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2018-08-29Merge tag 'for_v4.19-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull misc fs fixes from Jan Kara: - make UDF to properly mount media created by Win7 - make isofs to properly refuse devices with large physical block size - fix a Spectre gadget in quotactl(2) - fix a warning in fsnotify code hit by syzkaller * tag 'for_v4.19-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: udf: Fix mounting of Win7 created UDF filesystems udf: Remove dead code from udf_find_fileset() fs/quota: Fix spectre gadget in do_quotactl fs/quota: Replace XQM_MAXQUOTAS usage with MAXQUOTAS isofs: reject hardware sector size > 2048 bytes fsnotify: fix false positive warning on inode delete
2018-08-21Merge branch 'siginfo-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-1/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull core signal handling updates from Eric Biederman: "It was observed that a periodic timer in combination with a sufficiently expensive fork could prevent fork from every completing. This contains the changes to remove the need for that restart. This set of changes is split into several parts: - The first part makes PIDTYPE_TGID a proper pid type instead something only for very special cases. The part starts using PIDTYPE_TGID enough so that in __send_signal where signals are actually delivered we know if the signal is being sent to a a group of processes or just a single process. - With that prep work out of the way the logic in fork is modified so that fork logically makes signals received while it is running appear to be received after the fork completes" * 'siginfo-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: (22 commits) signal: Don't send signals to tasks that don't exist signal: Don't restart fork when signals come in. fork: Have new threads join on-going signal group stops fork: Skip setting TIF_SIGPENDING in ptrace_init_task signal: Add calculate_sigpending() fork: Unconditionally exit if a fatal signal is pending fork: Move and describe why the code examines PIDNS_ADDING signal: Push pid type down into complete_signal. signal: Push pid type down into __send_signal signal: Push pid type down into send_signal signal: Pass pid type into do_send_sig_info signal: Pass pid type into send_sigio_to_task & send_sigurg_to_task signal: Pass pid type into group_send_sig_info signal: Pass pid and pid type into send_sigqueue posix-timers: Noralize good_sigevent signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sent pid: Implement PIDTYPE_TGID pids: Move the pgrp and session pid pointers from task_struct to signal_struct kvm: Don't open code task_pid in kvm_vcpu_ioctl pids: Compute task_tgid using signal->leader_pid ...
2018-08-20fsnotify: fix false positive warning on inode deleteJan Kara1-3/+3
When inode is getting deleted and someone else holds reference to a mark attached to the inode, we just detach the connector from the inode. In that case fsnotify_put_mark() called from fsnotify_destroy_marks() will decide to recalculate mask for the inode and __fsnotify_recalc_mask() will WARN about invalid connector type: WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 12015 at fs/notify/mark.c:139 __fsnotify_recalc_mask+0x2d7/0x350 fs/notify/mark.c:139 Actually there's no reason to warn about detached connector in __fsnotify_recalc_mask() so just silently skip updating the mask in such case. Reported-by: syzbot+c34692a51b9a6ca93540@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: 3ac70bfcde81 ("fsnotify: add helper to get mask from connector") Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-08-17Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds6-9/+30
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few misc things - a few Y2038 fixes - ntfs fixes - arch/sh tweaks - ocfs2 updates - most of MM * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (111 commits) mm/hmm.c: remove unused variables align_start and align_end fs/userfaultfd.c: remove redundant pointer uwq mm, vmacache: hash addresses based on pmd mm/list_lru: introduce list_lru_shrink_walk_irq() mm/list_lru.c: pass struct list_lru_node* as an argument to __list_lru_walk_one() mm/list_lru.c: move locking from __list_lru_walk_one() to its caller mm/list_lru.c: use list_lru_walk_one() in list_lru_walk_node() mm, swap: make CONFIG_THP_SWAP depend on CONFIG_SWAP mm/sparse: delete old sparse_init and enable new one mm/sparse: add new sparse_init_nid() and sparse_init() mm/sparse: move buffer init/fini to the common place mm/sparse: use the new sparse buffer functions in non-vmemmap mm/sparse: abstract sparse buffer allocations mm/hugetlb.c: don't zero 1GiB bootmem pages mm, page_alloc: double zone's batchsize mm/oom_kill.c: document oom_lock mm/hugetlb: remove gigantic page support for HIGHMEM mm, oom: remove sleep from under oom_lock kernel/dma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from dma_alloc_from_contiguous() mm/cma: remove unsupported gfp_mask parameter from cma_alloc() ...
