There is a security report where f2fs_getxattr() has a hole to expose wrong
memory region when the image is malformed like this.
f2fs_getxattr: entry->e_name_len: 4, size: 12288, buffer_size: 16384, len: 4
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
For all ordered cases in f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback(), we need to
check PageWriteback status, so let's clean up to relocate the check
into f2fs_wait_on_page_writeback().
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Remove the verbose license text from f2fs files and replace them with
SPDX tags. This does not change the license of any of the code.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In order to give advise to f2fs to recognize hot/cold file, it is possible
that we can set specific bit in inode.i_advise through setxattr(), but
there are several bits which are used internally, such as encrypt_bit,
keep_size_bit, they should never be changed through setxattr().
So that this patch 1) adds FADVISE_MODIFIABLE_BITS to filter modifiable
bits user given, 2) supports to clear {hot,cold}_file bits.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Because xattr_permission already checks CAP_SYS_ADMIN
capability, we don't need to check it.
Signed-off-by: Hyunchul Lee <cheol.lee@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
As Ted reported:
"Hi, I was looking at f2fs's sources recently, and I noticed that there
is a very large number of non-static symbols which don't have a f2fs
prefix. There's well over a hundred (see attached below).
As one example, in fs/f2fs/dir.c there is:
unsigned char get_de_type(struct f2fs_dir_entry *de)
This function is clearly only useful for f2fs, but it has a generic
name. This means that if any other file system tries to have the same
symbol name, there will be a symbol conflict and the kernel would not
successfully build. It also means that when someone is looking f2fs
sources, it's not at all obvious whether a function such as
read_data_page(), invalidate_blocks(), is a generic kernel function
found in the fs, mm, or block layers, or a f2fs specific function.
You might want to fix this at some point. Hopefully Kent's bcachefs
isn't similarly using genericly named functions, since that might
cause conflicts with f2fs's functions --- but just as this would be a
problem that we would rightly insist that Kent fix, this is something
that we should have rightly insisted that f2fs should have fixed
before it was integrated into the mainline kernel.
acquire_orphan_inode
add_ino_entry
add_orphan_inode
allocate_data_block
allocate_new_segments
alloc_nid
alloc_nid_done
alloc_nid_failed
available_free_memory
...."
This patch adds "f2fs_" prefix for all non-static symbols in order to:
a) avoid conflict with other kernel generic symbols;
b) to indicate the function is f2fs specific one instead of generic
one;
Reported-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
__vfs_removexattr() transfers "NULL" value to the setxattr handler of
the f2fs filesystem in order to remove the extended attribute. But,
__f2fs_setxattr() just ignores the removal request when the value of
the extended attribute is already NULL. We have to remove the extended
attribute itself even if the value of that is already NULL.
We can reporduce this bug with the below:
1. touch file
2. setfattr -n "user.foo" file
3. setfattr -x "user.foo" file
4. getfattr -d file
> user.foo
Signed-off-by: Daeho Jeong <daeho.jeong@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Youngjin Gil <youngjin.gil@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Hobin Woo <hobin.woo@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This fixes generic/449 hang problem caused by no ENOSPC forever which should be
returned by setxattr under disk full scenario.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch introduces f2fs_kzalloc based on f2fs_kmalloc in order to
support error injection for kzalloc().
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch fixes recovering incomplete xattr entries remaining in inline xattr
and xattr block, caused by any kind of errors.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Now, in product, more and more features based on file encryption were
introduced, their demand of xattr space is increasing, however, inline
xattr has fixed-size of 200 bytes, once inline xattr space is full, new
increased xattr data would occupy additional xattr block which may bring
us more space usage and performance regression during persisting.
In order to resolve above issue, it's better to expand inline xattr size
flexibly according to user's requirement.
So this patch introduces new filesystem feature 'flexible inline xattr',
and new mount option 'inline_xattr_size=%u', once mkfs enables the
feature, we can use the option to make f2fs supporting flexible inline
xattr size.
