From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, INCLUDES_PATCH,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC896C4646B for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 03:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B13A220659 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 03:52:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726849AbfFZDwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2019 23:52:32 -0400 Received: from zeniv.linux.org.uk ([195.92.253.2]:44166 "EHLO ZenIV.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726757AbfFZDwc (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Jun 2019 23:52:32 -0400 Received: from viro by ZenIV.linux.org.uk with local (Exim 4.92 #3 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1hfyyN-0008Mv-UN; Wed, 26 Jun 2019 03:51:52 +0000 Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 04:51:51 +0100 From: Al Viro To: "Darrick J. Wong" Cc: matthew.garrett@nebula.com, yuchao0@huawei.com, tytso@mit.edu, ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org, josef@toxicpanda.com, hch@infradead.org, clm@fb.com, adilger.kernel@dilger.ca, jack@suse.com, dsterba@suse.com, jaegeuk@kernel.org, jk@ozlabs.org, reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-efi@vger.kernel.org, devel@lists.orangefs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-nilfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] vfs: don't allow writes to swap files Message-ID: <20190626035151.GA10613@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <156151637248.2283603.8458727861336380714.stgit@magnolia> <156151641177.2283603.7806026378321236401.stgit@magnolia> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <156151641177.2283603.7806026378321236401.stgit@magnolia> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-efi-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 07:33:31PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > --- a/fs/attr.c > +++ b/fs/attr.c > @@ -236,6 +236,9 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry, struct iattr * attr, struct inode **de > if (IS_IMMUTABLE(inode)) > return -EPERM; > > + if (IS_SWAPFILE(inode)) > + return -ETXTBSY; > + > if ((ia_valid & (ATTR_MODE | ATTR_UID | ATTR_GID | ATTR_TIMES_SET)) && > IS_APPEND(inode)) > return -EPERM; Er... So why exactly is e.g. chmod(2) forbidden for swapfiles? Or touch(1), for that matter... > diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c > index 596ac98051c5..1ca4ee8c2d60 100644 > --- a/mm/swapfile.c > +++ b/mm/swapfile.c > @@ -3165,6 +3165,19 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(swapon, const char __user *, specialfile, int, swap_flags) > if (error) > goto bad_swap; > > + /* > + * Flush any pending IO and dirty mappings before we start using this > + * swap file. > + */ > + if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) { > + inode->i_flags |= S_SWAPFILE; > + error = inode_drain_writes(inode); > + if (error) { > + inode->i_flags &= ~S_SWAPFILE; > + goto bad_swap; > + } > + } Why are swap partitions any less worthy of protection?