2018-08-17fs: fsnotify: account fsnotify metadata to kmemcgShakeel Butt6-9/+30
Patch series "Directed kmem charging", v8. The Linux kernel's memory cgroup allows limiting the memory usage of the jobs running on the system to provide isolation between the jobs. All the kernel memory allocated in the context of the job and marked with __GFP_ACCOUNT will also be included in the memory usage and be limited by the job's limit. The kernel memory can only be charged to the memcg of the process in whose context kernel memory was allocated. However there are cases where the allocated kernel memory should be charged to the memcg different from the current processes's memcg. This patch series contains two such concrete use-cases i.e. fsnotify and buffer_head. The fsnotify event objects can consume a lot of system memory for large or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. The events are allocated in the context of the event producer. However they should be charged to the event consumer. Similarly the buffer_head objects can be allocated in a memcg different from the memcg of the page for which buffer_head objects are being allocated. To solve this issue, this patch series introduces mechanism to charge kernel memory to a given memcg. In case of fsnotify events, the memcg of the consumer can be used for charging and for buffer_head, the memcg of the page can be charged. For directed charging, the caller can use the scope API memalloc_[un]use_memcg() to specify the memcg to charge for all the __GFP_ACCOUNT allocations within the scope. This patch (of 2): A lot of memory can be consumed by the events generated for the huge or unlimited queues if there is either no or slow listener. This can cause system level memory pressure or OOMs. So, it's better to account the fsnotify kmem caches to the memcg of the listener. However the listener can be in a different memcg than the memcg of the producer and these allocations happen in the context of the event producer. This patch introduces remote memcg charging API which the producer can use to charge the allocations to the memcg of the listener. There are seven fsnotify kmem caches and among them allocations from dnotify_struct_cache, dnotify_mark_cache, fanotify_mark_cache and inotify_inode_mark_cachep happens in the context of syscall from the listener. So, SLAB_ACCOUNT is enough for these caches. The objects from fsnotify_mark_connector_cachep are not accounted as they are small compared to the notification mark or events and it is unclear whom to account connector to since it is shared by all events attached to the inode. The allocations from the event caches happen in the context of the event producer. For such caches we will need to remote charge the allocations to the listener's memcg. Thus we save the memcg reference in the fsnotify_group structure of the listener. This patch has also moved the members of fsnotify_group to keep the size same, at least for 64 bit build, even with additional member by filling the holes. [shakeelb@google.com: use GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT rather than open-coding it] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180702215439.211597-1-shakeelb@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627191250.209150-2-shakeelb@google.com Signed-off-by: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-07-21signal: Use PIDTYPE_TGID to clearly store where file signals will be sentEric W. Biederman1-1/+2
When f_setown is called a pid and a pid type are stored. Replace the use of PIDTYPE_PID with PIDTYPE_TGID as PIDTYPE_TGID goes to the entire thread group. Replace the use of PIDTYPE_MAX with PIDTYPE_PID as PIDTYPE_PID now is only for a thread. Update the users of __f_setown to use PIDTYPE_TGID instead of PIDTYPE_PID. For now the code continues to capture task_pid (when task_tgid would really be appropriate), and iterate on PIDTYPE_PID (even when type == PIDTYPE_TGID) out of an abundance of caution to preserve existing behavior. Oleg Nesterov suggested using the test to ensure we use PIDTYPE_PID for tgid lookup also be used to avoid taking the tasklist lock. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-07-21pids: Compute task_tgid using signal->leader_pidEric W. Biederman1-0/+1
The cost is the the same and this removes the need to worry about complications that come from de_thread and group_leader changing. __task_pid_nr_ns has been updated to take advantage of this change. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-06-27inotify: Add flag IN_MASK_CREATE for inotify_add_watch()Henry Wilson1-1/+8
