linux/fs
Linus Torvalds 9c225f2655 vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX
Our write() system call has always been atomic in the sense that you get
the expected thread-safe contiguous write, but we haven't actually
guaranteed that concurrent writes are serialized wrt f_pos accesses, so
threads (or processes) that share a file descriptor and use "write()"
concurrently would quite likely overwrite each others data.

This violates POSIX.1-2008/SUSv4 Section XSI 2.9.7 that says:

 "2.9.7 Thread Interactions with Regular File Operations

  All of the following functions shall be atomic with respect to each
  other in the effects specified in POSIX.1-2008 when they operate on
  regular files or symbolic links: [...]"

and one of the effects is the file position update.

This unprotected file position behavior is not new behavior, and nobody
has ever cared.  Until now.  Yongzhi Pan reported unexpected behavior to
Michael Kerrisk that was due to this.

This resolves the issue with a f_pos-specific lock that is taken by
read/write/lseek on file descriptors that may be shared across threads
or processes.

Reported-by: Yongzhi Pan <panyongzhi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
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9p Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
adfs adfs: delayed freeing of sbi 2013-10-24 23:43:27 -04:00
affs affs: use ->kill_sb() to simplify ->put_super() and failure exits of ->mount() 2014-01-25 03:13:01 -05:00
afs afs: proc cells and rootcell are writeable 2014-02-01 10:59:39 -08:00
autofs4 autofs: fix symlinks aren't checked for expiry 2014-01-23 16:36:59 -08:00
befs befs: iget_locked() doesn't return an ERR_PTR 2014-01-25 03:14:38 -05:00
bfs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
btrfs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs 2014-02-16 11:05:27 -08:00
cachefiles Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
ceph ceph: fix __dcache_readdir() 2014-02-17 12:37:13 -08:00
cifs Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6 2014-02-17 13:50:11 -08:00
coda coda_revalidate_inode(): switch to passing inode... 2013-11-09 00:16:21 -05:00
configfs configfs: fix race between dentry put and lookup 2013-11-21 16:42:27 -08:00
cramfs cramfs: take headers to fs/cramfs 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
debugfs debugfs: use list_next_entry() in debugfs_remove_recursive() 2013-11-13 12:09:24 +09:00
devpts devpts: plug the memory leak in kill_sb 2013-11-13 12:09:36 +09:00
dlm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2014-01-25 11:17:34 -08:00
ecryptfs ecryptfs: fix failure handling in ->readlink() 2014-01-25 03:13:00 -05:00
efivarfs consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances 2013-11-15 22:04:17 -05:00
efs efs: get rid of ->put_super() 2014-01-25 03:13:02 -05:00
exofs exofs: Print less in r4w 2014-01-23 18:54:14 +02:00
exportfs exportfs: fix quadratic behavior in filehandle lookup 2013-11-09 00:16:38 -05:00
ext2 ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure 2014-01-25 23:58:19 -05:00
ext3 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
ext4 ext4: don't leave i_crtime.tv_sec uninitialized 2014-02-16 19:29:32 -05:00
f2fs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
fat fat: rcu-delay unloading nls and freeing sbi 2013-10-24 23:43:28 -04:00
freevxfs
fscache FS-Cache: Handle removal of unadded object to the fscache_object_list rb tree 2014-02-17 13:47:35 -08:00
fuse Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
gfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
hfs fs/hfs/btree.h: remove duplicate defines 2013-11-13 12:09:32 +09:00
hfsplus Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-02-01 10:43:45 -08:00
