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2019-03-12Merge branch 'work.mount' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs mount infrastructure updates from Al Viro: "The rest of core infrastructure; no new syscalls in that pile, but the old parts are switched to new infrastructure. At that point conversions of individual filesystems can happen independently; some are done here (afs, cgroup, procfs, etc.), there's also a large series outside of that pile dealing with NFS (quite a bit of option-parsing stuff is getting used there - it's one of the most convoluted filesystems in terms of mount-related logics), but NFS bits are the next cycle fodder. It got seriously simplified since the last cycle; documentation is probably the weakest bit at the moment - I considered dropping the commit introducing Documentation/filesystems/mount_api.txt (cutting the size increase by quarter ;-), but decided that it would be better to fix it up after -rc1 instead. That pile allows to do followup work in independent branches, which should make life much easier for the next cycle. fs/super.c size increase is unpleasant; there's a followup series that allows to shrink it considerably, but I decided to leave that until the next cycle" * 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (41 commits) afs: Use fs_context to pass parameters over automount afs: Add fs_context support vfs: Add some logging to the core users of the fs_context log vfs: Implement logging through fs_context vfs: Provide documentation for new mount API vfs: Remove kern_mount_data() hugetlbfs: Convert to fs_context cpuset: Use fs_context kernfs, sysfs, cgroup, intel_rdt: Support fs_context cgroup: store a reference to cgroup_ns into cgroup_fs_context cgroup1_get_tree(): separate "get cgroup_root to use" into a separate helper cgroup_do_mount(): massage calling conventions cgroup: stash cgroup_root reference into cgroup_fs_context cgroup2: switch to option-by-option parsing cgroup1: switch to option-by-option parsing cgroup: take options parsing into ->parse_monolithic() cgroup: fold cgroup1_mount() into cgroup1_get_tree() cgroup: start switching to fs_context ipc: Convert mqueue fs to fs_context proc: Add fs_context support to procfs ...
2019-03-10Merge branch 'next-integrity' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull integrity updates from James Morris: "Mimi Zohar says: 'Linux 5.0 introduced the platform keyring to allow verifying the IMA kexec kernel image signature using the pre-boot keys. This pull request similarly makes keys on the platform keyring accessible for verifying the PE kernel image signature. Also included in this pull request is a new IMA hook that tags tmp files, in policy, indicating the file hash needs to be calculated. The remaining patches are cleanup'" * 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: evm: Use defined constant for UUID representation ima: define ima_post_create_tmpfile() hook and add missing call evm: remove set but not used variable 'xattr' encrypted-keys: fix Opt_err/Opt_error = -1 kexec, KEYS: Make use of platform keyring for signature verify integrity, KEYS: add a reference to platform keyring
2019-03-07Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-2/+0
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: - some of the rest of MM - various misc things - dynamic-debug updates - checkpatch - some epoll speedups - autofs - rapidio - lib/, lib/lzo/ updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (83 commits) samples/mic/mpssd/mpssd.h: remove duplicate header kernel/fork.c: remove duplicated include include/linux/relay.h: fix percpu annotation in struct rchan arch/nios2/mm/fault.c: remove duplicate include unicore32: stop printing the virtual memory layout MAINTAINERS: fix GTA02 entry and mark as orphan mm: create the new vm_fault_t type arm, s390, unicore32: remove oneliner wrappers for memblock_alloc() arch: simplify several early memory allocations openrisc: simplify pte_alloc_one_kernel() sh: prefer memblock APIs returning virtual address microblaze: prefer memblock API returning virtual address powerpc: prefer memblock APIs returning virtual address lib/lzo: separate lzo-rle from lzo lib/lzo: implement run-length encoding lib/lzo: fast 8-byte copy on arm64 lib/lzo: 64-bit CTZ on arm64 lib/lzo: tidy-up ifdefs ipc/sem.c: replace kvmalloc/memset with kvzalloc and use struct_size ipc: annotate implicit fall through ...
