We should not try to open a file descriptor for the overflow event since this
will always fail.
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If fanotify_init is unable to allocate a new fsnotify group it will
return but will not drop its reference on the associated user struct.
Drop that reference on error.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If inotify_init is unable to allocate a new file for the new inotify
group we leak the new group. This patch drops the reference on the
group on file allocation failure.
Reported-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
When fanotify_release() is called, there may still be processes waiting for
access permission. Currently only processes for which an event has already been
queued into the groups access list will be woken up. Processes for which no
event has been queued will continue to sleep and thus cause a deadlock when
fsnotify_put_group() is called.
Furthermore there is a race allowing further processes to be waiting on the
access wait queue after wake_up (if they arrive before clear_marks_by_group()
is called).
This patch corrects this by setting a flag to inform processes that the group
is about to be destroyed and thus not to wait for access permission.
[additional changelog from eparis]
Lets think about the 4 relevant code paths from the PoV of the
'operator' 'listener' 'responder' and 'closer'. Where operator is the
process doing an action (like open/read) which could require permission.
Listener is the task (or in this case thread) slated with reading from
the fanotify file descriptor. The 'responder' is the thread responsible
for responding to access requests. 'Closer' is the thread attempting to
close the fanotify file descriptor.
The 'operator' is going to end up in:
fanotify_handle_event()
get_response_from_access()
(THIS BLOCKS WAITING ON USERSPACE)
The 'listener' interesting code path
fanotify_read()
copy_event_to_user()
prepare_for_access_response()
(THIS CREATES AN fanotify_response_event)
The 'responder' code path:
fanotify_write()
process_access_response()
(REMOVE A fanotify_response_event, SET RESPONSE, WAKE UP 'operator')
The 'closer':
fanotify_release()
(SUPPOSED TO CLEAN UP THE REST OF THIS MESS)
What we have today is that in the closer we remove all of the
fanotify_response_events and set a bit so no more response events are
ever created in prepare_for_access_response().
The bug is that we never wake all of the operators up and tell them to
move along. You fix that in fanotify_get_response_from_access(). You
also fix other operators which haven't gotten there yet. So I agree
that's a good fix.
[/additional changelog from eparis]
[remove additional changes to minimize patch size]
[move initialization so it was inside CONFIG_FANOTIFY_PERMISSION]
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
In mark_remove_from_mask() we destroy marks that have their event mask cleared.
Thus we should not allow the creation of those marks in the first place.
With this patch we check if the mask given from user is 0 in case of FAN_MARK_ADD.
If so we return an error. Same for FAN_MARK_REMOVE since this does not have any
effect.
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If adding a mount or inode mark failed fanotify_free_mark() is called explicitly.
But at this time the mark has already been put into the destroy list of the
fsnotify_mark kernel thread. If the thread is too slow it will try to decrease
the reference of a mark, that has already been freed by fanotify_free_mark().
(If its fast enough it will only decrease the marks ref counter from 2 to 1 - note
that the counter has been increased to 2 in add_mark() - which has practically no
effect.)
This patch fixes the ref counting by not calling free_mark() explicitly, but
decreasing the ref counter and rely on the fsnotify_mark thread to cleanup in
case adding the mark has failed.
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If no event was sent to userspace we cannot expect userspace to respond to
permissions requests. Today such requests just hang forever. This patch will
deny any permissions event which was unable to be sent to userspace.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
In fanotify_read() return -ERESTARTSYS instead of -EINTR to
make read() restartable across signals (BSD semantic).
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c: In function 'fanotify_release':
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:375: warning: unused variable 'lre'
fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:375: warning: unused variable 're'
this is really ugly.
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If fanotify sets a new bit in the ignored mask it will cause the generic
fsnotify layer to recalculate the real mask. This is stupid since we
didn't change that part.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify has a very limited number of events it sends on directories. The
usefulness of these events is yet to be seen and still we send them. This
is particularly painful for mount marks where one might receive many of
these useless events. As such this patch will drop events on IS_DIR()
inodes unless they were explictly requested with FAN_ON_DIR.
This means that a mark on a directory without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD or
FAN_ON_DIR is meaningless and will result in no events ever (although it
will still be allowed since detecting it is hard)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The _IN_ in the naming is reserved for flags only used by inotify. Since I
am about to use this flag for fanotify rename it to be generic like the
rest.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify_should_send_event has a test to see if an object is a file or
directory and does not send an event otherwise. The problem is that the
test is actually checking if the object with a mark is a file or directory,
not if the object the event happened on is a file or directory. We should
check the latter.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify currently has no limit on the number of listeners a given user can
have open. This patch limits the total number of listeners per user to
128. This is the same as the inotify default limit.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Some fanotify groups, especially those like AV scanners, will need to place
lots of marks, particularly ignore marks. Since ignore marks do not pin
inodes in cache and are cleared if the inode is removed from core (usually
under memory pressure) we expose an interface for listeners, with
CAP_SYS_ADMIN, to override the maximum number of marks and be allowed to
set and 'unlimited' number of marks. Programs which make use of this
feature will be able to OOM a machine.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
There is currently no limit on the number of marks a given fanotify group
can have. Since fanotify is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN this was not seen as
a serious DoS threat. This patch implements a default of 8192, the same as
inotify to work towards removing the CAP_SYS_ADMIN gating and eliminating
the default DoS'able status.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify has a defualt max queue depth. This patch allows processes which
explicitly request it to have an 'unlimited' queue depth. These processes
need to be very careful to make sure they cannot fall far enough behind
that they OOM the box. Thus this flag is gated on CAP_SYS_ADMIN.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently fanotify has no maximum queue depth. Since fanotify is
CAP_SYS_ADMIN only this does not pose a normal user DoS issue, but it
certianly is possible that an fanotify listener which can't keep up could
OOM the box. This patch implements a default 16k depth. This is the same
default depth used by inotify, but given fanotify's better queue merging in
many situations this queue will contain many additional useful events by
comparison.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify will clear ignore marks if a task changes the contents of an
inode. The problem is with the races around when userspace finishes
checking a file and when that result is actually attached to the inode.
This race was described as such:
Consider the following scenario with hostile processes A and B, and
victim process C:
1. Process A opens new file for writing. File check request is generated.
2. File check is performed in userspace. Check result is "file has no malware".
3. The "permit" response is delivered to kernel space.
4. File ignored mark set.
5. Process A writes dummy bytes to the file. File ignored flags are cleared.
6. Process B opens the same file for reading. File check request is generated.
7. File check is performed in userspace. Check result is "file has no malware".
8. Process A writes malware bytes to the file. There is no cached response yet.
9. The "permit" response is delivered to kernel space and is cached in fanotify.
10. File ignored mark set.
11. Now any process C will be permitted to open the malware file.
There is a race between steps 8 and 10
While fanotify makes no strong guarantees about systems with hostile
processes there is no reason we cannot harden against this race. We do
that by simply ignoring any ignore marks if the inode has open writers (aka
i_writecount > 0). (We actually do not ignore ignore marks if the
FAN_MARK_SURV_MODIFY flag is set)
Reported-by: Vasily Novikov <vasily.novikov@kaspersky.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify perm events do not call fsnotify parent. That means you cannot
register a perm event on a directory and enforce permissions on all inodes in
that directory. This patch fixes that situation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
When fsnotify groups return errors they are ignored. For permissions
events these should be passed back up the stack, but for most events these
should continue to be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The fanotify listeners needs to be able to specify what types of operations
they are going to perform so they can be ordered appropriately between other
listeners doing other types of operations. They need this to be able to make
sure that things like hierarchichal storage managers will get access to inodes
before processes which need the data. This patch defines 3 possible uses
which groups must indicate in the fanotify_init() flags.
FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT
FAN_CLASS_CONTENT
FAN_CLASS_NOTIF
Groups will receive notification in that order. The order between 2 groups in
the same class is undeterministic.
FAN_CLASS_PRE_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to
the inode before they are certain that the inode contains it's final data. A
hierarchical storage manager should choose to use this class.
FAN_CLASS_CONTENT is intended to be used by listeners which need access to the
inode after it contains its intended contents. This would be the appropriate
level for an AV solution or document control system.
