From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
David Windsor <dave@nullcore.net>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com"
<kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/30] xfs: Define usercopy region in xfs_inode slab cache
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:55:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGXu5j+V-U4OTRoOoJNAQA30Em90j0FEUdd=Jt7UPxWUNxO0xg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170829081453.GA10196@infradead.org>
On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:14 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> One thing I've been wondering is wether we should actually just
> get rid of the online area. Compared to reading an inode from
> disk a single additional kmalloc is negligible, and not having the
> inline data / extent list would allow us to reduce the inode size
> significantly.
>
> Kees/David: how many of these patches are file systems with some
> sort of inline data? Given that it's only about 30 patches declaring
> allocations either entirely valid for user copy or not might end up
> being nicer in many ways than these offsets.
9 filesystems use some form of inline data: xfs, vxfs, ufs, orangefs,
exofs, befs, jfs, ext2, and ext4. How much of each slab is whitelisted
varies by filesystem (e.g. ext2/4 uses i_data for other things, but
ufs and orangefs and have a dedicate field for symlink names).
-Kees
--
Kees Cook
Pixel Security
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-29 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-28 21:34 [PATCH v2 00/30] Hardened usercopy whitelisting Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 01/30] usercopy: Prepare for " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 02/30] usercopy: Enforce slab cache usercopy region boundaries Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 03/30] usercopy: Mark kmalloc caches as usercopy caches Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 04/30] dcache: Define usercopy region in dentry_cache slab cache Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 05/30] vfs: Define usercopy region in names_cache slab caches Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 06/30] vfs: Copy struct mount.mnt_id to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 07/30] ext4: Define usercopy region in ext4_inode_cache slab cache Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 08/30] ext2: Define usercopy region in ext2_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-30 11:22 ` Jan Kara
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 09/30] jfs: Define usercopy region in jfs_ip " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 10/30] befs: Define usercopy region in befs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-29 10:12 ` Luis de Bethencourt
2017-08-29 15:36 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 17:10 ` Luis de Bethencourt
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 11/30] exofs: Define usercopy region in exofs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 12/30] orangefs: Define usercopy region in orangefs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 13/30] ufs: Define usercopy region in ufs_inode_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 14/30] vxfs: Define usercopy region in vxfs_inode " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 15/30] xfs: Define usercopy region in xfs_inode " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:49 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-28 21:57 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 4:47 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-29 18:48 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 19:00 ` Darrick J. Wong
2017-08-29 22:15 ` Dave Chinner
2017-08-29 22:25 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-29 8:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 12:31 ` Dave Chinner
2017-08-29 12:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 21:51 ` Dave Chinner
2017-08-30 7:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-30 8:05 ` Dave Chinner
2017-08-30 8:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-08-29 18:55 ` Kees Cook [this message]
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 16/30] cifs: Define usercopy region in cifs_request " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 17/30] scsi: Define usercopy region in scsi_sense_cache " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:42 ` Bart Van Assche
2017-08-28 21:52 ` Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:34 ` [PATCH v2 18/30] net: Define usercopy region in struct proto " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 19/30] ip: Define usercopy region in IP " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 20/30] caif: Define usercopy region in caif " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 21/30] sctp: Define usercopy region in SCTP " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 22/30] sctp: Copy struct sctp_sock.autoclose to userspace using put_user() Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 23/30] net: Restrict unwhitelisted proto caches to size 0 Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 24/30] fork: Define usercopy region in mm_struct slab caches Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 25/30] fork: Define usercopy region in thread_stack " Kees Cook
2017-08-30 18:55 ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 26/30] fork: Provide usercopy whitelisting for task_struct Kees Cook
2017-08-30 18:55 ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 27/30] x86: Implement thread_struct whitelist for hardened usercopy Kees Cook
2017-08-30 18:55 ` [kernel-hardening] " Rik van Riel
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 28/30] arm64: " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 29/30] arm: " Kees Cook
2017-08-28 21:35 ` [PATCH v2 30/30] usercopy: Restrict non-usercopy caches to size 0 Kees Cook
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