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libaokun@huaweicloud.com <libaokun@huaweicloud.com> says:
This is the third version of this patch series, in which another patch set
is subsumed into this one to avoid confusing the two patch sets.
(https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-fsdevel/list/?series=854914)
We've been testing ondemand mode for cachefiles since January, and we're
almost done. We hit a lot of issues during the testing period, and this
patch series fixes some of the issues. The patches have passed internal
testing without regression.
The following is a brief overview of the patches, see the patches for
more details.
Patch 1-2: Add fscache_try_get_volume() helper function to avoid
fscache_volume use-after-free on cache withdrawal.
Patch 3: Fix cachefiles_lookup_cookie() and cachefiles_withdraw_cache()
concurrency causing cachefiles_volume use-after-free.
Patch 4: Propagate error codes returned by vfs_getxattr() to avoid
endless loops.
Patch 5-7: A read request waiting for reopen could be closed maliciously
before the reopen worker is executing or waiting to be scheduled. So
ondemand_object_worker() may be called after the info and object and even
the cache have been freed and trigger use-after-free. So use
cancel_work_sync() in cachefiles_ondemand_clean_object() to cancel the
reopen worker or wait for it to finish. Since it makes no sense to wait
for the daemon to complete the reopen request, to avoid this pointless
operation blocking cancel_work_sync(), Patch 1 avoids request generation
by the DROPPING state when the request has not been sent, and Patch 2
flushes the requests of the current object before cancel_work_sync().
Patch 8: Cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid msg_id reuse misleading
the daemon to cause hung.
Patch 9: Hold xas_lock during polling to avoid dereferencing reqs causing
use-after-free. This issue was triggered frequently in our tests, and we
found that anolis 5.10 had fixed it. So to avoid failing the test, this
patch is pushed upstream as well.
Baokun Li (7):
netfs, fscache: export fscache_put_volume() and add
fscache_try_get_volume()
cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in fscache_withdraw_volume()
cachefiles: fix slab-use-after-free in cachefiles_withdraw_cookie()
cachefiles: propagate errors from vfs_getxattr() to avoid infinite
loop
cachefiles: stop sending new request when dropping object
cachefiles: cancel all requests for the object that is being dropped
cachefiles: cyclic allocation of msg_id to avoid reuse
Hou Tao (1):
cachefiles: wait for ondemand_object_worker to finish when dropping
object
Jingbo Xu (1):
cachefiles: add missing lock protection when polling
fs/cachefiles/cache.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
fs/cachefiles/daemon.c | 4 +--
fs/cachefiles/internal.h | 3 ++
fs/cachefiles/ondemand.c | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
fs/cachefiles/volume.c | 1 -
fs/cachefiles/xattr.c | 5 +++-
fs/netfs/fscache_volume.c | 14 +++++++++
fs/netfs/internal.h | 2 --
include/linux/fscache-cache.h | 6 ++++
include/trace/events/fscache.h | 4 +++
10 files changed, 123 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-1-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Add missing lock protection in poll routine when iterating xarray,
otherwise:
Even with RCU read lock held, only the slot of the radix tree is
ensured to be pinned there, while the data structure (e.g. struct
cachefiles_req) stored in the slot has no such guarantee. The poll
routine will iterate the radix tree and dereference cachefiles_req
accordingly. Thus RCU read lock is not adequate in this case and
spinlock is needed here.
Fixes: b817e22b2e91 ("cachefiles: narrow the scope of triggering EPOLLIN events in ondemand mode")
Signed-off-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628062930.2467993-10-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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In ondemand mode, when the daemon is processing an open request, if the
kernel flags the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, the cachefiles_daemon_write()
will always return -EIO, so the daemon can't pass the copen to the kernel.
Then the kernel process that is waiting for the copen triggers a hung_task.
Since the DEAD state is irreversible, it can only be exited by closing
/dev/cachefiles. Therefore, after calling cachefiles_io_error() to mark
the cache as CACHEFILES_DEAD, if in ondemand mode, flush all requests to
avoid the above hungtask. We may still be able to read some of the cached
data before closing the fd of /dev/cachefiles.