FAN_CLASS_NOTIF is intended for normal async notification about access, much the
same as inotify and dnotify. Syncronous permissions events are not permitted
at this class.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify needs to be able to specify that some groups get events before
others. They use this idea to make sure that a hierarchical storage
manager gets access to files before programs which actually use them. This
is purely infrastructure. Everything will have a priority of 0, but the
infrastructure will exist for it to be non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
We disabled the ability to build fanotify in commit 7c5347733d.
This reverts that commit and allows people to build fanotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Pull removal of fsnotify marks into generic_shutdown_super().
Split umount-time work into a new function - evict_inodes().
Make sure that invalidate_inodes() will be able to cope with
I_FREEING once we change locking in iput().
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Use dget_parent instead of opencoding it. This simplifies the code, but
more importanly prepares for the more complicated locking for a parent
dget in the dcache scale patch series.
It means we do grab a reference to the parent now if need to be watched,
but not with the specified mask. If this turns out to be a problem
we'll have to revisit it, but for now let's keep as much as possible
dcache internals inside dcache.[ch].
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
|
*off += E
|
func(..., off, ...)
|
E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
This patch disables the fanotify syscalls by just not building them and
letting the cond_syscall() statements in kernel/sys_ni.c redirect them
to sys_ni_syscall().
It was pointed out by Tvrtko Ursulin that the fanotify interface did not
include an explicit prioritization between groups. This is necessary
for fanotify to be usable for hierarchical storage management software,
as they must get first access to the file, before inotify-like notifiers
see the file.
This feature can be added in an ABI compatible way in the next release
(by using a number of bits in the flags field to carry the info) but it
was suggested by Alan that maybe we should just hold off and do it in
the next cycle, likely with an (new) explicit argument to the syscall.
I don't like this approach best as I know people are already starting to
use the current interface, but Alan is all wise and noone on list backed
me up with just using what we have. I feel this is needlessly ripping
the rug out from under people at the last minute, but if others think it
needs to be a new argument it might be the best way forward.
Three choices:
Go with what we got (and implement the new feature next cycle). Add a
new field right now (and implement the new feature next cycle). Wait
till next cycle to release the ABI (and implement the new feature next
cycle). This is number 3.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The fsnotify main loop has 2 bools which indicated if we processed the
inode or vfsmount mark in that particular pass through the loop. These
bool can we replaced with the inode_group and vfsmount_group variables
and actually make the code a little easier to understand.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Marks were stored on the inode and vfsmonut mark list in order from
highest memory address to lowest memory address. The code to walk those
lists thought they were in order from lowest to highest with
unpredictable results when trying to match up marks from each. It was
possible that extra events would be sent to userspace when inode
marks ignoring events wouldn't get matched with the vfsmount marks.
This problem only affected fanotify when using both vfsmount and inode
marks simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The appropriate error code when privileged operations are denied is
EPERM, not EACCES.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <paris@paris.rdu.redhat.com>
This reminded me... you have two pr_debugs in fanotify_should_send_event
which output redundant information. Maybe you intended it like that so
it is selectable how much log spam you want, or if not you may want to
apply this patch.
Signed-off-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
When an fanotify listener is closing it may cause a deadlock between the
listener and the original task doing an fs operation. If the original task
is waiting for a permissions response it will be holding the srcu lock. The
listener cannot clean up and exit until after that srcu lock is syncronized.
Thus deadlock. The fix introduced here is to stop accepting new permissions
events when a listener is shutting down and to grant permission for all
outstanding events. Thus the original task will eventually release the srcu
lock and the listener can complete shutdown.
Reported-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Cc: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The interesting 2 list lockstep walking didn't quite work out if the inode
marks only had ignores and the vfsmount list requested events. The code to
shortcut list traversal would not run the inode list since it didn't have real
event requests. This code forces inode list traversal when a vfsmount mark
matches the event type. Maybe we could add an i_fsnotify_ignored_mask field
to struct inode to get the shortcut back, but it doesn't seem worth it to grow
struct inode again.
I bet with the recent changes to lock the way we do now it would actually not
be a major perf hit to just drop i_fsnotify_mark_mask altogether. But that is
for another day.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The fsnotify main loop has 2 booleans which tell if a particular mark was
sent to the listeners or if it should be processed in the next pass. The
problem is that the booleans were not reset on each traversal of the loop.
So marks could get skipped even when they were not sent to the notifiers.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The fanotify code is supposed to get the group from the mark. It accidentally
only used the inode_mark. If the vfsmount_mark was set but not the inode_mark
it would deref the NULL inode_mark. Get the group from the correct place.
Reported-by: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@sophos.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This reverts commit 3bcf3860a4 (and the
accompanying commit c1e5c95402 "vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay
the final work in fput" that was a horribly ugly hack to make it work at
all).
The 'struct file' approach not only causes that disgusting hack, it
somehow breaks pulseaudio, probably due to some other subtlety with
f_count handling.
Fix up various conflicts due to later fsnotify work.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: (132 commits)
fanotify: use both marks when possible
fsnotify: pass both the vfsmount mark and inode mark
fsnotify: walk the inode and vfsmount lists simultaneously
fsnotify: rework ignored mark flushing
fsnotify: remove global fsnotify groups lists
fsnotify: remove group->mask
fsnotify: remove the global masks
fsnotify: cleanup should_send_event
fanotify: use the mark in handler functions
audit: use the mark in handler functions
dnotify: use the mark in handler functions
inotify: use the mark in handler functions
fsnotify: send fsnotify_mark to groups in event handling functions
fsnotify: Exchange list heads instead of moving elements
fsnotify: srcu to protect read side of inode and vfsmount locks
fsnotify: use an explicit flag to indicate fsnotify_destroy_mark has been called
fsnotify: use _rcu functions for mark list traversal
fsnotify: place marks on object in order of group memory address
vfs/fsnotify: fsnotify_close can delay the final work in fput
fsnotify: store struct file not struct path
...
Fix up trivial delete/modify conflict in fs/notify/inotify/inotify.c.
add I_CLEAR instead of replacing I_FREEING with it. I_CLEAR is
equivalent to I_FREEING for almost all code looking at either;
it's there to keep track of having called clear_inode() exactly
once per inode lifetime, at some point after having set I_FREEING.
I_CLEAR and I_FREEING never get set at the same time with the
current code, so we can switch to setting i_flags to I_FREEING | I_CLEAR
instead of I_CLEAR without loss of information. As the result of
such change, checks become simpler and the amount of code that needs
to know about I_CLEAR shrinks a lot.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fanotify currently, when given a vfsmount_mark will look up (if it exists)
the corresponding inode mark. This patch drops that lookup and uses the
mark provided.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
should_send_event() and handle_event() will both need to look up the inode
event if they get a vfsmount event. Lets just pass both at the same time
since we have them both after walking the lists in lockstep.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
We currently walk the list of marks on an inode followed by the list of
marks on the vfsmount. These are in order (by the memory address of the
group) so lets walk them both together. Eventually we can pass both the
inode mark and the vfsmount mark to helpers simultaneously.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently ignored_mark clearing is done in a seperate list traversal
before the actual list traversal to send events. There is no need for
this. Do them at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The global fsnotify groups lists were invented as a way to increase the
performance of fsnotify by shortcutting events which were not interesting.