2019-03-07linux/fs.h: move member alignment check next to definition of struct filenameRasmus Villemoes1-2/+0
Instead of doing this compile-time check in some slightly arbitrary user of struct filename, put it next to the definition. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190208203015.29702-3-linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-02-28vfs: Add configuration parser helpersDavid Howells1-2/+2
Because the new API passes in key,value parameters, match_token() cannot be used with it. Instead, provide three new helpers to aid with parsing: (1) fs_parse(). This takes a parameter and a simple static description of all the parameters and maps the key name to an ID. It returns 1 on a match, 0 on no match if unknowns should be ignored and some other negative error code on a parse error. The parameter description includes a list of key names to IDs, desired parameter types and a list of enumeration name -> ID mappings. [!] Note that for the moment I've required that the key->ID mapping array is expected to be sorted and unterminated. The size of the array is noted in the fsconfig_parser struct. This allows me to use bsearch(), but I'm not sure any performance gain is worth the hassle of requiring people to keep the array sorted. The parameter type array is sized according to the number of parameter IDs and is indexed directly. The optional enum mapping array is an unterminated, unsorted list and the size goes into the fsconfig_parser struct. The function can do some additional things: (a) If it's not ambiguous and no value is given, the prefix "no" on a key name is permitted to indicate that the parameter should be considered negatory. (b) If the desired type is a single simple integer, it will perform an appropriate conversion and store the result in a union in the parse result. (c) If the desired type is an enumeration, {key ID, name} will be looked up in the enumeration list and the matching value will be stored in the parse result union. (d) Optionally generate an error if the key is unrecognised. This is called something like: enum rdt_param { Opt_cdp, Opt_cdpl2, Opt_mba_mpbs, nr__rdt_params }; const struct fs_parameter_spec rdt_param_specs[nr__rdt_params] = { [Opt_cdp] = { fs_param_is_bool }, [Opt_cdpl2] = { fs_param_is_bool }, [Opt_mba_mpbs] = { fs_param_is_bool }, }; const const char *const rdt_param_keys[nr__rdt_params] = { [Opt_cdp] = "cdp", [Opt_cdpl2] = "cdpl2", [Opt_mba_mpbs] = "mba_mbps", }; const struct fs_parameter_description rdt_parser = { .name = "rdt", .nr_params = nr__rdt_params, .keys = rdt_param_keys, .specs = rdt_param_specs, .no_source = true, }; int rdt_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param) { struct fs_parse_result parse; struct rdt_fs_context *ctx = rdt_fc2context(fc); int ret; ret = fs_parse(fc, &rdt_parser, param, &parse); if (ret < 0) return ret; switch (parse.key) { case Opt_cdp: ctx->enable_cdpl3 = true; return 0; case Opt_cdpl2: ctx->enable_cdpl2 = true; return 0; case Opt_mba_mpbs: ctx->enable_mba_mbps = true; return 0; } return -EINVAL; } (2) fs_lookup_param(). This takes a { dirfd, path, LOOKUP_EMPTY? } or string value and performs an appropriate path lookup to convert it into a path object, which it will then return. If the desired type was a blockdev, the type of the looked up inode will be checked to make sure it is one. This can be used like: enum foo_param { Opt_source, nr__foo_params }; const struct fs_parameter_spec foo_param_specs[nr__foo_params] = { [Opt_source] = { fs_param_is_blockdev }, }; const char *char foo_param_keys[nr__foo_params] = { [Opt_source] = "source", }; const struct constant_table foo_param_alt_keys[] = { { "device", Opt_source }, }; const struct fs_parameter_description foo_parser = { .name = "foo", .nr_params = nr__foo_params, .nr_alt_keys = ARRAY_SIZE(foo_param_alt_keys), .keys = foo_param_keys, .alt_keys = foo_param_alt_keys, .specs = foo_param_specs, }; int foo_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc, struct fs_parameter *param) { struct fs_parse_result parse; struct foo_fs_context *ctx = foo_fc2context(fc); int ret; ret = fs_parse(fc, &foo_parser, param, &parse); if (ret < 0) return ret; switch (parse.key) { case Opt_source: return fs_lookup_param(fc, &foo_parser, param, &parse, &ctx->source); default: return -EINVAL; } } (3) lookup_constant(). This takes a table of named constants and looks up the given name within it. The table is expected to be sorted such that bsearch() be used upon it. Possibly I should require the table be terminated and just use a for-loop to scan it instead of using bsearch() to reduce hassle. Tables look something like: static const struct constant_table bool_names[] = { { "0", false }, { "1", true }, { "false", false }, { "no", false }, { "true", true }, { "yes", true }, }; and a lookup is done with something like: b = lookup_constant(bool_names, param->string, -1); Additionally, optional validation routines for the parameter description are provided that can be enabled at compile time. A later patch will invoke these when a filesystem is registered. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-02-04ima: define ima_post_create_tmpfile() hook and add missing callMimi Zohar1-0/+1
If tmpfiles can be made persistent, then newly created tmpfiles need to be treated like any other new files in policy. This patch indicates which newly created tmpfiles are in policy, causing the file hash to be calculated on __fput(). Reported-by: Ignaz Forster <ignaz.forster@gmx.de> [rgoldwyn@suse.com: Call ima_post_create_tmpfile() in vfs_tmpfile() as opposed to do_tmpfile(). This will help the case for overlayfs where copy_up is denied while overwriting a file.] Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-30audit: ignore fcaps on umountRichard Guy Briggs1-1/+1
Don't fetch fcaps when umount2 is called to avoid a process hang while it waits for the missing resource to (possibly never) re-appear. Note the comment above user_path_mountpoint_at(): * A umount is a special case for path walking. We're not actually interested * in the inode in this situation, and ESTALE errors can be a problem. We * simply want track down the dentry and vfsmount attached at the mountpoint * and avoid revalidating the last component. This can happen on ceph, cifs, 9p, lustre, fuse (gluster) or NFS. Please see the github issue tracker https://github.com/linux-audit/audit-kernel/issues/100 Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com> [PM: merge fuzz in audit_log_fcaps()] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