Note that this relies on the patch that adds reference counting to the req,
otherwise it may UAF.
Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-12-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Even with CACHEFILES_DEAD set, we can still read the requests, so in the
following concurrency the request may be used after it has been freed:
mount | daemon_thread1 | daemon_thread2
------------------------------------------------------------
cachefiles_ondemand_init_object
cachefiles_ondemand_send_req
REQ_A = kzalloc(sizeof(*req) + data_len)
wait_for_completion(&REQ_A->done)
cachefiles_daemon_read
cachefiles_ondemand_daemon_read
// close dev fd
cachefiles_flush_reqs
complete(&REQ_A->done)
kfree(REQ_A)
xa_lock(&cache->reqs);
cachefiles_ondemand_select_req
req->msg.opcode != CACHEFILES_OP_READ
// req use-after-free !!!
xa_unlock(&cache->reqs);
xa_destroy(&cache->reqs)
Hence remove requests from cache->reqs when flushing them to avoid
accessing freed requests.
Fixes: c8383054506c ("cachefiles: notify the user daemon when looking up cookie")
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240522114308.2402121-3-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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The following memory leak was reported after unbinding /dev/cachefiles:
==================================================================
unreferenced object 0xffff9b674176e3c0 (size 192):
comm "cachefilesd2", pid 680, jiffies 4294881224
hex dump (first 32 bytes):
01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................
backtrace (crc ea38a44b):
[<ffffffff8eb8a1a5>] kmem_cache_alloc+0x2d5/0x370
[<ffffffff8e917f86>] prepare_creds+0x26/0x2e0
[<ffffffffc002eeef>] cachefiles_determine_cache_security+0x1f/0x120
[<ffffffffc00243ec>] cachefiles_add_cache+0x13c/0x3a0
[<ffffffffc0025216>] cachefiles_daemon_write+0x146/0x1c0
[<ffffffff8ebc4a3b>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x520
[<ffffffff8ebc5069>] ksys_write+0x69/0xf0
[<ffffffff8f6d4662>] do_syscall_64+0x72/0x140
[<ffffffff8f8000aa>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x6e/0x76
==================================================================
Put the reference count of cache_cred in cachefiles_daemon_unbind() to
fix the problem. And also put cache_cred in cachefiles_add_cache() error
branch to avoid memory leaks.
Fixes: 9ae326a69004 ("CacheFiles: A cache that backs onto a mounted filesystem")
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240217081431.796809-1-libaokun1@huawei.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Previously, in ondemand read scenario, if the anonymous fd was closed by
user daemon, inflight and subsequent read requests would return EIO.
As long as the device connection is not released, user daemon can hold
and restore inflight requests by setting the request flag to
CACHEFILES_REQ_NEW.
Suggested-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Yin <yinxin.x@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120041422.75170-6-zhujia.zj@bytedance.com
Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Don't trigger EPOLLIN when there are only reopening read requests in
xarray.
Suggested-by: Xin Yin <yinxin.x@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Jia Zhu <zhujia.zj@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231120041422.75170-5-zhujia.zj@bytedance.com
Reviewed-by: Jingbo Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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Enable on-demand read mode by adding an optional parameter to the "bind"
command.
On-demand mode will be turned on when this parameter is "ondemand", i.e.
"bind ondemand". Otherwise cachefiles will work in the original mode.
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509074028.74954-7-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
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Add a refcount to avoid the deadlock in on-demand read mode. The
on-demand read mode will pin the corresponding cachefiles object for
each anonymous fd. The cachefiles object is unpinned when the anonymous
fd gets closed. When the user daemon exits and the fd of
"/dev/cachefiles" device node gets closed, it will wait for all
cahcefiles objects getting withdrawn. Then if there's any anonymous fd
getting closed after the fd of the device node, the user daemon will
hang forever, waiting for all objects getting withdrawn.
To fix this, add a refcount indicating if there's any object pinned by
anonymous fds. The cachefiles cache gets unbound and withdrawn when the
refcount is decreased to 0. It won't change the behaviour of the
original mode, in which case the cachefiles cache gets unbound and
withdrawn as long as the fd of the device node gets closed.