With the changes to walk the object lists rather than global groups lists
these shortcuts are not useful.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
group->mask is now useless. It was originally a shortcut for fsnotify to
save on performance. These checks are now redundant, so we remove them.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Because we walk the object->fsnotify_marks list instead of the global
fsnotify groups list we don't need the fsnotify_inode_mask and
fsnotify_vfsmount_mask as these were simply shortcuts in fsnotify() for
performance. They are now extra checks, rip them out.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The change to use srcu and walk the object list rather than the global
fsnotify_group list means that should_send_event is no longer needed for a
number of groups and can be simplified for others. Do that.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify now gets a mark in the should_send_event and handle_event
functions. Rather than look up the mark themselves fanotify should just use
the mark it was handed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
dnotify now gets a mark in the should_send_event and handle_event
functions. Rather than look up the mark themselves dnotify should just use
the mark it was handed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify now gets a mark in the should_send_event and handle_event
functions. Rather than look up the mark themselves inotify should just use
the mark it was handed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
With the change of fsnotify to use srcu walking the marks list instead of
walking the global groups list we now know the mark in question. The code can
send the mark to the group's handling functions and the groups won't have to
find those marks themselves.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Instead of moving list elements from destroy_list to &private_destroy_list,
exchange the list heads.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently reading the inode->i_fsnotify_marks or
vfsmount->mnt_fsnotify_marks lists are protected by a spinlock on both the
read and the write side. This patch protects the read side of those lists
with a new single srcu.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently fsnotify check is mark->group is NULL to decide if
fsnotify_destroy_mark() has already been called or not. With the upcoming
rcu work it is a heck of a lot easier to use an explicit flag than worry
about group being set to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
In preparation for srcu locking use all _rcu appropiete functions for mark
list addition, removal, and traversal. The operations are still done under a
spinlock at the end of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_marks currently are placed on objects (inodes or vfsmounts) in
arbitrary order. This patch places them in order of the group memory address.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify almost works like so:
user context calls fsnotify_* function with a struct file.
fsnotify takes a reference on the struct path
user context goes about it's buissiness
at some later point in time the fsnotify listener gets the struct path
fanotify listener calls dentry_open() to create a file which userspace can deal with
listener drops the reference on the struct path
at some later point the listener calls close() on it's new file
With the switch from struct path to struct file this presents a problem for
fput() and fsnotify_close(). fsnotify_close() is called when the filp has
already reached 0 and __fput() wants to do it's cleanup.
The solution presented here is a bit odd. If an event is created from a
struct file we take a reference on the file. We check however if the f_count
was already 0 and if so we take an EXTRA reference EVEN THOUGH IT WAS ZERO.
In __fput() (where we know the f_count hit 0 once) we check if the f_count is
non-zero and if so we drop that 'extra' ref and return without destroying the
file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Al explains that calling dentry_open() with a mnt/dentry pair is only
garunteed to be safe if they are already used in an open struct file. To
make sure this is the case don't store and use a struct path in fsnotify,
always use a struct file.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Rather than the horrific void ** argument and such just to pass the
fanotify_merge event back to the caller of fsnotify_add_notify_event() have
those things return an event if it was different than the event suggusted to
be added.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
It can be hard to debug fsnotify since there are so few printks. Use
pr_debug to allow for dynamic debugging.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently fanotify fds opened for thier listeners are done with f_flags
equal to O_RDONLY | O_LARGEFILE. This patch instead takes f_flags from the
fanotify_init syscall and uses those when opening files in the context of
the listener.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch adds a check to make sure that all fsnotify bits are unique and we
cannot accidentally use the same bit for 2 different fsnotify event types.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The mask checks in inotify_update_existing_watch() and
inotify_new_watch() are useless because inotify_arg_to_mask() sets
FS_IN_IGNORED and FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD bits anyway.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify uses bits called IN_* and fsnotify uses bits called FS_*. These
need to line up. This patch adds build time checks to make sure noone can
change these bits so they are not the same.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
An inotify watch on a directory will send events for children even if those
children have been unlinked. This patch add a new inotify flag IN_EXCL_UNLINK
which allows a watch to specificy they don't care about unlinked children.
This should fix performance problems seen by tasks which add a watch to
/tmp and then are overrun with events when other processes are reading and
writing to unlinked files they created in /tmp.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16296
Requested-by: Matthias Clasen <mclasen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Since the .31 or so notify rewrite inotify has not sent events about
inodes which are unmounted. This patch restores those events.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
During the large inotify rewrite to fsnotify I completely dropped support
for IN_ONESHOT. Reimplement that support.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Implicit slab.h inclusion via percpu.h is about to go away. Make sure
gfp.h or slab.h is included as necessary.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify has default to y in linux-next since it's inception but default to
n in the final push to Linus.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The symbol inotify_max_user_watches is not used outside this
file and should be static.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@rlove.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify takes an igrab on an inode when it adds a mark. The code was
supposed to drop the reference when the mark was removed but didn't.
This caused problems when an fs was unmounted because those inodes would
clearly not be gone. Thus resulting in the most devistating of messages:
VFS: Busy inodes after unmount of loop0. Self-destruct in 5 seconds.
>>> Have a nice day...
Jiri Slaby bisected the problem to a patch in the fsnotify tree. The
code snippets below show my stupidity quite clearly.
void fsnotify_destroy_inode_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark)
{
...
mark->inode = NULL;
...
}
void fsnotify_destroy_mark(struct fsnotify_mark *mark)
{
struct inode *inode = NULL;
...
if (mark->flags & FSNOTIFY_MARK_FLAG_INODE) {
fsnotify_destroy_inode_mark(mark);
inode = mark->i.inode;
}
...
if (inode)
iput(inode);
...
}
Obviously the intent was to capture the inode before it was set to NULL in
fsnotify_destory_inode_mark() so we wouldn't be leaking inodes forever.
Instead we leaked them (and exploded on umount)
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
It seems to me you are always returning 0 in fsnotify, when you should return
the error (EPERM) returned by fanotify.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe DUBOIS <jcd@tribudubois.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
remove_access_response() is supposed to have a void return, but was
returning 0;
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify groups need to respond to events which include permissions types.
To do so groups will send a response using write() on the fanotify_fd they
have open.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This is the backend work needed for fanotify to support the new
FS_OPEN_PERM and FS_ACCESS_PERM fsnotify events. This is done using the
new fsnotify secondary queue. No userspace interface is provided actually
respond to or request these events.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
introduce a new fsnotify hook, fsnotify_perm(), which is called from the
security code. This hook is used to allow fsnotify groups to make access
control decisions about events on the system. We also must change the
generic fsnotify function to return an error code if we intend these hooks
to be in any way useful.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify was using char * when it passed around the d_name.name string
internally but it is actually an unsigned char *. This patch switches
fsnotify to use unsigned and should silence some pointer signess warnings
which have popped out of xfs. I do not add -Wpointer-sign to the fsnotify
code as there are still issues with kstrdup and strlen which would pop
out needless warnings.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify needs to know the actual event added to queues so it can be
correctly checked for return values from userspace. To do this we need to
pass that information from the merger code back to the main even handling
routine. Currently that information is unused, but it will be.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Each group can define their own notification (and secondary_q) merge
function. Inotify does tail drop, fanotify does matching and drop which
can actually allocate a completely new event. But for fanotify to properly
deal with permissions events it needs to know the new event which was
ultimately added to the notification queue. This patch just implements a
void ** argument which is passed to the merge function. fanotify can use
this field to pass the new event back to higher layers.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
for fanotify to properly deal with permissions events
This introduces an ordering to fsnotify groups. With purely asynchronous
notification based "things" implementing fsnotify (inotify, dnotify) ordering
isn't particularly important. But if people want to use fsnotify for the
basis of sycronous notification or blocking notification ordering becomes
important.
eg. A Hierarchical Storage Management listener would need to get its event
before an AV scanner could get its event (since the HSM would need to
bring the data in for the AV scanner to scan.) Typically asynchronous notification
would want to run after the AV scanner made any relevant access decisions
so as to not send notification about an event that was denied.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify listeners may want to clear all marks. They may want to do this
to destroy all of their inode marks which have nothing but ignores.
Realistically this is useful for av vendors who update policy and want to
clear all of their cached allows.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Some users may want to truely ignore an inode even if it has been modified.
Say you are wanting a mount which contains a log file and you really don't
want any notification about that file. This patch allows the listener to
do that.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Some inodes a group may want to never hear about a set of events even if
the inode is modified. We add a new mark flag which indicates that these
marks should not have their ignored_mask cleared on modification.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
On inode modification we clear the ignored mask for all of the marks on the
inode. This allows userspace to ignore accesses to inodes until there is
something different.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Change the sys_fanotify_mark() system call so users can set ignored_masks
on inodes. Remember, if a user new sets a real mask, and only sets ignored
masks, the ignore will never be pinned in memory. Thus ignored_masks can
be lost under memory pressure and the user may again get events they
previously thought were ignored.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
When fanotify receives an event it will check event->mask & ~ignored_mask.