2018-12-22Revert "vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems."Christian Brauner1-2/+1
This reverts commit 55956b59df336f6738da916dbb520b6e37df9fbd. commit 55956b59df33 ("vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems.") enabled mknod() in user namespaces for userns root if CAP_MKNOD is available. However, these device nodes are useless since any filesystem mounted from a non-initial user namespace will set the SB_I_NODEV flag on the filesystem. Now, when a device node s created in a non-initial user namespace a call to open() on said device node will fail due to: bool may_open_dev(const struct path *path) { return !(path->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV) && !(path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_iflags & SB_I_NODEV); } The problem with this is that as of the aforementioned commit mknod() creates partially functional device nodes in non-initial user namespaces. In particular, it has the consequence that as of the aforementioned commit open() will be more privileged with respect to device nodes than mknod(). Before it was the other way around. Specifically, if mknod() succeeded then it was transparent for any userspace application that a fatal error must have occured when open() failed. All of this breaks multiple userspace workloads and a widespread assumption about how to handle mknod(). Basically, all container runtimes and systemd live by the slogan "ask for forgiveness not permission" when running user namespace workloads. For mknod() the assumption is that if the syscall succeeds the device nodes are useable irrespective of whether it succeeds in a non-initial user namespace or not. This logic was chosen explicitly to allow for the glorious day when mknod() will actually be able to create fully functional device nodes in user namespaces. A specific problem people are already running into when running 4.18 rc kernels are failing systemd services. For any distro that is run in a container systemd services started with the PrivateDevices= property set will fail to start since the device nodes in question cannot be opened (cf. the arguments in [1]). Full disclosure, Seth made the very sound argument that it is already possible to end up with partially functional device nodes. Any filesystem mounted with MS_NODEV set will allow mknod() to succeed but will not allow open() to succeed. The difference to the case here is that the MS_NODEV case is transparent to userspace since it is an explicitly set mount option while the SB_I_NODEV case is an implicit property enforced by the kernel and hence opaque to userspace. [1]: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/9483 Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-23namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular filesSalvatore Mesoraca1-3/+50
Disallows open of FIFOs or regular files not owned by the user in world writable sticky directories, unless the owner is the same as that of the directory or the file is opened without the O_CREAT flag. The purpose is to make data spoofing attacks harder. This protection can be turned on and off separately for FIFOs and regular files via sysctl, just like the symlinks/hardlinks protection. This patch is based on Openwall's "HARDEN_FIFO" feature by Solar Designer. This is a brief list of old vulnerabilities that could have been prevented by this feature, some of them even allow for privilege escalation: CVE-2000-1134 CVE-2007-3852 CVE-2008-0525 CVE-2009-0416 CVE-2011-4834 CVE-2015-1838 CVE-2015-7442 CVE-2016-7489 This list is not meant to be complete. It's difficult to track down all vulnerabilities of this kind because they were often reported without any mention of this particular attack vector. In fact, before hardlinks/symlinks restrictions, fifos/regular files weren't the favorite vehicle to exploit them. [s.mesoraca16@gmail.com: fix bug reported by Dan Carpenter] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180426081456.GA7060@mwanda Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1524829819-11275-1-git-send-email-s.mesoraca16@gmail.com [keescook@chromium.org: drop pr_warn_ratelimited() in favor of audit changes in the future] [keescook@chromium.org: adjust commit subjet] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180416175918.GA13494@beast Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com> Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-08-21Merge tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi: "This contains two new features: - Stack file operations: this allows removal of several hacks from the VFS, proper interaction of read-only open files with copy-up, possibility to implement fs modifying ioctls properly, and others. - Metadata only copy-up: when file is on lower layer and only metadata is modified (except size) then only copy up the metadata and continue to use the data from the lower file" * tag 'ovl-update-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (66 commits) ovl: Enable metadata only feature ovl: Do not do metacopy only for ioctl modifying file attr ovl: Do not do metadata only copy-up for truncate operation ovl: add helper to force data copy-up ovl: Check redirect on index as well ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked ovl: Set redirect on metacopy files upon rename ovl: Do not set dentry type ORIGIN for broken hardlinks ovl: Add an inode flag OVL_CONST_INO ovl: Treat metacopy dentries as type OVL_PATH_MERGE ovl: Check redirects for metacopy files ovl: Move some dir related ovl_lookup_single() code in else block ovl: Do not expose metacopy only dentry from d_real() ovl: Open file with data except for the case of fsync ovl: Add helper ovl_inode_realdata() ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode ovl: Fix ovl_getattr() to get number of blocks from lower ovl: Add helper ovl_dentry_lowerdata() to get lower data dentry ovl: Copy up meta inode data from lowest data inode ovl: Modify ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentry ...