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509074028.74954-4-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
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Fscache/CacheFiles used to serve as a local cache for a remote
networking fs. A new on-demand read mode will be introduced for
CacheFiles, which can boost the scenario where on-demand read semantics
are needed, e.g. container image distribution.
The essential difference between these two modes is seen when a cache
miss occurs: In the original mode, the netfs will fetch the data from
the remote server and then write it to the cache file; in on-demand
read mode, fetching the data and writing it into the cache is delegated
to a user daemon.
As the first step, notify the user daemon when looking up cookie. In
this case, an anonymous fd is sent to the user daemon, through which the
user daemon can write the fetched data to the cache file. Since the user
daemon may move the anonymous fd around, e.g. through dup(), an object
ID uniquely identifying the cache file is also attached.
Also add one advisory flag (FSCACHE_ADV_WANT_CACHE_SIZE) suggesting that
the cache file size shall be retrieved at runtime. This helps the
scenario where one cache file contains multiple netfs files, e.g. for
the purpose of deduplication. In this case, netfs itself has no idea the
size of the cache file, whilst the user daemon should give the hint on
it.
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220509074028.74954-3-jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Gao Xiang <hsiangkao@linux.alibaba.com>
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fscache_acquire_cache() requires a non-empty name, while 'tag <name>'
command is optional for cachefilesd.
Thus set default tag name if it's unspecified to avoid the regression of
cachefilesd. The logic is the same with that before rewritten.
Signed-off-by: Jeffle Xu <jefflexu@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164251399914.3435901.4761991152407411408.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
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Add stat counters of no-space events that caused caching not to happen and
display in /proc/fs/fscache/stats.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819653216.215744.17210522251617386509.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906958369.143852.7257100711818401748.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967166917.1823006.14842444049198947892.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021566184.640689.4417328329632709265.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Remove the block that allowed cachefiles to be compiled but prevented it
from actually starting a cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819649497.215744.2872504990762846767.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906956491.143852.4951522864793559189.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967165374.1823006.14248189932202373809.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021564379.640689.7921380491176827442.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Implement the wrangling of backing files, including the following pieces:
(1) Lookup and creation of a file on disk, using a tmpfile if the file
isn't yet present. The file is then opened, sized for DIO and the
file handle is attached to the cachefiles_object struct. The inode is
marked to indicate that it's in use by a kernel service.
(2) Invalidation of an object, creating a tmpfile and switching the file
pointer in the cachefiles object.
(3) Committing a file to disk, including setting the coherency xattr on it
and, if necessary, creating a hard link to it.
Note that this would be a good place to use Omar Sandoval's vfs_link()
with AT_LINK_REPLACE[1] as I may have to unlink an old file before I
can link a tmpfile into place.
(4) Withdrawal of open objects when a cache is being withdrawn or a cookie
is relinquished. This involves committing or discarding the file.
Changes
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ver #2:
- Fix logging of wrong error[1].
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203094950.GA2480@kili/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819644097.215744.4505389616742411239.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906949512.143852.14222856795032602080.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967158526.1823006.17482695321424642675.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021557060.640689.16373541458119269871.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Implement the ability for the userspace daemon to try and cull a file or
directory in the cache. Two daemon commands are implemented:
(1) The "inuse" command. This queries if a file is in use or whether it
can be deleted. It checks the S_KERNEL_FILE flag on the inode
referred to by the specified filename.
(2) The "cull" command. This asks for a file or directory to be removed,
where removal means either unlinking it or moving it to the graveyard
directory for userspace to dismantle.
Changes
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ver #2:
- Fix logging of wrong error[1].
- Need to unmark an inode we've moved to the graveyard before unlocking.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211203094950.GA2480@kili/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819643179.215744.13641580295708315695.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906945705.143852.8177595531814485350.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967155792.1823006.1088936326902550910.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021555037.640689.9472627499842585255.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Implement support for creating the directory layout for a volume on disk
and setting up and withdrawing volume caching.