If no bits are left the event will not be sent.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The ignored_mask is a new mask which is part of fsnotify marks. A group's
should_send_event() function can use the ignored mask to determine that
certain events are not of interest. In particular if a group registers a
mask including FS_OPEN on a vfsmount they could add FS_OPEN to the
ignored_mask for individual inodes and not send open events for those
inodes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify marks must pin inodes in core. dnotify doesn't technically need to
since they are closed when the directory is closed. fanotify also need to
pin inodes in core as it works today. But the next step is to introduce
the concept of 'ignored masks' which is actually a mask of events for an
inode of no interest. I claim that these should be liberally sent to the
kernel and should not pin the inode in core. If the inode is brought back
in the listener will get an event it may have thought excluded, but this is
not a serious situation and one any listener should deal with.
This patch lays the ground work for non-pinning inode marks by using lazy
inode pinning. We do not pin a mark until it has a non-zero mask entry. If a
listener new sets a mask we never pin the inode.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
A number of validity checks on outgoing data are done in static inlines but
are only used in one place. Instead just do them where they are used for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify_mark_validate functions are all needlessly declared in headers as
static inlines. Instead just do the checks where they are needed for code
readability.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
split fanotify_remove_mark into fanotify_remove_inode_mark and
fanotify_remove_vfsmount_mark.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
the term 'vfsmount' isn't sensicle to userspace. instead call is 'mount.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Create a new fanotify_mark flag which indicates we should attach the mark
to the vfsmount holding the object referenced by dfd and pathname rather
than the inode itself.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify_add_mark now does nothing useful anymore, drop it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
No need to return the mark from fanotify_add_*_mark to fanotify_add_mark
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Recalculate masks in fanotify_add_mark, don't use
fanotify_update_object_mask. This gets us one step closers to readable
code.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Recalculate masks in fanotify_remove_mark, don't use
fanotify_update_object_mask. This gets us one step closers to readable
code.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify_update_mark() doesn't do much useful; remove it.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
infrastructure work to add and remove marks on vfsmounts. This should get
every set up except wiring the functions to the syscalls.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently should_send_event in fanotify only cares about marks on inodes.
This patch extends that interface to indicate that it cares about events
that happened on vfsmounts.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Per-mount watches allow groups to listen to fsnotify events on an entire
mount. This patch simply adds and initializes the fields needed in the
vfsmount struct to make this happen.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Much like inode-mark.c has all of the code dealing with marks on inodes
this patch adds a vfsmount-mark.c which has similar code but is intended
for marks on vfsmounts.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch adds the list and mask fields needed to support vfsmount marks.
These are the same fields fsnotify needs on an inode. They are not used,
just declared and we note where the cleanup hook should be (the function is
not yet defined)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently fsnotify_init_mark sets some fields to 0/NULL. Some users
already used some sorts of zalloc, some didn't. This patch uses memset to
explicitly zero everything in the fsnotify_mark when it is initialized so we
don't have to be careful if fields are later added to marks.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently all marking is done by functions in inode-mark.c. Some of this
is pretty generic and should be instead done in a generic function and we
should only put the inode specific code in inode-mark.c
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Pass the process identifiers of the triggering processes to fanotify
listeners: this information is useful for event filtering and logging.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Code cleanup which does the fd creation work seperately from the userspace
metadata creation. It fits better with the other code.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Please note that you need the patch below in addition, otherwise the
syscall wrapper stuff won't work on those 32 bit architectures which enable
the wrappers.
When enabled the syscall wrapper defines always take long parameters and then
cast them to whatever is needed. This approach doesn't work for the 32 bit
case where the original syscall takes a long long parameter, since we would
lose the upper 32 bits.
So syscalls with 64 bit arguments are special cases wrt to syscall wrappers
and enp up in the ugliness below (see also sys_fallocate). In addition these
special cased syscall wrappers have the drawback that ftrace syscall tracing
doesn't work on them, since they don't get defined by using the usual macros.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify references anon_inode_getfd(), which is only available with
ANON_INODES enabled. Presently this bails out with the following:
LD vmlinux
fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_fanotify_init':
(.text+0x26d1c): undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
which is trivially corrected by adding an ANON_INODES select.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Send events to userspace by reading the file descriptor from fanotify_init().
One will get blocks of data which look like:
struct fanotify_event_metadata {
__u32 event_len;
__u32 vers;
__s32 fd;
__u64 mask;
__s64 pid;
__u64 cookie;
} __attribute__ ((packed));
Simple code to retrieve and deal with events is below
while ((len = read(fan_fd, buf, sizeof(buf))) > 0) {
struct fanotify_event_metadata *metadata;
metadata = (void *)buf;
while(FAN_EVENT_OK(metadata, len)) {
[PROCESS HERE!!]
if (metadata->fd >= 0 && close(metadata->fd) != 0)
goto fail;
metadata = FAN_EVENT_NEXT(metadata, len);
}
}
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
NAME
fanotify_mark - add, remove, or modify an fanotify mark on a
filesystem object
SYNOPSIS
int fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, u64 mask,
int dfd, const char *pathname)
DESCRIPTION
fanotify_mark() is used to add remove or modify a mark on a filesystem
object. Marks are used to indicate that the fanotify group is
interested in events which occur on that object. At this point in
time marks may only be added to files and directories.
fanotify_fd must be a file descriptor returned by fanotify_init()
The flags field must contain exactly one of the following:
FAN_MARK_ADD - or the bits in mask and ignored mask into the mark
FAN_MARK_REMOVE - bitwise remove the bits in mask and ignored mark
from the mark
The following values can be OR'd into the flags field:
FAN_MARK_DONT_FOLLOW - same meaning as O_NOFOLLOW as described in open(2)
FAN_MARK_ONLYDIR - same meaning as O_DIRECTORY as described in open(2)
dfd may be any of the following:
AT_FDCWD: the object will be lookup up based on pathname similar
to open(2)
file descriptor of a directory: if pathname is not NULL the
object to modify will be lookup up similar to openat(2)
file descriptor of the final object: if pathname is NULL the
object to modify will be the object referenced by dfd
The mask is the bitwise OR of the set of events of interest such as:
FAN_ACCESS - object was accessed (read)
FAN_MODIFY - object was modified (write)
FAN_CLOSE_WRITE - object was writable and was closed
FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE - object was read only and was closed
FAN_OPEN - object was opened
FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD - interested in objected that happen to
children. Only relavent when the object
is a directory
FAN_Q_OVERFLOW - event queue overflowed (not implemented)
RETURN VALUE
On success, this system call returns 0. On error, -1 is
returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags.
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in mask.
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in ignored_mask.
EINVAL fanotify_fd is not a file descriptor as returned by
fanotify_init()
EBADF fanotify_fd is not a valid file descriptor
EBADF dfd is not a valid file descriptor and path is NULL.
ENOTDIR dfd is not a directory and path is not NULL
EACCESS no search permissions on some part of the path
ENENT file not found
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available.
CONFORMING TO
These system calls are Linux-specific.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch simply declares the new sys_fanotify_mark syscall
int fanotify_mark(int fanotify_fd, unsigned int flags, u64_mask,
int dfd const char *pathname)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
NAME
fanotify_init - initialize an fanotify group
SYNOPSIS
int fanotify_init(unsigned int flags, unsigned int event_f_flags, int priority);
DESCRIPTION
fanotify_init() initializes a new fanotify instance and returns a file
descriptor associated with the new fanotify event queue.
The following values can be OR'd into the flags field:
FAN_NONBLOCK Set the O_NONBLOCK file status flag on the new open file description.
Using this flag saves extra calls to fcntl(2) to achieve the same
result.
FAN_CLOEXEC Set the close-on-exec (FD_CLOEXEC) flag on the new file descriptor.
See the description of the O_CLOEXEC flag in open(2) for reasons why
this may be useful.
The event_f_flags argument is unused and must be set to 0
The priority argument is unused and must be set to 0
RETURN VALUE
On success, this system call return a new file descriptor. On error, -1 is
returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
EINVAL An invalid value was specified in flags.
EINVAL A non-zero valid was passed in event_f_flags or in priority
ENFILE The system limit on the total number of file descriptors has been reached.
ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory is available.