The flag IN_MASK_CREATE is introduced as a flag for inotiy_add_watch() which prevents inotify from modifying any existing watches when invoked. If the pathname specified in the call has a watched inode associated with it and IN_MASK_CREATE is specified, fail with an errno of EEXIST. Use of IN_MASK_CREATE with IN_MASK_ADD is reserved for future use and will return EINVAL. RATIONALE In the current implementation, there is no way to prevent inotify_add_watch() from modifying existing watch descriptors. Even if the caller keeps a record of all watch descriptors collected, this is only sufficient to detect that an existing watch descriptor may have been modified. The assumption that a particular path will map to the same inode over multiple calls to inotify_add_watch() cannot be made as files can be renamed or deleted. It is also not possible to assume that two distinct paths do no map to the same inode, due to hard-links or a dereferenced symbolic link. Further uses of inotify_add_watch() to revert the change may cause other watch descriptors to be modified or created, merely compunding the problem. There is currently no system call such as inotify_modify_watch() to explicity modify a watch descriptor, which would be able to revert unwanted changes. Thus the caller cannot guarantee to be able to revert any changes to existing watch decriptors. Additionally the caller cannot assume that the events that are associated with a watch descriptor are within the set requested, as any future calls to inotify_add_watch() may unintentionally modify a watch descriptor's mask. Thus it cannot currently be guaranteed that a watch descriptor will only generate events which have been requested. The program must filter events which come through its watch descriptor to within its expected range. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Henry Wilson <henry.wilson@acentic.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-06-27fanotify: factor out helpers to add/remove markAmir Goldstein1-57/+29
Factor out helpers fanotify_add_mark() and fanotify_remove_mark() to reduce duplicated code. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-06-27fsnotify: add helper to get mask from connectorAmir Goldstein2-12/+29
Use a helper to get the mask from the object (i.e. i_fsnotify_mask) to generalize code of add/remove inode/vfsmount mark. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-06-27fsnotify: let connector point to an abstract objectAmir Goldstein3-24/+26
Make the code to attach/detach a connector to object more generic by letting the fsnotify connector point to an abstract fsnotify_connp_t. Code that needs to dereference an inode or mount object now uses the helpers fsnotify_conn_{inode,mount}. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-06-27fsnotify: pass connp and object type to fsnotify_add_mark()Amir Goldstein3-33/+38
Instead of passing inode and vfsmount arguments to fsnotify_add_mark() and its _locked variant, pass an abstract object pointer and the object type. The helpers fsnotify_obj_{inode,mount} are added to get the concrete object pointer from abstract object pointer. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-06-27fsnotify: use typedef fsnotify_connp_t for brevityAmir Goldstein2-13/+11
The object marks manipulation functions fsnotify_destroy_marks() fsnotify_find_mark() and their helpers take an argument of type struct fsnotify_mark_connector __rcu ** to dereference the connector pointer. use a typedef to describe this type for brevity. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: add fsnotify_add_inode_mark() wrappersAmir Goldstein2-2/+2
Before changing the arguments of the functions fsnotify_add_mark() and fsnotify_add_mark_locked(), convert most callers to use a wrapper. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fanotify: generalize fanotify_should_send_event()Amir Goldstein1-18/+18
Use fsnotify_foreach_obj_type macros to generalize the code that filters events by marks mask and ignored_mask. This is going to be used for adding mark of super block object type. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: generalize send_to_group()Amir Goldstein1-25/+23
Use fsnotify_foreach_obj_type macros to generalize the code that filters events by marks mask and ignored_mask. This is going to be used for adding mark of super block object type. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: generalize iteration of marks by object typeAmir Goldstein3-36/+47
Make some code that handles marks of object types inode and vfsmount generic, so it can handle other object types. Introduce fsnotify_foreach_obj_type macro to iterate marks by object type and fsnotify_iter_{should|set}_report_type macros to set/test report_mask. This is going to be used for adding mark of another object type (super block mark). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: introduce marks iteration helpersAmir Goldstein1-25/+49
Introduce helpers fsnotify_iter_select_report_types() and fsnotify_iter_next() to abstract the inode/vfsmount marks merged list iteration. This is a preparation patch before generalizing mark list iteration to more mark object types (i.e. super block marks). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: remove redundant arguments to handle_event()Amir Goldstein7-42/+38
inode_mark and vfsmount_mark arguments are passed to handle_event() operation as function arguments as well as on iter_info struct. The difference is that iter_info struct may contain marks that should not be handled and are represented as NULL arguments to inode_mark or vfsmount_mark. Instead of passing the inode_mark and vfsmount_mark arguments, add a report_mask member to iter_info struct to indicate which marks should be handled, versus marks that should only be kept alive during user wait. This change is going to be used for passing more mark types with handle_event() (i.e. super block marks). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-05-18fsnotify: use type id to identify connector object typeAmir Goldstein3-19/+18