To support this feature, we add extra attribute i_inline_xattr_size in
inode layout, indicating that how many space inline xattr borrows from
block address mapping space in inode layout, by this, we can easily
locate and store flexible-sized inline xattr data in inode.
Inode disk layout:
+----------------------+
| .i_mode |
| ... |
| .i_ext |
+----------------------+
| .i_extra_isize |
| .i_inline_xattr_size |-----------+
| ... | |
+----------------------+ |
| .i_addr | |
| - block address or | |
| - inline data | |
+----------------------+<---+ v
| inline xattr | +---inline xattr range
+----------------------+<---+
| .i_nid |
+----------------------+
| node_footer |
| (nid, ino, offset) |
+----------------------+
Note that, we have to cnosider backward compatibility which reserved
inline_data space, 200 bytes, all the time, reported by Sheng Yong.
Previous inline data or directory always reserved 200 bytes in inode layout,
even if inline_xattr is disabled. In order to keep inline_dentry's structure
for backward compatibility, we get the space back only from inline_data.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Reported-by: Sheng Yong <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds to call quota_intialize in f2fs_set_acl, f2fs_unlink,
and f2fs_rename.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch removes obosolete parameter for truncate_xattr_node.
Suggested-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Commit ba38c27eb9 ("f2fs: enhance lookup xattr") introduces
lookup_all_xattrs duplicating from read_all_xattrs, which leaves
lots of similar codes in between them, so introduce new help
read_xattr_block to clean up redundant codes.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Commit ba38c27eb9 ("f2fs: enhance lookup xattr") introduces
lookup_all_xattrs duplicating from read_all_xattrs, which leaves
lots of similar codes in between them, so introduce new help
read_inline_xattr to clean up redundant codes.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch remove unused input parameter in function
new_node_page.
Signed-off-by: Yunlei He <heyunlei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Yong Sheng <shengyong1@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch fixes missing le16 conversion, reported by kbuild test robot.
Fixes: 5f35a2cd5 ("f2fs: Don't update the xattr data that same as the exist")
Reviewed-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
f2fs removes the old xattr data and appends the new data although
the new data is same as the exist.
Signed-off-by: Kinglong Mee <kinglongmee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Currently, if we call fsync after updating the xattr date belongs to the
file, f2fs needs to trigger checkpoint to keep xattr data consistent. But,
this policy cause low performance as checkpoint will block most foreground
operations and cause unneeded and unrelated IOs around checkpoint.
This patch will reuse regular file recovery policy for xattr node block,
so, we change to write xattr node block tagged with fsync flag to warm
area instead of cold area, and during recovery, we search warm node chain
for fsynced xattr block, and do the recovery.
So, for below application IO pattern, performance can be improved
obviously:
- touch file
- create/update/delete xattr entry in file
- fsync file
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Previously, in getxattr we will load all entries both in inline xattr and
xattr node block, and then do the lookup in all entries, but our lookup
flow shows low efficiency, since if we can lookup and hit in inline xattr
of inode page cache first, we don't need to load and lookup xattr node
block, which can obviously save cpu time and IO latency.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
[Jaegeuk Kim: initialize NULL to avoid warning]
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This is to avoid no free segment bug during checkpoint caused by a number of
dirty inodes.
The case was reported by Chao like this.
1. mount with lazytime option
2. fill 4k file until disk is full
3. sync filesystem
4. read all files in the image
5. umount
In this case, we actually don't need to flush dirty inode to inode page during
checkpoint.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
vfs: Add current_time() api
vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
current_fs_time() uses struct super_block* as an argument.
As per Linus's suggestion, this is changed to take struct
inode* as a parameter instead. This is because the function
is primarily meant for vfs inode timestamps.
Also the function was renamed as per Arnd's suggestion.
Change all calls to current_fs_time() to use the new
current_time() function instead. current_fs_time() will be
deleted.
Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
We treat all error in read_all_xattrs as a no memory error, which covers
the real reason of failure in it. Fix it by return correct errno in order
to reflect the real cause.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch enhances the xattr consistency of dirs from suddern power-cuts.