CONFORMING TO
These system calls are Linux-specific.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch defines a new syscall fanotify_init() of the form:
int sys_fanotify_init(unsigned int flags, unsigned int event_f_flags,
unsigned int priority)
This syscall is used to create and fanotify group. This is very similar to
the inotify_init() syscall.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently if 2 events are going to be merged on the notication queue with
different masks the second event will be cloned and will replace the first
event. However if this notification queue is the only place referencing
the event in question there is no reason not to just update the event in
place. We can tell this if the event->refcnt == 1. Since we hold a
reference for each queue this event is on we know that when refcnt == 1
this is the only queue. The other concern is that it might be about to be
added to a new queue, but this can't be the case since fsnotify holds a
reference on the event until it is finished adding it to queues.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Instead of just merging fanotify events if they are exactly the same, merge
notification events with different masks. To do this we have to clone the
old event, update the mask in the new event with the new merged mask, and
put the new event in place of the old event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify listeners get an open file descriptor to the object in question so
the ordering of operations is not as important as in other notification
systems. inotify will drop events if the last event in the event FIFO is
the same as the current event. This patch will drop fanotify events if
they are the same as another event anywhere in the event FIFO.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is a novel file notification system which bases notification on
giving userspace both an event type (open, close, read, write) and an open
file descriptor to the object in question. This should address a number of
races and problems with other notification systems like inotify and dnotify
and should allow the future implementation of blocking or access controlled
notification. These are useful for on access scanners or hierachical storage
management schemes.
This patch just implements the basics of the fsnotify functions.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
All callers to fsnotify_find_mark_entry() except one take and
release inode->i_lock around the call. Take the lock inside
fsnotify_find_mark_entry() instead.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
nomenclature change. Used to call things 'entries' but now we just call
them 'marks.' Do those changes for dnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
previously I used mark_entry when talking about marks on inodes. The
_entry is pretty useless. Just use "mark" instead.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Some fsnotify operations send a struct file. This is more information than
we technically need. We instead send a struct path in all cases instead of
sometimes a path and sometimes a file.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To differentiate between inode and vfsmount (or other future) types of
marks we add a flags field and set the inode bit on inode marks (the only
currently supported type of mark)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The addition of marks on vfs mounts will be simplified if the inode
specific parts of a mark and the vfsmnt specific parts of a mark are
actually in a union so naming can be easy. This patch just implements the
inode struct and the union.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
To ensure that a group will not duplicate events when it receives it based
on the vfsmount and the inode should_send_event test we should distinguish
those two cases. We pass a vfsmount to this function so groups can make
their own determinations.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
currently all of the notification systems implemented select which inodes
they care about and receive messages only about those inodes (or the
children of those inodes.) This patch begins to flesh out fsnotify support
for the concept of listeners that want to hear notification for an inode
accessed below a given monut point. This patch implements a second list
of fsnotify groups to hold these types of groups and a second global mask
to hold the events of interest for this type of group.
The reason we want a second group list and mask is because the inode based
notification should_send_event support which makes each group look for a mark
on the given inode. With one nfsmount listener that means that every group would
have to take the inode->i_lock, look for their mark, not find one, and return
for every operation. By seperating vfsmount from inode listeners only when
there is a inode listener will the inode groups have to look for their
mark and take the inode lock. vfsmount listeners will have to grab the lock and
look for a mark but there should be fewer of them, and one vfsmount listener
won't cause the i_lock to be grabbed and released for every fsnotify group
on every io operation.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently all fsnotify groups are added immediately to the
fsnotify_inode_groups list upon creation. This means, even groups with no
watches (common for audit) will be on the global tracking list and will
get checked for every event. This patch adds groups to the global list on
when the first inode mark is added to the group.
Signed-of-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently the comments say that group->num_marks is held because the group
is on the fsnotify_group list. This isn't strictly the case, we really
just hold the num_marks for the life of the group (any time group->refcnt
is != 0) This patch moves the initialization stuff and makes it clear when
it is really being held.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Simple renaming patch. fsnotify is about to support mount point listeners
so I am renaming fsnotify_groups and fsnotify_mask to indicate these are lists
used only for groups which have watches on inodes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_obtain_group was intended to be able to find an already existing
group. Nothing uses that functionality. This just renames it to
fsnotify_alloc_group so it is clear what it is doing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_obtain_group uses kzalloc but then proceedes to set things to 0.
This patch just deletes those useless lines.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The original fsnotify interface has a group-num which was intended to be
able to find a group after it was added. I no longer think this is a
necessary thing to do and so we remove the group_num.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_replace_event need to lock both the old and the new event. This
causes lockdep to get all pissed off since it dosn't know this is safe.
It's safe in this case since the new event is impossible to be reached from
other places in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify would like to clone events already on its notification list, make
changes to the new event, and then replace the old event on the list with
the new event. This patch implements the replace functionality of that
process.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_clone_event will take an event, clone it, and return the cloned
event to the caller. Since events may be in use by multiple fsnotify
groups simultaneously certain event entries (such as the mask) cannot be
changed after the event was created. Since fanotify would like to merge
events happening on the same file it needs a new clean event to work with
so it can change any fields it wishes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify only wishes to merge a new event with the last event on the
notification fifo. fanotify is willing to merge any events including by
means of bitwise OR masks of multiple events together. This patch moves
the inotify event merging logic out of the generic fsnotify notification.c
and into the inotify code. This allows each use of fsnotify to provide
their own merge functionality.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify needs a path in order to open an fd to the object which changed.
Currently notifications to inode's parents are done using only the inode.
For some parental notification we have the entire file, send that so
fanotify can use it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is going to need to look at file->private_data to know if an event
should be sent or not. This passes the data (which might be a file,
dentry, inode, or none) to the should_send function calls so fanotify can
get that information when available
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fanotify is only interested in event types which contain enough information
to open the original file in the context of the fanotify listener. Since
fanotify may not want to send events if that data isn't present we pass
the data type to the should_send_event function call so fanotify can express
its lack of interest.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify was supposed to have a dmesg printk ratelimitor which would cause
inotify to only emit one message per boot. The static bool was never set
so it kept firing messages. This patch correctly limits warnings in multiple
places.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Prior to 2.6.31 inotify would not reuse watch descriptors until all of
them had been used at least once. After the rewrite inotify would reuse
watch descriptors. The selinux utility 'restorecond' was found to have
problems when watch descriptors were reused. This patch reverts to the
pre inotify rewrite behavior to not reuse watch descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify event initialization is done entry by entry with almost everything
set to either 0 or NULL. Use kmem_cache_zalloc and only initialize things
that need non-zero initialization. Also means we don't have to change
initialization entries based on the config options.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify_free_mark casts directly from an fsnotify_mark_entry to an
inotify_inode_mark_entry. This works, but should use container_of instead
for future proofing.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Currently fsnotify defines a static fsnotify event which is sent when a
group overflows its allotted queue length. This patch just allocates that
event from the event cache rather than defining it statically. There is no
known reason that the current implementation is wrong, but this makes sure the
event is initialized and created like any other.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch allows a task to add a second fsnotify mark to an inode for the
same group. This mark will be added to the end of the inode's list and
this will never be found by the stand fsnotify_find_mark() function. This
is useful if a user wants to add a new mark before removing the old one.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Simple copy fsnotify information from one mark to another in preparation
for the second mark to replace the first.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
This patch moves all of the idr editing operations into their own idr
functions. It makes it easier to prove locking correctness and to to
understand the code flow.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Make sure that s_umount is acquired *before* we drop the final
active reference; we still have the fast path (atomic_dec_unless)
and we have gotten rid of the window between the moment when
s_active hits zero and s_umount is acquired. Which simplifies
the living hell out of grab_super() and inotify pin_to_kill()
stuff.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify:
inotify: don't leak user struct on inotify release
inotify: race use after free/double free in inotify inode marks
inotify: clean up the inotify_add_watch out path
Inotify: undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'
Manual merge to remove duplicate "select ANON_INODES" from Kconfig file
inotify_new_group() receives a get_uid-ed user_struct and saves the
reference on group->inotify_data.user. The problem is that free_uid() is
never called on it.
Issue seem to be introduced by 63c882a0 (inotify: reimplement inotify
using fsnotify) after 2.6.30.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
There is a race in the inotify add/rm watch code. A task can find and
remove a mark which doesn't have all of it's references. This can
result in a use after free/double free situation.
