2016-02-07 20:01 ` [RFC] bufmap-related wait logics (Re: Orangefs ABI documentation) Al Viro
2016-02-08 22:26 ` Orangefs ABI documentation Mike Marshall
2016-02-08 23:35 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 3:32 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 14:34 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-09 17:40 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 21:06 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 22:25 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-11 23:36 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-09 22:02 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-09 22:16 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 22:40 ` Al Viro
2016-02-09 23:13 ` Al Viro
2016-02-10 16:44 ` Al Viro
2016-02-10 21:26 ` Al Viro
2016-02-11 23:54 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-12 0:55 ` Al Viro
2016-02-12 12:13 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-11 0:44 ` Al Viro
2016-02-11 3:22 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-12 4:27 ` Al Viro
2016-02-12 12:26 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-12 18:00 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-13 17:18 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-13 17:47 ` Al Viro
2016-02-14 2:56 ` Al Viro
2016-02-14 3:46 ` [RFC] slot allocator - waitqueue use review needed (Re: Orangefs ABI documentation) Al Viro
2016-02-14 4:06 ` Al Viro
2016-02-16 2:12 ` Al Viro
2016-02-16 19:28 ` Al Viro
2016-02-14 22:31 ` Orangefs ABI documentation Mike Marshall
2016-02-14 23:43 ` Al Viro
2016-02-15 17:46 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-15 18:45 ` Al Viro
2016-02-15 22:32 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-15 23:04 ` Al Viro
2016-02-16 23:15 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-16 23:36 ` Al Viro
2016-02-16 23:54 ` Al Viro
2016-02-17 19:24 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-17 20:11 ` Al Viro
2016-02-17 21:17 ` Al Viro
2016-02-17 22:24 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-17 22:40 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-17 23:09 ` Al Viro
2016-02-17 23:15 ` Al Viro
2016-02-18 0:04 ` Al Viro
2016-02-18 11:11 ` Al Viro
2016-02-18 18:58 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-18 19:20 ` Al Viro
2016-02-18 19:49 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-18 20:08 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-18 20:22 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-18 20:38 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-18 20:52 ` Al Viro
2016-02-18 21:50 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-19 0:25 ` Al Viro
2016-02-19 22:11 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-19 22:22 ` Al Viro
2016-02-20 12:14 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-20 13:36 ` Al Viro
2016-02-22 16:20 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-22 21:22 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-23 21:58 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-26 20:21 ` Mike Marshall
2016-02-19 22:32 ` Al Viro
2016-02-19 22:45 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-19 22:50 ` Martin Brandenburg
2016-02-18 20:49 ` Al Viro
2016-02-15 22:47 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-23 22:46 ` write() semantics (Re: Orangefs ABI documentation) Al Viro
2016-01-23 23:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2016-03-03 22:25 ` Mike Marshall
2016-03-04 20:55 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 20:51 ` Orangefs ABI documentation Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 23:53 ` Mike Marshall
2016-01-22 19:54 ` Al Viro
2016-01-22 19:50 ` Al Viro
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