An fsnotify_mark_connector is referencing a single type of object (either inode or vfsmount). Instead of storing a type mask in connector->flags, store a single type id in connector->type to identify the type of object. When a connector object is detached from the object, its type is set to FSNOTIFY_OBJ_TYPE_DETACHED and this object is not going to be reused. The function fsnotify_clear_marks_by_group() is the only place where type mask was used, so use type flags instead of type id to this function. This change is going to be more convenient when adding a new object type (super block). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-04-13fsnotify: fix ignore mask logic in send_to_group()Amir Goldstein1-14/+11
The ignore mask logic in send_to_group() does not match the logic in fanotify_should_send_event(). In the latter, a vfsmount mark ignore mask precedes an inode mark mask and in the former, it does not. That difference may cause events to be sent to fanotify backend for no reason. Fix the logic in send_to_group() to match that of fanotify_should_send_event(). Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-04-09fanotify: fix logic of events on childAmir Goldstein1-19/+15
When event on child inodes are sent to the parent inode mark and parent inode mark was not marked with FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD, the event will not be delivered to the listener process. However, if the same process also has a mount mark, the event to the parent inode will be delivered regadless of the mount mark mask. This behavior is incorrect in the case where the mount mark mask does not contain the specific event type. For example, the process adds a mark on a directory with mask FAN_MODIFY (without FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD) and a mount mark with mask FAN_CLOSE_NOWRITE (without FAN_ONDIR). A modify event on a file inside that directory (and inside that mount) should not create a FAN_MODIFY event, because neither of the marks requested to get that event on the file. Fixes: 1968f5eed54c ("fanotify: use both marks when possible") Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-04-05Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds6-10/+48
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull misc filesystem updates from Jan Kara: "udf, ext2, quota, fsnotify fixes & cleanups: - udf fixes for handling of media without uid/gid - udf fixes for some corner cases in parsing of volume recognition sequence - improvements of fsnotify handling of ENOMEM - new ioctl to allow setting of watch descriptor id for inotify (for checkpoint - restart) - small ext2, reiserfs, quota cleanups" * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: quota: Kill an unused extern entry form quota.h reiserfs: Remove VLA from fs/reiserfs/reiserfs.h udf: fix potential refcnt problem of nls module ext2: change return code to -ENOMEM when failing memory allocation udf: Do not mark possibly inconsistent filesystems as closed fsnotify: Let userspace know about lost events due to ENOMEM fanotify: Avoid lost events due to ENOMEM for unlimited queues udf: Remove never implemented mount options udf: Update mount option documentation udf: Provide saner default for invalid uid / gid udf: Clean up handling of invalid uid/gid udf: Apply uid/gid mount options also to new inodes & chown udf: Ignore [ug]id=ignore mount options udf: Fix handling of Partition Descriptors udf: Unify common handling of descriptors udf: Convert descriptor index definitions to enum udf: Allow volume descriptor sequence to be terminated by unrecorded block udf: Simplify handling of Volume Descriptor Pointers udf: Fix off-by-one in volume descriptor sequence length inotify: Extend ioctl to allow to request id of new watch descriptor
2018-04-02fanotify: add do_fanotify_mark() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscallDominik Brodowski1-4/+10
Using the fs-internal do_fanotify_mark() helper allows us to get rid of the fs-internal call to the sys_fanotify_mark() syscall. This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-04-02inotify: add do_inotify_init() helper; remove in-kernel call to syscallDominik Brodowski1-2/+7
Using the inotify-internal do_inotify_init() helper allows us to get rid of the in-kernel call to sys_inotify_init1() syscall. This patch is part of a series which removes in-kernel calls to syscalls. On this basis, the syscall entry path can be streamlined. For details, see http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180325162527.GA17492@light.dominikbrodowski.net Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2018-02-27fsnotify: Let userspace know about lost events due to ENOMEMJan Kara3-3/+17
Currently if notification event is lost due to event allocation failing we ENOMEM, we just silently continue (except for fanotify permission events where we deny the access). This is undesirable as userspace has no way of knowing whether the notifications it got are complete or not. Treat lost events due to ENOMEM the same way as lost events due to queue overflow so that userspace knows something bad happened and it likely needs to rescan the filesystem. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-02-27fanotify: Avoid lost events due to ENOMEM for unlimited queuesJan Kara3-7/+17