Each volume has a directory named for the volume key under the root of the
cache (prefixed with an 'I' to indicate to cachefilesd that it's an index)
and then creates a bunch of hash bucket subdirectories under that (named as
'@' plus a hex number) in which cookie files will be created.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819635314.215744.13081522301564537723.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906936397.143852.17788457778396467161.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967143860.1823006.7185205806080225038.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021545212.640689.5064821392307582927.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Do the following:
(1) Fill out cachefiles_daemon_add_cache() so that it sets up the cache
directories and registers the cache with cachefiles.
(2) Add a function to do the top-level part of cache withdrawal and
unregistration.
(3) Add a function to sync a cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819633175.215744.10857127598041268340.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906935445.143852.15545194974036410029.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967142904.1823006.244055483596047072.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021543872.640689.14370017789605073222.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Provide a function to check how much space there is. This also flips the
state on the cache and will signal the daemon to inform it of the change
and to ask it to do some culling if necessary.
We will also need to subtract the amount of data currently being written to
the cache (cache->b_writing) from the amount of available space to avoid
hitting ENOSPC accidentally.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819629322.215744.13457425294680841213.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906930100.143852.1681026700865762069.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967140058.1823006.7781243664702837128.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021539957.640689.12477177372616805706.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Register a misc device with which to talk to the daemon. The misc device
holds a cache set up through it around and closing the device kills the
cache.
cachefilesd communicates with the kernel by passing it single-line text
commands. Parse these and use them to parameterise the cache state. This
does not implement the command to actually bring a cache online. That's
left for later.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819628388.215744.17712097043607299608.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906929128.143852.14065207858943654011.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967139085.1823006.3514846391807454287.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021538400.640689.9172006906288062041.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Delete the code from the cachefiles driver to make it easier to rewrite and
resubmit in a logical manner.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cachefs@redhat.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163819577641.215744.12718114397770666596.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v1
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163906883770.143852.4149714614981373410.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/163967076066.1823006.7175712134577687753.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v3
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/164021483619.640689.7586546280515844702.stgit@warthog.procyon.org.uk/ # v4
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Based on 1 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public licence as published by
the free software foundation either version 2 of the licence or at
your option any later version
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-or-later
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 114 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520170857.552531963@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is the mindless scripted replacement of kernel use of POLL*
variables as described by Al, done by this script:
for V in IN OUT PRI ERR RDNORM RDBAND WRNORM WRBAND HUP RDHUP NVAL MSG; do
L=`git grep -l -w POLL$V | grep -v '^t' | grep -v /um/ | grep -v '^sa' | grep -v '/poll.h$'|grep -v '^D'`
for f in $L; do sed -i "-es/^\([^\"]*\)\(\<POLL$V\>\)/\\1E\\2/" $f; done
done
with de-mangling cleanups yet to come.
NOTE! On almost all architectures, the EPOLL* constants have the same
values as the POLL* constants do. But they keyword here is "almost".
For various bad reasons they aren't the same, and epoll() doesn't
actually work quite correctly in some cases due to this on Sparc et al.
The next patch from Al will sort out the final differences, and we
should be all done.
Scripted-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Provide read-and-reset objects- and blocks-released counters for cachefilesd
to use to work out whether there's anything new that can be culled.
One of the problems cachefilesd has is that if all the objects in the cache
are pinned by inodes lying dormant in the kernel inode cache, there isn't
anything for it to cull. In such a case, it just spins around walking the
filesystem tree and scanning for something to cull. This eats up a lot of
CPU time.
By telling cachefilesd if there have been any releases, the daemon can
sleep until there is the possibility of something to do.
cachefilesd finds this information by the following means:
(1) When the control fd is read, the kernel presents a list of values of
interest. "freleased=N" and "breleased=N" are added to this list to
indicate the number of files released and number of blocks released
since the last read call. At this point the counters are reset.
(2) POLLIN is signalled if the number of files released becomes greater
than 0.
Note that by 'released' it just means that the kernel has released its
interest in those files for the moment, not necessarily that the files
should be deleted from the cache.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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A _lot_ of ->write() instances were open-coding it; some are
converted to memdup_user_nul(), a lot more remain...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Fix up the following scripted S_ISDIR/S_ISREG/S_ISLNK conversions (or lack
thereof) in cachefiles:
(1) Cachefiles mostly wants to use d_can_lookup() rather than d_is_dir() as
it doesn't want to deal with automounts in its cache.