Task A Task B
------------ -----------
inotify_new_watch()
allocate a mark (refcnt == 1)
add it to the idr
inotify_rm_watch()
inotify_remove_from_idr()
fsnotify_put_mark()
refcnt hits 0, free
take reference because we are on idr
[at this point it is a use after free]
[time goes on]
refcnt may hit 0 again, double free
The fix is to take the reference BEFORE the object can be found in the
idr.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
inotify_add_watch explictly frees the unused inode mark, but it can just
use the generic code. Just do that.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Fix:
fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_inotify_init1':
summary.c:(.text+0x347a4): undefined reference to `anon_inode_getfd'
found by kautobuild with arms bcmring_defconfig, which ends up with
INOTIFY_USER enabled (through the 'default y') but leaves ANON_INODES
unset. However, inotify_user.c uses anon_inode_getfd().
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
CONFIG_INOTIFY_USER defined but CONFIG_ANON_INODES undefined will result
in the following build failure:
LD vmlinux
fs/built-in.o: In function 'sys_inotify_init1':
(.text.sys_inotify_init1+0x22c): undefined reference to 'anon_inode_getfd'
fs/built-in.o: In function `sys_inotify_init1':
(.text.sys_inotify_init1+0x22c): relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_26 against 'anon_inode_getfd'
make[2]: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
inotify will WARN() if it finds that the idr and the fsnotify internals
somehow got out of sync. It was only supposed to do this once but due
to this stupid bug it would warn every single time a problem was
detected.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since commit 7e790dd5fc ("inotify: fix
error paths in inotify_update_watch") inotify changed the manor in which
it gave watch descriptors back to userspace. Previous to this commit
inotify acted like the following:
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 2
but after this patch inotify would return watch descriptors like so:
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
inotify_rm_watch(X, 1);
inotify_add_watch(X, Y, Z) = 1
which I saw as equivalent to opening an fd where
open(file) = 1;
close(1);
open(file) = 1;
seemed perfectly reasonable. The issue is that quite a bit of userspace
apparently relies on the behavior in which watch descriptors will not be
quickly reused. KDE relies on it, I know some selinux packages rely on
it, and I have heard complaints from other random sources such as debian
bug 558981.
Although the man page implies what we do is ok, we broke userspace so
this patch almost reverts us to the old behavior. It is still slightly
racey and I have patches that would fix that, but they are rather large
and this will fix it for all real world cases. The race is as follows:
- task1 creates a watch and blocks in idr_new_watch() before it updates
the hint.
- task2 creates a watch and updates the hint.
- task1 updates the hint with it's older wd
- task removes the watch created by task2
- task adds a new watch and will reuse the wd originally given to task2
it requires moving some locking around the hint (last_wd) but this should
solve it for the real world and be -stable safe.
As a side effect this patch papers over a bug in the lib/idr code which
is causing a large number WARN's to pop on people's system and many
reports in kerneloops.org. I'm working on the root cause of that idr
bug seperately but this should make inotify immune to that issue.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler. Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code. Remove them.
Cc: Jan Harkes <jaharkes@cs.cmu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
If we do rename a dir entry, like this:
rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename1", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2")
rename("/tmp/ino7UrgoJ.rename2", "/tmp/ino7UrgoJ")
The duplicate events should be coalesced into a single event. But those two
events do not be coalesced into a single event, due to some bad check in
event_compare(). It can not match the two NULL inodes as the same event.
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify_add_mark is supposed to add a mark to the g_list and i_list and to
set the group and inode for the mark. fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry uses
the fact that ->group != NULL to know if this group should be destroyed or
if it's already been done.
But fsnotify_add_mark sets the group and inode before it actually adds the
mark to the i_list and g_list. This can result in a race in inotify, it
requires 3 threads.
sys_inotify_add_watch("file") sys_inotify_add_watch("file") sys_inotify_rm_watch([a])
inotify_update_watch()
inotify_new_watch()
inotify_add_to_idr()
^--- returns wd = [a]
inotfiy_update_watch()
inotify_new_watch()
inotify_add_to_idr()
fsnotify_add_mark()
^--- returns wd = [b]
returns to userspace;
inotify_idr_find([a])
^--- gives us the pointer from task 1
fsnotify_add_mark()
^--- this is going to set the mark->group and mark->inode fields, but will
return -EEXIST because of the race with [b].
fsnotify_destroy_mark()
^--- since ->group != NULL we call back
into inotify_freeing_mark() which calls
inotify_remove_from_idr([a])
since fsnotify_add_mark() failed we call:
inotify_remove_from_idr([a]) <------WHOOPS it's not in the idr, this could
have been any entry added later!
The fix is to make sure we don't set mark->group until we are sure the mark is
on the inode and fsnotify_add_mark will return success.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Seperating the addition and update of marks in inotify resulted in a
regression in that inotify never gets events. The inotify group mask is
always 0. This mask should be updated any time a new mark is added.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
0db501bd06 introduced a regresion in that it now sends a nul
terminator but the length accounting when checking for space or
reporting to userspace did not take this into account. This corrects
all of the rounding logic.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
When an event has no pathname, there's no need to pad it with a null byte and
therefore generate an inotify_event sized block of zeros. This fixes a
regression introduced by commit 0db501bd06 where
my system wouldn't finish booting because some process was being confused by
this.
Signed-off-by: Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0'
byte to user space after the filename. Since the rewrite that
terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of
event_size. Ouch!
So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to
set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the
strange nul_inotify_event. I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero
will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more
efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to
do.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The are races around the idr storage of inotify watches. It's possible
that a watch could be found from sys_inotify_rm_watch() in the idr, but it
could be removed from the idr before that code does it's removal. Move the
locking and the refcnt'ing so that these have to happen atomically.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
If an inotify watch is left in the idr when an fsnotify group is destroyed
this will lead to a BUG. This is not a dangerous situation and really
indicates a programming bug and leak of memory. This patch changes it to
use a WARN and a printk rather than killing people's boxes.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
There is nothing known wrong with the inotify watch addition/modification
but this patch seperates the two code paths to make them each easy to
verify as correct.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The inotify_add_watch man page specifies that inotify_add_watch() will
return a non-negative integer. However, historically the inotify
watches started at 1, not at 0.
Turns out that the inotifywait program provided by the inotify-tools
package doesn't properly handle a 0 watch descriptor. In 7e790dd5 we
changed from starting at 1 to starting at 0. This patch starts at 1,
just like in previous kernels, but also just like in previous kernels
it's possible for it to wrap back to 0. This preserves the kernel
functionality exactly like it was before the patch (neither method broke
the spec)
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In f44aebcc the tail drop logic of events with no file backing
(q_overflow and in_ignored) was reversed so IN_IGNORED events would
never be tail dropped. This now means that Q_OVERFLOW events are NOT
tail dropped. The fix is to not tail drop IN_IGNORED, but to tail drop
Q_OVERFLOW.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
inotify decides if private data it passed to get added to an event was
used by checking list_empty(). But it's possible that the event may
have been dequeued and the private event removed so it would look empty.
The fix is to use the return code from fsnotify_add_notify_event rather
than looking at the list.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
inotify can have a watchs removed under filesystem reclaim.
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.31-rc2 #16
---------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} -> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} usage.
khubd/217 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(iprune_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<c10ba899>] invalidate_inodes+0x20/0xe3
{IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} state was registered at:
[<c10536ab>] __lock_acquire+0x2c9/0xac4
[<c1053f45>] lock_acquire+0x9f/0xc2
[<c1308872>] __mutex_lock_common+0x2d/0x323
[<c1308c00>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2e/0x36
[<c10ba6ff>] shrink_icache_memory+0x38/0x1b2
[<c108bfb6>] shrink_slab+0xe2/0x13c
[<c108c3e1>] kswapd+0x3d1/0x55d
[<c10449b5>] kthread+0x66/0x6b
[<c1003fdf>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
[<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
Two things are needed to fix this. First we need a method to tell
fsnotify_create_event() to use GFP_NOFS and second we need to stop using
one global IN_IGNORED event and allocate them one at a time. This solves
current issues with multiple IN_IGNORED on a queue having tail drop
problems and simplifies the allocations since we don't have to worry about
two tasks opperating on the IGNORED event concurrently.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify drops new events when they are the same as the tail event on the
queue to be sent to userspace. The problem is that if the event comes with
a path we forget to break out of the switch statement and fall into the
code path which matches on events that do not have any type of file backed
information (things like IN_UNMOUNT and IN_Q_OVERFLOW). The problem is
that this code thinks all such events should be dropped. Fix is to add a
break.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify drops events if the last event on the queue is the same as the
current event. But it does 2 things wrong. First it is comparing old->inode
with new->inode. But after an event if put on the queue the ->inode is no
longer allowed to be used. It's possible between the last event and this new
event the inode could be reused and we would falsely match the inode's memory
address between two differing events.