Fanotify queues of unlimited length do not expect events can be lost. Since these queues are used for system auditing and other security related tasks, loosing events can even have security implications. Currently, since the allocation is small (32-bytes), it cannot fail however when we start accounting events in memcgs, allocation can start failing. So avoid loosing events due to failure to allocate memory by making event allocation use __GFP_NOFAIL. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-02-14inotify: Extend ioctl to allow to request id of new watch descriptorKirill Tkhai1-0/+14
Watch descriptor is id of the watch created by inotify_add_watch(). It is allocated in inotify_add_to_idr(), and takes the numbers starting from 1. Every new inotify watch obtains next available number (usually, old + 1), as served by idr_alloc_cyclic(). CRIU (Checkpoint/Restore In Userspace) project supports inotify files, and restores watched descriptors with the same numbers, they had before dump. Since there was no kernel support, we had to use cycle to add a watch with specific descriptor id: while (1) { int wd; wd = inotify_add_watch(inotify_fd, path, mask); if (wd < 0) { break; } else if (wd == desired_wd_id) { ret = 0; break; } inotify_rm_watch(inotify_fd, wd); } (You may find the actual code at the below link: https://github.com/checkpoint-restore/criu/blob/v3.7/criu/fsnotify.c#L577) The cycle is suboptiomal and very expensive, but since there is no better kernel support, it was the only way to restore that. Happily, we had met mostly descriptors with small id, and this approach had worked somehow. But recent time containers with inotify with big watch descriptors begun to come, and this way stopped to work at all. When descriptor id is something about 0x34d71d6, the restoring process spins in busy loop for a long time, and the restore hungs and delay of migration from node to node could easily be watched. This patch aims to solve this problem. It introduces new ioctl INOTIFY_IOC_SETNEXTWD, which allows to request the number of next created watch descriptor from userspace. It simply calls idr_set_cursor() primitive to populate idr::idr_next, so that next idr_alloc_cyclic() allocation will return this id, if it is not occupied. This is the way which is used to restore some other resources from userspace. For example, /proc/sys/kernel/ns_last_pid works the same for task pids. The new code is under CONFIG_CHECKPOINT_RESTORE #define, so small system may exclude it. v2: Use INT_MAX instead of custom definition of max id, as IDR subsystem guarantees id is between 0 and INT_MAX. CC: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> CC: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> CC: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Reviewed-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2018-02-11vfs: do bulk POLL* -> EPOLL* replacementLinus Torvalds2-2/+2
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>
2018-01-30Merge branch 'misc.poll' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-4/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull poll annotations from Al Viro: "This introduces a __bitwise type for POLL### bitmap, and propagates the annotations through the tree. Most of that stuff is as simple as 'make ->poll() instances return __poll_t and do the same to local variables used to hold the future return value'. Some of the obvious brainos found in process are fixed (e.g. POLLIN misspelled as POLL_IN). At that point the amount of sparse warnings is low and most of them are for genuine bugs - e.g. ->poll() instance deciding to return -EINVAL instead of a bitmap. I hadn't touched those in this series - it's large enough as it is. Another problem it has caught was eventpoll() ABI mess; select.c and eventpoll.c assumed that corresponding POLL### and EPOLL### were equal. That's true for some, but not all of them - EPOLL### are arch-independent, but POLL### are not. The last commit in this series separates userland POLL### values from the (now arch-independent) kernel-side ones, converting between them in the few places where they are copied to/from userland. AFAICS, this is the least disruptive fix preserving poll(2) ABI and making epoll() work on all architectures. As it is, it's simply broken on sparc - try to give it EPOLLWRNORM and it will trigger only on what would've triggered EPOLLWRBAND on other architectures. EPOLLWRBAND and EPOLLRDHUP, OTOH, are never triggered at all on sparc. With this patch they should work consistently on all architectures" * 'misc.poll' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (37 commits) make kernel-side POLL... arch-independent eventpoll: no need to mask the result of epi_item_poll() again eventpoll: constify struct epoll_event pointers debugging printk in sg_poll() uses %x to print POLL... bitmap annotate poll(2) guts 9p: untangle ->poll() mess ->si_band gets POLL... bitmap stored into a user-visible long field ring_buffer_poll_wait() return value used as return value of ->poll() the rest of drivers/*: annotate ->poll() instances media: annotate ->poll() instances fs: annotate ->poll() instances ipc, kernel, mm: annotate ->poll() instances net: annotate ->poll() instances apparmor: annotate ->poll() instances tomoyo: annotate ->poll() instances sound: annotate ->poll() instances acpi: annotate ->poll() instances crypto: annotate ->poll() instances block: annotate ->poll() instances x86: annotate ->poll() instances ...