hostfs um: hostfs: make functions static 2014-01-26 11:51:09 +01:00
hpfs hpfs: optimize quad buffer loading 2014-02-02 16:24:07 -08:00
hppfs
hugetlbfs cope with potentially long ->d_dname() output for shmem/hugetlb 2013-08-24 12:10:17 -04:00
isofs isofs: don't pass dentry to isofs_hash{i,}_common() 2013-10-24 23:34:59 -04:00
jbd jbd: Revise KERN_EMERG error messages 2013-12-04 12:27:46 +01:00
jbd2 jbd2: fix use after free in jbd2_journal_start_reserved() 2014-02-17 20:33:01 -05:00
jffs2 MTD updates for 3.14: 2014-01-28 18:56:37 -08:00
jfs jfs: set i_ctime when setting ACL 2014-02-13 15:56:05 -06:00
kernfs sysfs: fix namespace refcnt leak 2014-02-25 07:37:52 -08:00
lockd lockd: send correct lock when granting a delayed lock. 2014-02-13 14:55:02 -05:00
logfs Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
minix fs/minix: Drop dependency on H8300 2013-09-16 18:20:25 -07:00
ncpfs ncpfs: rcu-delay unload_nls() and freeing ncp_server 2013-10-24 23:43:28 -04:00
nfs Merge branch 'for-3.14-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup 2014-02-20 12:01:09 -08:00
nfs_common
nfsd nfsd4: fix acl buffer overrun 2014-02-11 13:48:11 -05:00
nilfs2 Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-01-30 11:19:05 -08:00
nls nls: have register_nls() set ->owner 2014-01-25 03:14:05 -05:00
notify fsnotify: Allocate overflow events with proper type 2014-02-25 11:18:06 +01:00
ntfs fix O_SYNC|O_APPEND syncing the wrong range on write() 2014-02-09 15:18:09 -05:00
ocfs2 ocfs2 syncs the wrong range... 2014-03-10 11:43:32 -04:00
omfs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
openpromfs
proc vmcore: prevent PT_NOTE p_memsz overflow during header update 2014-02-10 16:01:40 -08:00
pstore pstore: Don't allow high traffic options on fragile devices 2013-12-20 13:12:01 -08:00
qnx4 qnx4: clean qnx4_fill_super() up 2014-01-25 03:13:03 -05:00
qnx6
quota quota: Fix race between dqput() and dquot_scan_active() 2014-02-20 21:57:04 +01:00
ramfs fs/ramfs: move ramfs_aops to inode.c 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
reiserfs reiserfs: fix utterly brain-damaged indentation. 2014-02-17 13:46:33 -08:00
romfs romfs: fix returm err while getting inode in fill_super 2014-01-23 16:37:04 -08:00
squashfs Squashfs: fix failure to unlock pages on decompress error 2013-11-24 01:02:50 +00:00
sysfs sysfs: fix namespace refcnt leak 2014-02-25 07:37:52 -08:00
sysv sysv: Add forgotten superblock lock init for v7 fs 2013-09-29 22:02:02 -04:00
ubifs fs/ubifs: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding 2014-01-23 16:37:03 -08:00
udf udf: Fix data corruption on file type conversion 2014-02-20 21:56:00 +01:00
ufs truncate: drop 'oldsize' truncate_pagecache() parameter 2013-09-12 15:38:02 -07:00
xfs Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2014-02-27 10:37:22 -08:00
Kconfig fs: remove generic_acl 2014-01-26 08:26:40 -05:00
Kconfig.binfmt
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
aio.c Merge git://git.kvack.org/~bcrl/aio-next 2013-12-22 11:03:49 -08:00
anon_inodes.c ... and kill anon_inode_getfile_private() 2013-11-09 00:16:28 -05:00
attr.c fs: fix iversion handling 2013-12-05 16:36:21 -06:00
bad_inode.c
binfmt_aout.c dump_skip(): dump_seek() replacement taking coredump_params 2013-11-09 00:16:26 -05:00
binfmt_elf.c fs: binfmt_elf: remove unused defines INTERPRETER_NONE and INTERPRETER_ELF 2014-01-23 16:36:58 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c elf{,_fdpic} coredump: get rid of pointless if (siginfo->si_signo) 2013-11-09 00:16:30 -05:00
binfmt_em86.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c
binfmt_script.c
binfmt_som.c
bio-integrity.c fs: Mark function as static in fs/bio-integrity.c 2014-02-09 13:56:23 -07:00