2018-08-13Merge branches 'work.misc' and 'work.dcache' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-24/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Misc cleanups from various folks all over the place I expected more fs/dcache.c cleanups this cycle, so that went into a separate branch. Said cleanups have missed the window, so in the hindsight it could've gone into work.misc instead. Decided not to cherry-pick, thus the 'work.dcache' branch" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: dcache: Use true and false for boolean values fold generic_readlink() into its only caller fs: shave 8 bytes off of struct inode fs: Add more kernel-doc to the produced documentation fs: Fix attr.c kernel-doc removed extra extern file_fdatawait_range * 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: kill dentry_update_name_case()
2018-07-19fold generic_readlink() into its only callerAl Viro1-24/+12
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-18Revert "vfs: update ovl inode before relatime check"Miklos Szeredi1-1/+1
This reverts commit 598e3c8f72f5b77c84d2cb26cfd936ffb3cfdbaa. Overlayfs no longer relies on the vfs correct atime handling. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2018-07-12few more cleanups of link_path_walk() callersAl Viro1-19/+11
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12allow link_path_walk() to take ERR_PTR()Al Viro1-33/+5
There is a check for IS_ERR(name) immediately upstream of each call of link_path_walk(name, nd), with positives treated as if link_path_walk() failed with PTR_ERR(name). Taking that check into link_path_walk() itself simplifies things nicely. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12make path_init() unconditionally paired with terminate_walk()Al Viro1-16/+16
including the failure exits Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12switch atomic_open() and lookup_open() to returning 0 in all success casesAl Viro1-17/+17
caller can tell "opened" from "open it yourself" by looking at ->f_mode. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12->atomic_open(): return 0 in all success casesAl Viro1-15/+15
FMODE_OPENED can be used to distingusish "successful open" from the "called finish_no_open(), do it yourself" cases. Since finish_no_open() has been adjusted, no changes in the instances were actually needed. The caller has been adjusted. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12get rid of 'opened' in path_openat() and the helpers downstreamAl Viro1-14/+8
unused now Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12get rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() - part 3Al Viro1-2/+1
now it can be done... Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12getting rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() - part 1Al Viro1-1/+1
'opened' argument of finish_open() is unused. Kill it. Signed-off-by Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12IMA: don't propagate opened through the entire thingAl Viro1-2/+1
just check ->f_mode in ima_appraise_measurement() Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12introduce FMODE_CREATED and switch to itAl Viro1-7/+8
Parallel to FILE_CREATED, goes into ->f_mode instead of *opened. NFS is a bit of a wart here - it doesn't have file at the point where FILE_CREATED used to be set, so we need to propagate it there (for now). IMA is another one (here and everywhere)... Note that this needs do_dentry_open() to leave old bits in ->f_mode alone - we want it to preserve FMODE_CREATED if it had been already set (no other bit can be there). Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12switch all remaining checks for FILE_OPENED to FMODE_OPENEDAl Viro1-5/+2
... and don't bother with setting FILE_OPENED at all. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12now we can fold open_check_o_direct() into do_dentry_open()Al Viro1-6/+1
These checks are better off in do_dentry_open(); the reason we couldn't put them there used to be that callers couldn't tell what kind of cleanup would do_dentry_open() failure call for. Now that we have FMODE_OPENED, cleanup is the same in all cases - it's simply fput(). So let's fold that into do_dentry_open(), as Christoph's patch tried to. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12lift fput() on late failures into path_openat()Al Viro1-16/+12
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12fold put_filp() into fput()Al Viro1-2/+2
Just check FMODE_OPENED in __fput() and be done with that... Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12get rid of cred argument of vfs_open() and do_dentry_open()Al Viro1-2/+2
always equal to ->f_cred Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12pass ->f_flags value to alloc_empty_file()Al Viro1-3/+1
... and have it set the f_flags-derived part of ->f_mode. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-07-12pass creds to get_empty_filp(), make sure dentry_open() passes the right credsAl Viro1-1/+1
... and rename get_empty_filp() to alloc_empty_file(). dentry_open() gets creds as argument, but the only thing that sees those is security_file_open() - file->f_cred still ends up with current_cred(). For almost all callers it's the same thing, but there are several broken cases. Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-06-16Merge branch 'afs-proc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+29