2017-11-27fs: annotate ->poll() instancesAl Viro2-4/+4
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2017-11-27Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz)Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
This is a pure automated search-and-replace of the internal kernel superblock flags. The s_flags are now called SB_*, with the names and the values for the moment mirroring the MS_* flags that they're equivalent to. Note how the MS_xyz flags are the ones passed to the mount system call, while the SB_xyz flags are what we then use in sb->s_flags. The script to do this was: # places to look in; re security/*: it generally should *not* be # touched (that stuff parses mount(2) arguments directly), but # there are two places where we really deal with superblock flags. FILES="drivers/mtd drivers/staging/lustre fs ipc mm \ include/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h \ security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c security/apparmor/include/lib.h" # the list of MS_... constants SYMS="RDONLY NOSUID NODEV NOEXEC SYNCHRONOUS REMOUNT MANDLOCK \ DIRSYNC NOATIME NODIRATIME BIND MOVE REC VERBOSE SILENT \ POSIXACL UNBINDABLE PRIVATE SLAVE SHARED RELATIME KERNMOUNT \ I_VERSION STRICTATIME LAZYTIME SUBMOUNT NOREMOTELOCK NOSEC BORN \ ACTIVE NOUSER" SED_PROG= for i in $SYMS; do SED_PROG="$SED_PROG -e s/MS_$i/SB_$i/g"; done # we want files that contain at least one of MS_..., # with fs/namespace.c and fs/pnode.c excluded. L=$(for i in $SYMS; do git grep -w -l MS_$i $FILES; done| sort|uniq|grep -v '^fs/namespace.c'|grep -v '^fs/pnode.c') for f in $L; do sed -i $f $SED_PROG; done Requested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-11-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "The usual rocket-science from trivial tree for 4.15" * 'for-linus' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: MAINTAINERS: relinquish kconfig MAINTAINERS: Update my email address treewide: Fix typos in Kconfig kfifo: Fix comments init/Kconfig: Fix module signing document location misc: ibmasm: Return error on error path HID: logitech-hidpp: fix mistake in printk, "feeback" -> "feedback" MAINTAINERS: Correct path to uDraw PS3 driver tracing: Fix doc mistakes in trace sample tracing: Kconfig text fixes for CONFIG_HWLAT_TRACER MIPS: Alchemy: Remove reverted CONFIG_NETLINK_MMAP from db1xxx_defconfig mm/huge_memory.c: fixup grammar in comment lib/xz: Add fall-through comments to a switch statement
2017-11-14Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds3-2/+25
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull quota, ext2, isofs and udf fixes from Jan Kara: - two small quota error handling fixes - two isofs fixes for architectures with signed char - several udf block number overflow and signedness fixes - ext2 rework of mount option handling to avoid GFP_KERNEL allocation with spinlock held - ... it also contains a patch to implement auditing of responses to fanotify permission events. That should have been in the fanotify pull request but I mistakenly merged that patch into a wrong branch and noticed only now at which point I don't think it's worth rebasing and redoing. * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: quota: be aware of error from dquot_initialize quota: fix potential infinite loop isofs: use unsigned char types consistently isofs: fix timestamps beyond 2027 udf: Fix some sign-conversion warnings udf: Fix signed/unsigned format specifiers udf: Fix 64-bit sign extension issues affecting blocks > 0x7FFFFFFF udf: Remove some outdate references from documentation udf: Avoid overflow when session starts at large offset ext2: Fix possible sleep in atomic during mount option parsing ext2: Parse mount options into a dedicated structure audit: Record fanotify access control decisions
2017-11-14Merge branch 'fsnotify' of ↵Linus Torvalds8-181/+158
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs Pull fsnotify updates from Jan Kara: - fixes of use-after-tree issues when handling fanotify permission events from Miklos - refcount_t conversions from Elena - fixes of ENOMEM handling in dnotify and fsnotify from me * 'fsnotify' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs: fsnotify: convert fsnotify_mark.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t fanotify: clean up CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS ifdefs fsnotify: clean up fsnotify() fanotify: fix fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() failure fsnotify: fix pinning group in fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() fsnotify: pin both inode and vfsmount mark fsnotify: clean up fsnotify_prepare/finish_user_wait() fsnotify: convert fsnotify_group.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_t fsnotify: Protect bail out path of fsnotify_add_mark_locked() properly dnotify: Handle errors from fsnotify_add_mark_locked() in fcntl_dirnotify()