(2) Coccinelle didn't find S_IS* expressions in ASSERT() statements in
cachefiles.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Convert the following where appropriate:
(1) S_ISLNK(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_symlink(dentry).
(2) S_ISREG(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_reg(dentry).
(3) S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode) to d_is_dir(dentry). This is actually more
complicated than it appears as some calls should be converted to
d_can_lookup() instead. The difference is whether the directory in
question is a real dir with a ->lookup op or whether it's a fake dir with
a ->d_automount op.
In some circumstances, we can subsume checks for dentry->d_inode not being
NULL into this, provided we the code isn't in a filesystem that expects
d_inode to be NULL if the dirent really *is* negative (ie. if we're going to
use d_inode() rather than d_backing_inode() to get the inode pointer).
Note that the dentry type field may be set to something other than
DCACHE_MISS_TYPE when d_inode is NULL in the case of unionmount, where the VFS
manages the fall-through from a negative dentry to a lower layer. In such a
case, the dentry type of the negative union dentry is set to the same as the
type of the lower dentry.
However, if you know d_inode is not NULL at the call site, then you can use
the d_is_xxx() functions even in a filesystem.
There is one further complication: a 0,0 chardev dentry may be labelled
DCACHE_WHITEOUT_TYPE rather than DCACHE_SPECIAL_TYPE. Strictly, this was
intended for special directory entry types that don't have attached inodes.
The following perl+coccinelle script was used:
use strict;
my @callers;
open($fd, 'git grep -l \'S_IS[A-Z].*->d_inode\' |') ||
die "Can't grep for S_ISDIR and co. callers";
@callers = <$fd>;
close($fd);
unless (@callers) {
print "No matches\n";
exit(0);
}
my @cocci = (
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISLNK(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_symlink(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISDIR(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_dir(E)',
'',
'@@',
'expression E;',
'@@',
'',
'- S_ISREG(E->d_inode->i_mode)',
'+ d_is_reg(E)' );
my $coccifile = "tmp.sp.cocci";
open($fd, ">$coccifile") || die $coccifile;
print($fd "$_\n") || die $coccifile foreach (@cocci);
close($fd);
foreach my $file (@callers) {
chomp $file;
print "Processing ", $file, "\n";
system("spatch", "--sp-file", $coccifile, $file, "--in-place", "--no-show-diff") == 0 ||
die "spatch failed";
}
[AV: overlayfs parts skipped]
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Commit 0227d6abb378 ("fs/cachefiles: replace kerror by pr_err") didn't
include newline featuring in original kerror definition
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.16.x]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Also add pr_fmt in internal.h
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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(...)
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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
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func(..., off, ...)
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)
...+>
}
@ 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
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)
...+>
}
@ 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>
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Add three helpers that retrieve a refcounted copy of the root and cwd
from the supplied fs_struct.
get_fs_root()
get_fs_pwd()
get_fs_root_and_pwd()
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Dentry references should not be acquired without a corresponding
vfsmount ref.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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We'll need the path to implement the flags field for statvfs support.
We do have it available in all callers except:
- ecryptfs_statfs. This one doesn't actually need vfs_statfs but just
needs to do a caller to the lower filesystem statfs method.
- sys_ustat. Add a non-exported statfs_by_dentry helper for it which
doesn't won't be able to fill out the flags field later on.
In addition rename the helpers for statfs vs fstatfs to do_*statfs instead
of the misleading vfs prefix.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Makes use of skip_spaces() defined in lib/string.c for removing leading
spaces from strings all over the tree.
It decreases lib.a code size by 47 bytes and reuses the function tree-wide:
text data bss dec hex filename
64688 584 592 65864 10148 (TOTALS-BEFORE)
64641 584 592 65817 10119 (TOTALS-AFTER)
Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
"a char equals zero is never a space".