bio.c block: Fix cloning of discard/write same bios 2014-02-11 08:40:45 -07:00
block_dev.c a trivial writeback fix 2013-09-13 23:06:40 -04:00
buffer.c mm: __set_page_dirty uses spin_lock_irqsave instead of spin_lock_irq 2014-02-06 13:48:51 -08:00
char_dev.c Merge branch 'for-3.13/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2013-11-14 12:08:14 +09:00
compat.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c
compat_ioctl.c fs/compat_ioctl.c: fix an underflow issue (harmless) 2014-01-21 16:19:42 -08:00
coredump.c coredump: make __get_dumpable/get_dumpable inline, kill fs/coredump.h 2014-01-23 16:37:01 -08:00
dcache.c __dentry_path() fixes 2014-01-26 12:37:55 -05:00
dcookies.c fs/compat: fix lookup_dcookie() parameter handling 2014-01-29 16:22:40 -08:00
direct-io.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
drop_caches.c shrinker: add node awareness 2013-09-10 18:56:31 -04:00
eventfd.c eventfd_ctx_fdget(): use fdget() instead of fget() 2014-01-25 03:13:04 -05:00
eventpoll.c epoll: do not take the nested ep->mtx on EPOLL_CTL_DEL 2014-01-02 14:40:30 -08:00
exec.c execve: use 'struct filename *' for executable name passing 2014-02-05 12:54:53 -08:00
fcntl.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
fhandle.c
file.c fs/file.c:fdtable: avoid triggering OOMs from alloc_fdmem 2014-02-10 16:01:41 -08:00
file_table.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
filesystems.c
fs-writeback.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
fs_struct.c seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures 2013-11-06 12:40:26 +01:00
inode.c locks: break delegations on any attribute modification 2013-11-09 00:16:44 -05:00
internal.h get rid of s_files and files_lock 2013-11-09 00:16:20 -05:00
ioctl.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
ioprio.c
libfs.c consolidate simple ->d_delete() instances 2013-11-15 22:04:17 -05:00
locks.c locks: missing unlock on error in generic_add_lease() 2013-11-13 07:30:53 -05:00
mbcache.c fs: convert fs shrinkers to new scan/count API 2013-09-10 18:56:31 -04:00
mount.h vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error. 2014-01-26 08:26:42 -05:00
mpage.c block: Abstract out bvec iterator 2013-11-23 22:33:47 -08:00
namei.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
namespace.c Driver core / sysfs patches for 3.14-rc1 2014-01-20 15:49:44 -08:00
no-block.c
open.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
pipe.c fs/pipe.c: skip file_update_time on frozen fs 2014-01-23 16:37:00 -08:00
pnode.c split __lookup_mnt() in two functions 2013-10-24 23:35:00 -04:00
pnode.h vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc/<pid>/ns/mnt between namespaces 2013-08-26 18:42:15 -07:00
posix_acl.c fs: get_acl() must be allowed to return EOPNOTSUPP 2014-02-03 17:12:37 -05:00
proc_namespace.c fs/proc_namespace.c: simplify testing nsp and nsp->mnt_ns 2014-01-23 16:37:02 -08:00
read_write.c vfs: atomic f_pos accesses as per POSIX 2014-03-10 11:44:41 -04:00
readdir.c file->f_op is never NULL... 2013-10-24 23:34:54 -04:00
select.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-11-13 15:34:18 +09:00
seq_file.c seq_file: always clear m->count when we free m->buf 2013-11-18 19:07:53 -08:00
signalfd.c
splice.c fuse: fix pipe_buf_operations 2014-01-22 19:36:57 +01:00
stack.c
stat.c vfs: split out vfs_getattr_nosec 2013-11-09 00:16:31 -05:00
statfs.c vfs: allow O_PATH file descriptors for fstatfs() 2013-10-12 13:12:31 -07:00
super.c fs/super.c: sync ro remount after blocking writers 2014-01-31 14:29:36 -05:00
sync.c Revert "writeback: do not sync data dirtied after sync start" 2014-02-22 02:02:28 +01:00
timerfd.c
utimes.c locks: break delegations on any attribute modification 2013-11-09 00:16:44 -05:00
xattr.c