2017-11-02License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman8-0/+8
Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-10-31fsnotify: convert fsnotify_mark.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_tElena Reshetova2-9/+9
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable fsnotify_mark.refcnt is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fanotify: clean up CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS ifdefsMiklos Szeredi3-52/+29
The only negative from this patch should be an addition of 32bytes to 'struct fsnotify_group' if CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS is not defined. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: clean up fsnotify()Miklos Szeredi1-60/+45
Use helpers to get first and next marks from connector. Also get rid of inode_node/vfsmount_node local variables, which just refers to the same objects as iter_info. There was an srcu_dereference() for foo_node, but that's completely superfluous since we've already done it when obtaining foo_node. Also get rid of inode_group/vfsmount_group local variables; checking against non-NULL for these is the same as checking against non-NULL inode_mark/vfsmount_mark. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fanotify: fix fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() failureMiklos Szeredi1-13/+20
If fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() fails, we leave the event on the notification list. Which will result in a warning in fsnotify_destroy_event() and later use-after-free. Instead of adding a new helper to remove the event from the list in this case, I opted to move the prepare/finish up into fanotify_handle_event(). This will allow these to be moved further out into the generic code later, and perhaps let us move to non-sleeping RCU. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: 05f0e38724e8 ("fanotify: Release SRCU lock when waiting for userspace response") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: fix pinning group in fsnotify_prepare_user_wait()Miklos Szeredi1-14/+11
Blind increment of group's user_waits is not enough, we could be far enough in the group's destruction that it isn't taken into account (i.e. grabbing the mark ref afterwards doesn't guarantee that it was the ref coming from the _group_ that was grabbed). Instead we need to check (under lock) that the mark is still attached to the group after having obtained a ref to the mark. If not, skip it. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: 9385a84d7e1f ("fsnotify: Pass fsnotify_iter_info into handle_event handler") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: pin both inode and vfsmount markMiklos Szeredi1-3/+7
We may fail to pin one of the marks in fsnotify_prepare_user_wait() when dropping the srcu read lock, resulting in use after free at the next iteration. Solution is to store both marks in iter_info instead of just the one we'll be sending the event for. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Fixes: 9385a84d7e1f ("fsnotify: Pass fsnotify_iter_info into handle_event handler") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: clean up fsnotify_prepare/finish_user_wait()Miklos Szeredi1-48/+48
This patch doesn't actually fix any bug, just paves the way for fixing mark and group pinning. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.12 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: convert fsnotify_group.refcnt from atomic_t to refcount_tElena Reshetova1-3/+3
atomic_t variables are currently used to implement reference counters with the following properties: - counter is initialized to 1 using atomic_set() - a resource is freed upon counter reaching zero - once counter reaches zero, its further increments aren't allowed - counter schema uses basic atomic operations (set, inc, inc_not_zero, dec_and_test, etc.) Such atomic variables should be converted to a newly provided refcount_t type and API that prevents accidental counter overflows and underflows. This is important since overflows and underflows can lead to use-after-free situation and be exploitable. The variable fsnotify_group.refcnt is used as pure reference counter. Convert it to refcount_t and fix up the operations. Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: David Windsor <dwindsor@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Hans Liljestrand <ishkamiel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31fsnotify: Protect bail out path of fsnotify_add_mark_locked() properlyJan Kara1-0/+2