Julia Lawall tried the semantic patch (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr) below,
and found occurrences of this pattern on 3 more files:
drivers/leds/led-class.c
drivers/leds/ledtrig-timer.c
drivers/video/output.c
@@
expression str;
@@
( // ignore skip_spaces cases
while (*str && isspace(*str)) { \(str++;\|++str;\) }
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- *str &&
isspace(*str)
)
Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add an FS-Cache cache-backend that permits a mounted filesystem to be used as a
backing store for the cache.
CacheFiles uses a userspace daemon to do some of the cache management - such as
reaping stale nodes and culling. This is called cachefilesd and lives in
/sbin. The source for the daemon can be downloaded from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.c
And an example configuration from:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/cachefs/cachefilesd.conf
The filesystem and data integrity of the cache are only as good as those of the
filesystem providing the backing services. Note that CacheFiles does not
attempt to journal anything since the journalling interfaces of the various
filesystems are very specific in nature.
CacheFiles creates a misc character device - "/dev/cachefiles" - that is used
to communication with the daemon. Only one thing may have this open at once,
and whilst it is open, a cache is at least partially in existence. The daemon
opens this and sends commands down it to control the cache.
CacheFiles is currently limited to a single cache.
CacheFiles attempts to maintain at least a certain percentage of free space on
the filesystem, shrinking the cache by culling the objects it contains to make
space if necessary - see the "Cache Culling" section. This means it can be
placed on the same medium as a live set of data, and will expand to make use of
spare space and automatically contract when the set of data requires more
space.
============
REQUIREMENTS
============
The use of CacheFiles and its daemon requires the following features to be
available in the system and in the cache filesystem:
- dnotify.
- extended attributes (xattrs).
- openat() and friends.
- bmap() support on files in the filesystem (FIBMAP ioctl).
- The use of bmap() to detect a partial page at the end of the file.
It is strongly recommended that the "dir_index" option is enabled on Ext3
filesystems being used as a cache.
=============
CONFIGURATION
=============
The cache is configured by a script in /etc/cachefilesd.conf. These commands
set up cache ready for use. The following script commands are available:
(*) brun <N>%
(*) bcull <N>%
(*) bstop <N>%
(*) frun <N>%
(*) fcull <N>%
(*) fstop <N>%
Configure the culling limits. Optional. See the section on culling
The defaults are 7% (run), 5% (cull) and 1% (stop) respectively.
The commands beginning with a 'b' are file space (block) limits, those
beginning with an 'f' are file count limits.
(*) dir <path>
Specify the directory containing the root of the cache. Mandatory.
(*) tag <name>
Specify a tag to FS-Cache to use in distinguishing multiple caches.
Optional. The default is "CacheFiles".
(*) debug <mask>
Specify a numeric bitmask to control debugging in the kernel module.
Optional. The default is zero (all off). The following values can be
OR'd into the mask to collect various information:
1 Turn on trace of function entry (_enter() macros)
2 Turn on trace of function exit (_leave() macros)
4 Turn on trace of internal debug points (_debug())
This mask can also be set through sysfs, eg:
echo 5 >/sys/modules/cachefiles/parameters/debug
==================
STARTING THE CACHE
==================
The cache is started by running the daemon. The daemon opens the cache device,
configures the cache and tells it to begin caching. At that point the cache
binds to fscache and the cache becomes live.
The daemon is run as follows:
/sbin/cachefilesd [-d]* [-s] [-n] [-f <configfile>]
The flags are:
(*) -d
Increase the debugging level. This can be specified multiple times and
is cumulative with itself.
(*) -s
Send messages to stderr instead of syslog.
(*) -n
Don't daemonise and go into background.
(*) -f <configfile>
Use an alternative configuration file rather than the default one.
===============
THINGS TO AVOID
===============
Do not mount other things within the cache as this will cause problems. The
kernel module contains its own very cut-down path walking facility that ignores
mountpoints, but the daemon can't avoid them.
Do not create, rename or unlink files and directories in the cache whilst the
cache is active, as this may cause the state to become uncertain.
Renaming files in the cache might make objects appear to be other objects (the
filename is part of the lookup key).
Do not change or remove the extended attributes attached to cache files by the
cache as this will cause the cache state management to get confused.