The second problem is that when a file is removed fsnotify is passed the
negative dentry for the removed object rather than the postive dentry from
immediately before the removal. This mean the (broken) inotify tail drop code
was matching the NULL ->inode of differing events.
The fix is to check the file name which is stored with events when doing the
tail drop instead of wrongly checking the address of the stored ->inode.
Reported-by: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
fsnotify doens't give the user anything. If someone chooses inotify or
dnotify it should build fsnotify, if they don't select one it shouldn't be
built. This patch changes fsnotify to be a def_bool=n and makes everything
else select it. Also fixes the issue people complained about on lwn where
gdm hung because they didn't have inotify and they didn't get the inotify
build option.....
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify_update_watch could leave things in a horrid state on a number of
error paths. We could try to remove idr entries that didn't exist, we
could send an IN_IGNORED to userspace for watches that don't exist, and a
bit of other stupidity. Clean these up by doing the idr addition before we
put the mark on the inode since we can clean that up on error and getting
off the inode's mark list is hard.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify_add_watch had a couple of problems. The biggest being that if
inotify_add_watch was called on the same inode twice (to update or change the
event mask) a refence was taken on the original inode mark by
fsnotify_find_mark_entry but was not being dropped at the end of the
inotify_add_watch call. Thus if inotify_rm_watch was called although the mark
was removed from the inode, the refcnt wouldn't hit zero and we would leak
memory.
Reported-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The inotify rewrite forgot to drop the inotify watch use cound when a watch
was removed. This means that a single inotify fd can only ever register a
maximum of /proc/sys/fs/max_user_watches even if some of those had been
freed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
The per-user inotify_devs value is incremented each time a new file is
allocated, but never decremented. This led to inotify_init failing after a
limited number of calls.
Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify_destroy_mark_entry could get called twice for the same mark since it
is called directly in inotify_rm_watch and when the mark is being destroyed for
another reason. As an example assume that the file being watched was just
deleted so inotify_destroy_mark_entry would get called from the path
fsnotify_inoderemove() -> fsnotify_destroy_marks_by_inode() ->
fsnotify_destroy_mark_entry() -> inotify_destroy_mark_entry(). If this
happened at the same time as userspace tried to remove a watch via
inotify_rm_watch we could attempt to remove the mark from the idr twice and
could thus double dec the ref cnt and potentially could be in a use after
free/double free situation. The fix is to have inotify_rm_watch use the
generic recursive safe fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry() so we are sure the
inotify_destroy_mark_entry() function can only be called one.
This patch also renames the function to inotify_ingored_remove_idr() so it is
clear what is actually going on in the function.
Hopefully this fixes:
[ 20.342058] idr_remove called for id=20 which is not allocated.
[ 20.348000] Pid: 1860, comm: udevd Not tainted 2.6.30-tip #1077
[ 20.353933] Call Trace:
[ 20.356410] [<ffffffff811a82b7>] idr_remove+0x115/0x18f
[ 20.361737] [<ffffffff8134259d>] ? _spin_lock+0x6d/0x75
[ 20.367061] [<ffffffff8111640a>] ? inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xa3/0xcf
[ 20.373771] [<ffffffff8111641e>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0xb7/0xcf
[ 20.380306] [<ffffffff81115913>] inotify_freeing_mark+0xe/0x10
[ 20.386238] [<ffffffff8111410d>] fsnotify_destroy_mark_by_entry+0x143/0x170
[ 20.393293] [<ffffffff811163a3>] inotify_destroy_mark_entry+0x3c/0xcf
[ 20.399829] [<ffffffff811164d1>] sys_inotify_rm_watch+0x9b/0xc6
[ 20.405850] [<ffffffff8100bcdb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Ziljlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Most fsnotify listeners (all but inotify) do not care about marks being
freed. Allow groups to set freeing_mark to null and do not call any
function if it is set that way.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
inotify and dnotify will both indicate that they want any event which came
from a child inode. The fix is to mask off FS_EVENT_ON_CHILD when deciding
if inotify or dnotify is interested in a given event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
entry->lock is needed to make sure entry->mask does not change while
manipulating it. In dnotify_should_send_event() we don't care if we get an
old or a new mask value out of this entry so there is no point it taking
the lock.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
dnotify_should send event assigned a bool using ?true:false when computing
a bit operation. This is poitless and the bool type does this for us.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Reimplement inotify_user using fsnotify. This should be feature for feature
exactly the same as the original inotify_user. This does not make any changes
to the in kernel inotify feature used by audit. Those patches (and the eventual
removal of in kernel inotify) will come after the new inotify_user proves to be
working correctly.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When an fs is unmounted with an fsnotify mark entry attached to one of its
inodes we need to destroy that mark entry and we also (like inotify) send
an unmount event.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch pins any inodes with an fsnotify mark in core. The idea is that
as soon as the mark is removed from the inode->fsnotify_mark_entries list
the inode will be iput. In reality is doesn't quite work exactly this way.
The igrab will happen when the mark is added to an inode, but the iput will
happen when the inode pointer is NULL'd inside the mark.
It's possible that 2 racing things will try to remove the mark from
different directions. One may try to remove the mark because of an
explicit request and one might try to remove it because the inode was
deleted. It's possible that the removal because of inode deletion will
remove the mark from the inode's list, but the removal by explicit request
will actually set entry->inode == NULL; and call the iput. This is safe.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
inotify needs per group information attached to events. This patch allows
groups to attach private information and implements a callback so that
information can be freed when an event is being destroyed.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
As part of the standard inotify events it includes a correlation cookie
between two dentry move operations. This patch includes the same behaviour
in fsnotify events. It is needed so that inotify userspace can be
implemented on top of fsnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
When inotify wants to send events to a directory about a child it includes
the name of the original file. This patch collects that filename and makes
it available for notification.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
inotify needs to do asyc notification in which event information is stored
on a queue until the listener is ready to receive it. This patch
implements a generic notification queue for inotify (and later fanotify) to
store events to be sent at a later time.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reimplement dnotify using fsnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
inotify and dnotify both use a similar parent notification mechanism. We
add a generic parent notification mechanism to fsnotify for both of these
to use. This new machanism also adds the dentry flag optimization which
exists for inotify to dnotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
This patch creates a way for fsnotify groups to attach marks to inodes.
These marks have little meaning to the generic fsnotify infrastructure
and thus their meaning should be interpreted by the group that attached
them to the inode's list.
dnotify and inotify will make use of these markings to indicate which
inodes are of interest to their respective groups. But this implementation
has the useful property that in the future other listeners could actually
use the marks for the exact opposite reason, aka to indicate which inodes
it had NO interest in.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
fsnotify is a backend for filesystem notification. fsnotify does
not provide any userspace interface but does provide the basis
needed for other notification schemes such as dnotify. fsnotify
can be extended to be the backend for inotify or the upcoming
fanotify. fsnotify provides a mechanism for "groups" to register for
some set of filesystem events and to then deliver those events to
those groups for processing.
fsnotify has a number of benefits, the first being actually shrinking the size
of an inode. Before fsnotify to support both dnotify and inotify an inode had
unsigned long i_dnotify_mask; /* Directory notify events */
struct dnotify_struct *i_dnotify; /* for directory notifications */
struct list_head inotify_watches; /* watches on this inode */
struct mutex inotify_mutex; /* protects the watches list
But with fsnotify this same functionallity (and more) is done with just
__u32 i_fsnotify_mask; /* all events for this inode */
struct hlist_head i_fsnotify_mark_entries; /* marks on this inode */
That's right, inotify, dnotify, and fanotify all in 64 bits. We used that
much space just in inotify_watches alone, before this patch set.
fsnotify object lifetime and locking is MUCH better than what we have today.
inotify locking is incredibly complex. See 8f7b0ba1c8 as an example of
what's been busted since inception. inotify needs to know internal semantics
of superblock destruction and unmounting to function. The inode pinning and
vfs contortions are horrible.
no fsnotify implementers do allocation under locks. This means things like
f04b30de3 which (due to an overabundance of caution) changes GFP_KERNEL to
GFP_NOFS can be reverted. There are no longer any allocation rules when using
or implementing your own fsnotify listener.
fsnotify paves the way for fanotify. In brief fanotify is a notification
mechanism that delivers the lisener both an 'event' and an open file descriptor
to the object in question. This means that fanotify is pathname agnostic.