Possible scenario would be:
1. dir->setxattr used by per-file encryption
2. file->setxattr goes into inline_xattr
3. file->fsync
In that case, we should do checkpoint for #1.
Otherwise we'd lose dir's key information for the file given #2.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
When base_addr is NULL, there is no need to call kzfree,
it should return -ENOMEM directly. Additionally, it is
better to initialize variable 'error' with 0.
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <kernelpatch@126.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch reduces to call them across the whole tree.
- sync_inode_page()
- update_inode_page()
- update_inode()
- f2fs_write_inode()
Instead, checkpoint will flush all the dirty inode metadata before syncing
node pages.
Note that, this is doable, since we call mark_inode_dirty_sync() for all
inode's field change which needs to update on-disk inode as well.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch calls mark_inode_dirty_sync() for the following on-disk inode
changes.
-> largest
-> ctime/mtime/atime
-> i_current_depth
-> i_xattr_nid
-> i_pino
-> i_advise
-> i_flags
-> i_mode
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
- fs-specific prefix for fscrypto
- fault injection facility
- expose validity bitmaps for user to be aware of fragmentation
- fallocate/rm/preallocation speed up
- use percpu counters
Bug fixes
- some inline_dentry/inline_data bugs
- error handling for atomic/volatile/orphan inodes
- recover broken superblock
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Merge tag 'for-f2fs-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"In this round, as Ted pointed out, fscrypto allows one more key prefix
given by filesystem to resolve backward compatibility issues. Other
than that, we've fixed several error handling cases by introducing
a fault injection facility. We've also achieved performance
improvement in some workloads as well as a bunch of bug fixes.
Summary:
Enhancements:
- fs-specific prefix for fscrypto
- fault injection facility
- expose validity bitmaps for user to be aware of fragmentation
- fallocate/rm/preallocation speed up
- use percpu counters
Bug fixes:
- some inline_dentry/inline_data bugs
- error handling for atomic/volatile/orphan inodes
- recover broken superblock"
* tag 'for-f2fs-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (73 commits)
f2fs: fix to update dirty page count correctly
f2fs: flush pending bios right away when error occurs
f2fs: avoid ENOSPC fault in the recovery process
f2fs: make exit_f2fs_fs more clear
f2fs: use percpu_counter for total_valid_inode_count
f2fs: use percpu_counter for alloc_valid_block_count
f2fs: use percpu_counter for # of dirty pages in inode
f2fs: use percpu_counter for page counters
f2fs: use bio count instead of F2FS_WRITEBACK page count
f2fs: manipulate dirty file inodes when DATA_FLUSH is set
f2fs: add fault injection to sysfs
f2fs: no need inc dirty pages under inode lock
f2fs: fix incorrect error path handling in f2fs_move_rehashed_dirents
f2fs: fix i_current_depth during inline dentry conversion
f2fs: correct return value type of f2fs_fill_super
f2fs: fix deadlock when flush inline data
f2fs: avoid f2fs_bug_on during recovery
f2fs: show # of orphan inodes
f2fs: support in batch fzero in dnode page
f2fs: support in batch multi blocks preallocation
...
Each of fields in struct f2fs_xattr_entry will be assigned later,
so previously we don't need to memset the struct.
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <yuchao0@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch returns -E2BIG if there is no space to add an xattr entry.
This should fix generic/026 in xfstests as well.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
In write_begin, if storage supports stable_page, we don't need to wait for
writeback to update its contents.