Do not create files or directories in the cache, lest the cache get confused or
serve incorrect data.
Do not chmod files in the cache. The module creates things with minimal
permissions to prevent random users being able to access them directly.
=============
CACHE CULLING
=============
The cache may need culling occasionally to make space. This involves
discarding objects from the cache that have been used less recently than
anything else. Culling is based on the access time of data objects. Empty
directories are culled if not in use.
Cache culling is done on the basis of the percentage of blocks and the
percentage of files available in the underlying filesystem. There are six
"limits":
(*) brun
(*) frun
If the amount of free space and the number of available files in the cache
rises above both these limits, then culling is turned off.
(*) bcull
(*) fcull
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then culling is started.
(*) bstop
(*) fstop
If the amount of available space or the number of available files in the
cache falls below either of these limits, then no further allocation of
disk space or files is permitted until culling has raised things above
these limits again.
These must be configured thusly:
0 <= bstop < bcull < brun < 100
0 <= fstop < fcull < frun < 100
Note that these are percentages of available space and available files, and do
_not_ appear as 100 minus the percentage displayed by the "df" program.
The userspace daemon scans the cache to build up a table of cullable objects.
These are then culled in least recently used order. A new scan of the cache is
started as soon as space is made in the table. Objects will be skipped if
their atimes have changed or if the kernel module says it is still using them.
===============
CACHE STRUCTURE
===============
The CacheFiles module will create two directories in the directory it was
given:
(*) cache/
(*) graveyard/
The active cache objects all reside in the first directory. The CacheFiles
kernel module moves any retired or culled objects that it can't simply unlink
to the graveyard from which the daemon will actually delete them.
The daemon uses dnotify to monitor the graveyard directory, and will delete
anything that appears therein.
The module represents index objects as directories with the filename "I..." or
"J...". Note that the "cache/" directory is itself a special index.
Data objects are represented as files if they have no children, or directories
if they do. Their filenames all begin "D..." or "E...". If represented as a
directory, data objects will have a file in the directory called "data" that
actually holds the data.
Special objects are similar to data objects, except their filenames begin
"S..." or "T...".
If an object has children, then it will be represented as a directory.
Immediately in the representative directory are a collection of directories
named for hash values of the child object keys with an '@' prepended. Into
this directory, if possible, will be placed the representations of the child
objects:
INDEX INDEX INDEX DATA FILES
========= ========== ================================= ================
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...DB1ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...N22ry
cache/@4a/I03nfs/@30/Ji000000000000000--fHg8hi8400/@75/Es0g000w...FP1ry
If the key is so long that it exceeds NAME_MAX with the decorations added on to
it, then it will be cut into pieces, the first few of which will be used to
make a nest of directories, and the last one of which will be the objects
inside the last directory. The names of the intermediate directories will have
'+' prepended:
J1223/@23/+xy...z/+kl...m/Epqr
Note that keys are raw data, and not only may they exceed NAME_MAX in size,
they may also contain things like '/' and NUL characters, and so they may not
be suitable for turning directly into a filename.
To handle this, CacheFiles will use a suitably printable filename directly and
"base-64" encode ones that aren't directly suitable. The two versions of
object filenames indicate the encoding:
OBJECT TYPE PRINTABLE ENCODED
=============== =============== ===============
Index "I..." "J..."
Data "D..." "E..."
Special "S..." "T..."
Intermediate directories are always "@" or "+" as appropriate.
Each object in the cache has an extended attribute label that holds the object
type ID (required to distinguish special objects) and the auxiliary data from
the netfs. The latter is used to detect stale objects in the cache and update
or retire them.
Note that CacheFiles will erase from the cache any file it doesn't recognise or
any file of an incorrect type (such as a FIFO file or a device file).
==========================
SECURITY MODEL AND SELINUX
==========================
CacheFiles is implemented to deal properly with the LSM security features of
the Linux kernel and the SELinux facility.
One of the problems that CacheFiles faces is that it is generally acting on
behalf of a process, and running in that process's context, and that includes a
security context that is not appropriate for accessing the cache - either
because the files in the cache are inaccessible to that process, or because if
the process creates a file in the cache, that file may be inaccessible to other
processes.