Some on lkml may not care for the original companies or users that pushed for
TALPA, but fanotify was designed with flexibility and input for other users in
mind. The readahead group expressed interest in fanotify as it could be used
to profile disk access on boot without breaking the audit system. The desktop
search groups have also expressed interest in fanotify as it solves a number
of the race conditions and problems present with managing inotify when more
than a limited number of specific files are of interest. fanotify can provide
for a userspace access control system which makes it a clean interface for AV
vendors to hook without trying to do binary patching on the syscall table,
LSM, and everywhere else they do their things today. With this patch series
fanotify can be implemented in less than 1200 lines of easy to review code.
Almost all of which is the socket based user interface.
This patch series builds fsnotify to the point that it can implement
dnotify and inotify_user. Patches exist and will be sent soon after
acceptance to finish the in kernel inotify conversion (audit) and implement
fanotify.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
There is what we believe to be a false positive reported by lockdep.
inotify_inode_queue_event() => take inotify_mutex => kernel_event() =>
kmalloc() => SLOB => alloc_pages_node() => page reclaim => slab reclaim =>
dcache reclaim => inotify_inode_is_dead => take inotify_mutex => deadlock
The plan is to fix this via lockdep annotation, but that is proving to be
quite involved.
The patch flips the allocation over to GFP_NFS to shut the warning up, for
the 2.6.30 release.
Hopefully we will fix this for real in 2.6.31. I'll queue a patch in -mm
to switch it back to GFP_KERNEL so we don't forget.
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
2.6.30-rc2-next-20090417 #203
---------------------------------
inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-W} usage.
kswapd0/380 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(&inode->inotify_mutex){+.+.?.}, at: [<ffffffff8112f1b5>] inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0
{RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
[<ffffffff81079188>] mark_held_locks+0x68/0x90
[<ffffffff810792a5>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0xf5/0x100
[<ffffffff810f5261>] __kmalloc_node+0x31/0x1e0
[<ffffffff81130652>] kernel_event+0xe2/0x190
[<ffffffff81130826>] inotify_dev_queue_event+0x126/0x230
[<ffffffff8112f096>] inotify_inode_queue_event+0xc6/0x110
[<ffffffff8110444d>] vfs_create+0xcd/0x140
[<ffffffff8110825d>] do_filp_open+0x88d/0xa20
[<ffffffff810f6b68>] do_sys_open+0x98/0x140
[<ffffffff810f6c50>] sys_open+0x20/0x30
[<ffffffff8100c272>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
[<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
irq event stamp: 690455
hardirqs last enabled at (690455): [<ffffffff81564fe4>] _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x44/0x80
hardirqs last disabled at (690454): [<ffffffff81565372>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x32/0xa0
softirqs last enabled at (690178): [<ffffffff81052282>] __do_softirq+0x202/0x220
softirqs last disabled at (690157): [<ffffffff8100d50c>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x50
other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by kswapd0/380:
#0: (shrinker_rwsem){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff810d0bd7>] shrink_slab+0x37/0x180
#1: (&type->s_umount_key#17){++++..}, at: [<ffffffff8110cfbf>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x11f/0x1e0
stack backtrace:
Pid: 380, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.30-rc2-next-20090417 #203
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff810789ef>] print_usage_bug+0x19f/0x200
[<ffffffff81018bff>] ? save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50
[<ffffffff81078f0b>] mark_lock+0x4bb/0x6d0
[<ffffffff810799e0>] ? check_usage_forwards+0x0/0xc0
[<ffffffff8107b142>] __lock_acquire+0xc62/0x1ae0
[<ffffffff810f478c>] ? slob_free+0x10c/0x370
[<ffffffff8107c0a1>] lock_acquire+0xe1/0x120
[<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0
[<ffffffff81562d43>] mutex_lock_nested+0x63/0x420
[<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0
[<ffffffff8112f1b5>] ? inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0
[<ffffffff81012fe9>] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10
[<ffffffff81077165>] ? lock_release_holdtime+0x35/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8112f1b5>] inotify_inode_is_dead+0x35/0xb0
[<ffffffff8110c9dc>] dentry_iput+0xbc/0xe0
[<ffffffff8110cb23>] d_kill+0x33/0x60
[<ffffffff8110ce23>] __shrink_dcache_sb+0x2d3/0x350
[<ffffffff8110cffa>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x15a/0x1e0
[<ffffffff810d0cc5>] shrink_slab+0x125/0x180
[<ffffffff810d1540>] kswapd+0x560/0x7a0
[<ffffffff810ce160>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x2c0
[<ffffffff81065a30>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40
[<ffffffff8107953d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff810d0fe0>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x7a0
[<ffffffff8106555b>] kthread+0x5b/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100d40a>] child_rip+0xa/0x20
[<ffffffff8100cdd0>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
[<ffffffff81065500>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
[<ffffffff8100d400>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20
[eparis@redhat.com: fix audit too]
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To be on the safe side, it should be less fragile to exclude I_NEW inodes
from inode list scans by default (unless there is an important reason to
have them).
Normally they will get excluded (eg. by zero refcount or writecount etc),
however it is a bit fragile for list walkers to know exactly what parts of
the inode state is set up and valid to test when in I_NEW. So along these
lines, move I_NEW checks upward as well (sometimes taking I_FREEING etc
checks with them too -- this shouldn't be a problem should it?)
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
If userspace supplies an invalid pointer to a read() of an inotify
instance, the inotify device's event list mutex is unlocked twice.
This causes an unbalance which effectively leaves the data structure
unprotected, and we can trigger oopses by accessing the inotify
instance from different tasks concurrently.
The best fix (contributed largely by Linus) is a total rewrite
of the function in question:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> The thing to notice is that:
>
> - locking is done in just one place, and there is no question about it
> not having an unlock.
>
> - that whole double-while(1)-loop thing is gone.
>
> - use multiple functions to make nesting and error handling sane
>
> - do error testing after doing the things you always need to do, ie do
> this:
>
> mutex_lock(..)
> ret = function_call();
> mutex_unlock(..)
>
> .. test ret here ..
>
> instead of doing conditional exits with unlocking or freeing.
>
> So if the code is written in this way, it may still be buggy, but at least
> it's not buggy because of subtle "forgot to unlock" or "forgot to free"
> issues.
>
> This _always_ unlocks if it locked, and it always frees if it got a
> non-error kevent.
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The problems lie in the types used for some inotify interfaces, both at the kernel level and at the glibc level. This mail addresses the kernel problem. I will follow up with some suggestions for glibc changes.
For the sys_inotify_rm_watch() interface, the type of the 'wd' argument is
currently 'u32', it should be '__s32' . That is Robert's suggestion, and
is consistent with the other declarations of watch descriptors in the
kernel source, in particular, the inotify_event structure in
include/linux/inotify.h:
struct inotify_event {
__s32 wd; /* watch descriptor */
__u32 mask; /* watch mask */
__u32 cookie; /* cookie to synchronize two events */
__u32 len; /* length (including nulls) of name */
char name[0]; /* stub for possible name */
};
The patch makes the changes needed for inotify_rm_watch().
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Robert Love <rlove@google.com>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Creating a generic filesystem notification interface, fsnotify, which will be
used by inotify, dnotify, and eventually fanotify is really starting to
clutter the fs directory. This patch simply moves inotify and dnotify into
fs/notify/inotify and fs/notify/dnotify respectively to make both current fs/
and future notification tidier.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>