This patch introduces to use wait_for_stable_page instead of
wait_on_page_writeback.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"This series adds two ioctls to control cached data and fragmented
files. Most of the rest fixes missing error cases and bugs that we
have not covered so far. Summary:
Enhancements:
- support an ioctl to execute online file defragmentation
- support an ioctl to flush cached data
- speed up shrinking of extent_cache entries
- handle broken superblock
- refector dirty inode management infra
- revisit f2fs_map_blocks to handle more cases
- reduce global lock coverage
- add detecting user's idle time
Major bug fixes:
- fix data race condition on cached nat entries
- fix error cases of volatile and atomic writes"
* tag 'for-f2fs-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (87 commits)
f2fs: should unset atomic flag after successful commit
f2fs: fix wrong memory condition check
f2fs: monitor the number of background checkpoint
f2fs: detect idle time depending on user behavior
f2fs: introduce time and interval facility
f2fs: skip releasing nodes in chindless extent tree
f2fs: use atomic type for node count in extent tree
f2fs: recognize encrypted data in f2fs_fiemap
f2fs: clean up f2fs_balance_fs
f2fs: remove redundant calls
f2fs: avoid unnecessary f2fs_balance_fs calls
f2fs: check the page status filled from disk
f2fs: introduce __get_node_page to reuse common code
f2fs: check node id earily when readaheading node page
f2fs: read isize while holding i_mutex in fiemap
Revert "f2fs: check the node block address of newly allocated nid"
f2fs: cover more area with nat_tree_lock
f2fs: introduce max_file_blocks in sbi
f2fs crypto: check CONFIG_F2FS_FS_XATTR for encrypted symlink
f2fs: introduce zombie list for fast shrinking extent trees
...
This patch adds last time that user requested filesystem operations.
This information is used to detect whether system is idle or not later.
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Change the list operation to only return whether or not an attribute
should be listed. Copying the attribute names into the buffer is moved
to the callers.
Since the result only depends on the dentry and not on the attribute
name, we do not pass the attribute name to list operations.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Add an additional "name" field to struct xattr_handler. When the name
is set, the handler matches attributes with exactly that name. When the
prefix is set instead, the handler matches attributes with the given
prefix and with a non-empty suffix.
This patch should avoid bugs like the one fixed in commit c361016a in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Now that the xattr handler is passed to the xattr handler operations, we
have access to the attribute name prefix, so simplify
f2fs_xattr_generic_list.
Also, f2fs_xattr_advise_list is only ever called for
f2fs_xattr_advise_handler; there is no need to double check for that.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Cc: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Cc: Changman Lee <cm224.lee@samsung.com>
Cc: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
The xattr_handler operations are currently all passed a file system
specific flags value which the operations can use to disambiguate between
different handlers; some file systems use that to distinguish the xattr
namespace, for example. In some oprations, it would be useful to also have
access to the handler prefix. To allow that, pass a pointer to the handler
to operations instead of the flags value alone.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch fixes to return correct error number of ->setxattr, which
is reported by xfstest tests/generic/026 as below:
generic/026 - output mismatch
--- tests/generic/026.out
+++ results/generic/026.out.bad
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
1 below acl max
acl max
1 above acl max
-chacl: cannot set access acl on "largeaclfile": Argument list too long
+chacl: cannot set access acl on "largeaclfile": Numerical result out of range
use 16 aces
use 17 aces
...
Ran: generic/026
Failures: generic/026
Failed 1 of 1 tests
Signed-off-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
This patch adds encryption policy and password salt support through ioctl
implementation.
It adds three ioctls:
F2FS_IOC_SET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY,
F2FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_POLICY,
F2FS_IOC_GET_ENCRYPTION_PWSALT, which use xattr operations.
Note that, these definition and codes are taken from ext4 crypto support.
For f2fs, xattr operations and on-disk flags for superblock and inode were
changed.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Ildar Muslukhov <muslukhovi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Pull fourth vfs update from Al Viro:
"d_inode() annotations from David Howells (sat in for-next since before
the beginning of merge window) + four assorted fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
RCU pathwalk breakage when running into a symlink overmounting something
fix I_DIO_WAKEUP definition
direct-io: only inc/dec inode->i_dio_count for file systems
fs/9p: fix readdir()
VFS: assorted d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/inode.c helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: fs/cachefiles: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: fs library helpers: d_inode() annotations
VFS: assorted weird filesystems: d_inode() annotations
VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: security/: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: net/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: net/unix: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: kernel/: d_inode() annotations
VFS: audit: d_backing_inode() annotations
VFS: Fix up some ->d_inode accesses in the chelsio driver
VFS: Cachefiles should perform fs modifications on the top layer only
VFS: AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only