The way CacheFiles works is to temporarily change the security context (fsuid,
fsgid and actor security label) that the process acts as - without changing the
security context of the process when it the target of an operation performed by
some other process (so signalling and suchlike still work correctly).
When the CacheFiles module is asked to bind to its cache, it:
(1) Finds the security label attached to the root cache directory and uses
that as the security label with which it will create files. By default,
this is:
cachefiles_var_t
(2) Finds the security label of the process which issued the bind request
(presumed to be the cachefilesd daemon), which by default will be:
cachefilesd_t
and asks LSM to supply a security ID as which it should act given the
daemon's label. By default, this will be:
cachefiles_kernel_t
SELinux transitions the daemon's security ID to the module's security ID
based on a rule of this form in the policy.
type_transition <daemon's-ID> kernel_t : process <module's-ID>;
For instance:
type_transition cachefilesd_t kernel_t : process cachefiles_kernel_t;
The module's security ID gives it permission to create, move and remove files
and directories in the cache, to find and access directories and files in the
cache, to set and access extended attributes on cache objects, and to read and
write files in the cache.
The daemon's security ID gives it only a very restricted set of permissions: it
may scan directories, stat files and erase files and directories. It may
not read or write files in the cache, and so it is precluded from accessing the
data cached therein; nor is it permitted to create new files in the cache.
There are policy source files available in:
http://people.redhat.com/~dhowells/fscache/cachefilesd-0.8.tar.bz2
and later versions. In that tarball, see the files:
cachefilesd.te
cachefilesd.fc
cachefilesd.if
They are built and installed directly by the RPM.
If a non-RPM based system is being used, then copy the above files to their own
directory and run:
make -f /usr/share/selinux/devel/Makefile
semodule -i cachefilesd.pp
You will need checkpolicy and selinux-policy-devel installed prior to the
build.
By default, the cache is located in /var/fscache, but if it is desirable that
it should be elsewhere, than either the above policy files must be altered, or
an auxiliary policy must be installed to label the alternate location of the
cache.
For instructions on how to add an auxiliary policy to enable the cache to be
located elsewhere when SELinux is in enforcing mode, please see:
/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd-*/move-cache.txt
When the cachefilesd rpm is installed; alternatively, the document can be found
in the sources.
==================
A NOTE ON SECURITY
==================
CacheFiles makes use of the split security in the task_struct. It allocates
its own task_security structure, and redirects current->act_as to point to it
when it acts on behalf of another process, in that process's context.
The reason it does this is that it calls vfs_mkdir() and suchlike rather than
bypassing security and calling inode ops directly. Therefore the VFS and LSM
may deny the CacheFiles access to the cache data because under some
circumstances the caching code is running in the security context of whatever
process issued the original syscall on the netfs.
Furthermore, should CacheFiles create a file or directory, the security
parameters with that object is created (UID, GID, security label) would be
derived from that process that issued the system call, thus potentially
preventing other processes from accessing the cache - including CacheFiles's
cache management daemon (cachefilesd).
What is required is to temporarily override the security of the process that
issued the system call. We can't, however, just do an in-place change of the
security data as that affects the process as an object, not just as a subject.
This means it may lose signals or ptrace events for example, and affects what
the process looks like in /proc.
So CacheFiles makes use of a logical split in the security between the
objective security (task->sec) and the subjective security (task->act_as). The
objective security holds the intrinsic security properties of a process and is
never overridden. This is what appears in /proc, and is what is used when a
process is the target of an operation by some other process (SIGKILL for
example).
The subjective security holds the active security properties of a process, and
may be overridden. This is not seen externally, and is used whan a process
acts upon another object, for example SIGKILLing another process or opening a
file.
LSM hooks exist that allow SELinux (or Smack or whatever) to reject a request
for CacheFiles to run in a context of a specific security label, or to create
files and directories with another security label.
This documentation is added by the patch to:
Documentation/filesystems/caching/cachefiles.txt
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Steve Dickson <steved@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Tested-by: Daire Byrne <Daire.Byrne@framestore.com>
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