From: Hou Tao <houtao1@huawei.com>
To: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>, <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Cc: houtao1@huawei.com
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] fixes for ubifs xattr operations
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 21:04:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200630130438.141649-1-houtao1@huawei.com> (raw)
Hi,
The patch set tries to fix the race between ubifs xattr read
operations and write operations.
Now inode_lock() is acquired during xattr write ops (set & remove),
however no extra lock is taken in xattr read ops (list & get), and
it leads to three problems:
(1) ubifs_listxattr() may incur memory corruption and assertion failure
(2) ubifs_xattr_get() may incur assertion failure
(3) ubifs_xattr_get() may return a stale xattr value
To fix it, instead of adding a xattr-related rwsem for ubifs inode,
we decide to fix these problems simply and still do xattr read operation
locklessly. The major concern is that xattr read operations (list & get)
may return xattr names or values which is still in creation or removal
process, but we think that's OK because no stale name or value is
returned, just either the old ones or the new ones.
Comments are weclome.
Regards,
Tao
Hou Tao (3):
ubifs: check the remaining name buffer during xattr list
ubifs: protect assertion of xattr value size by ui_mutex during xattr
get
ubifs: ensure only one in-memory xattr inode is created
fs/ubifs/xattr.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--
2.25.0.4.g0ad7144999
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-30 13:04 Hou Tao [this message]
2020-06-30 13:04 ` [PATCH 1/3] ubifs: check the remaining name buffer during xattr list Hou Tao
2020-06-30 13:04 ` [PATCH 2/3] ubifs: protect assertion of xattr value size by ui_mutex during xattr get Hou Tao
2020-06-30 13:04 ` [PATCH 3/3] ubifs: ensure only one in-memory xattr inode is created Hou Tao
2020-06-30 13:15 ` [PATCH 0/3] fixes for ubifs xattr operations Richard Weinberger
2020-07-01 1:11 ` Hou Tao
2020-10-23 7:19 ` Hou Tao
2020-10-31 21:10 ` Richard Weinberger
2020-11-03 2:04 ` Hou Tao
2020-11-03 8:19 ` Richard Weinberger
2021-02-24 2:49 ` Hou Tao
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