When fsnotify_add_mark_locked() fails it cleans up the mark it was adding. Since the mark is already visible in group's list, we should protect update of mark->flags with mark->lock. I'm not aware of any real issues this could cause (since we also hold group->mark_mutex) but better be safe and obey locking rules properly. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-31dnotify: Handle errors from fsnotify_add_mark_locked() in fcntl_dirnotify()Jan Kara1-1/+6
fsnotify_add_mark_locked() can fail but we do not check its return value. This didn't matter before commit 9dd813c15b2c "fsnotify: Move mark list head from object into dedicated structure" as none of possible failures could happen for dnotify but after that commit -ENOMEM can be returned. Handle this error properly in fcntl_dirnotify() as otherwise we just hit BUG_ON(dn_mark->dn) in dnotify_free_mark(). Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Reported-by: syzkaller Fixes: 9dd813c15b2c101168808d4f5941a29985758973 Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-10-12treewide: Fix typos in KconfigMasanari Iida1-1/+1
This patch fixes some spelling typos found in Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-10-10audit: Record fanotify access control decisionsSteve Grubb3-2/+25
The fanotify interface allows user space daemons to make access control decisions. Under common criteria requirements, we need to optionally record decisions based on policy. This patch adds a bit mask, FAN_AUDIT, that a user space daemon can 'or' into the response decision which will tell the kernel that it made a decision and record it. It would be used something like this in user space code: response.response = FAN_DENY | FAN_AUDIT; write(fd, &response, sizeof(struct fanotify_response)); When the syscall ends, the audit system will record the decision as a AUDIT_FANOTIFY auxiliary record to denote that the reason this event occurred is the result of an access control decision from fanotify rather than DAC or MAC policy. A sample event looks like this: type=PATH msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): item=0 name="./evil-ls" inode=1319561 dev=fc:03 mode=0100755 ouid=1000 ogid=1000 rdev=00:00 obj=unconfined_u:object_r:user_home_t:s0 nametype=NORMAL type=CWD msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): cwd="/home/sgrubb" type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): arch=c000003e syscall=2 success=no exit=-1 a0=32cb3fca90 a1=0 a2=43 a3=8 items=1 ppid=901 pid=959 auid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000 euid=1000 suid=1000 fsuid=1000 egid=1000 sgid=1000 fsgid=1000 tty=pts1 ses=3 comm="bash" exe="/usr/bin/bash" subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t: s0-s0:c0.c1023 key=(null) type=FANOTIFY msg=audit(1504310584.332:290): resp=2 Prior to using the audit flag, the developer needs to call fanotify_init or'ing in FAN_ENABLE_AUDIT to ensure that the kernel supports auditing. The calling process must also have the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE capability. Signed-off-by: sgrubb <sgrubb@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-08-30fsnotify: make dnotify_fsnotify_ops constBhumika Goyal1-1/+1
Make this const as it is never modified. Signed-off-by: Bhumika Goyal <bhumirks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2017-07-07dentry name snapshotsAl Viro1-2/+6
take_dentry_name_snapshot() takes a safe snapshot of dentry name; if the name is a short one, it gets copied into caller-supplied structure, otherwise an extra reference to external name is grabbed (those are never modified). In either case the pointer to stable string is stored into the same structure. dentry must be held by the caller of take_dentry_name_snapshot(), but may be freely dropped afterwards - the snapshot will stay until destroyed by release_dentry_name_snapshot(). Intended use: struct name_snapshot s; take_dentry_name_snapshot(&s, dentry); ... access s.name ... release_dentry_name_snapshot(&s); Replaces fsnotify_oldname_...(), gets used in fsnotify to obtain the name to pass down with event. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>