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull AFS updates from Al Viro: "Assorted AFS stuff - ended up in vfs.git since most of that consists of David's AFS-related followups to Christoph's procfs series" * 'afs-proc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: afs: Optimise callback breaking by not repeating volume lookup afs: Display manually added cells in dynamic root mount afs: Enable IPv6 DNS lookups afs: Show all of a server's addresses in /proc/fs/afs/servers afs: Handle CONFIG_PROC_FS=n proc: Make inline name size calculation automatic afs: Implement network namespacing afs: Mark afs_net::ws_cell as __rcu and set using rcu functions afs: Fix a Sparse warning in xdr_decode_AFSFetchStatus() proc: Add a way to make network proc files writable afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c to remove remaining predeclarations. afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c to move the show routines up afs: Rearrange fs/afs/proc.c by moving fops and open functions down afs: Move /proc management functions to the end of the file
2018-06-15afs: Display manually added cells in dynamic root mountDavid Howells1-0/+29
Alter the dynroot mount so that cells created by manipulation of /proc/fs/afs/cells and /proc/fs/afs/rootcell and by specification of a root cell as a module parameter will cause directories for those cells to be created in the dynamic root superblock for the network namespace[*]. To this end: (1) Only one dynamic root superblock is now created per network namespace and this is shared between all attempts to mount it. This makes it easier to find the superblock to modify. (2) When a dynamic root superblock is created, the list of cells is walked and directories created for each cell already defined. (3) When a new cell is added, if a dynamic root superblock exists, a directory is created for it. (4) When a cell is destroyed, the directory is removed. (5) These directories are created by calling lookup_one_len() on the root dir which automatically creates them if they don't exist. [*] Inasmuch as network namespaces are currently supported here. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2018-06-12treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array()Kees Cook1-2/+2
The kmalloc() function has a 2-factor argument form, kmalloc_array(). This patch replaces cases of: kmalloc(a * b, gfp) with: kmalloc_array(a * b, gfp) as well as handling cases of: kmalloc(a * b * c, gfp) with: kmalloc(array3_size(a, b, c), gfp) as it's slightly less ugly than: kmalloc_array(array_size(a, b), c, gfp) This does, however, attempt to ignore constant size factors like: kmalloc(4 * 1024, gfp) though any constants defined via macros get caught up in the conversion. Any factors with a sizeof() of "unsigned char", "char", and "u8" were dropped, since they're redundant. The tools/ directory was manually excluded, since it has its own implementation of kmalloc(). The Coccinelle script used for this was: // Fix redundant parens around sizeof(). @@ type TYPE; expression THING, E; @@ ( kmalloc( - (sizeof(TYPE)) * E + sizeof(TYPE) * E , ...) | kmalloc( - (sizeof(THING)) * E + sizeof(THING) * E , ...) ) // Drop single-byte sizes and redundant parens. @@ expression COUNT; typedef u8; typedef __u8; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * (COUNT) + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(__u8) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(unsigned char) * COUNT + COUNT , ...) ) // 2-factor product with sizeof(type/expression) and identifier or constant. @@ type TYPE; expression THING; identifier COUNT_ID; constant COUNT_CONST; @@ ( - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_ID) + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_ID + COUNT_ID, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT_CONST) + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT_CONST + COUNT_CONST, sizeof(THING) , ...) ) // 2-factor product, only identifiers. @@ identifier SIZE, COUNT; @@ - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - SIZE * COUNT + COUNT, SIZE , ...) // 3-factor product with 1 sizeof(type) or sizeof(expression), with // redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING; identifier STRIDE, COUNT; type TYPE; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(TYPE)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * (COUNT) * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * (STRIDE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING) * COUNT * STRIDE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, sizeof(THING)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product with 2 sizeof(variable), with redundant parens removed. @@ expression THING1, THING2; identifier COUNT; type TYPE1, TYPE2; @@ ( kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(TYPE2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(TYPE2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(THING1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(THING1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * COUNT + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) | kmalloc( - sizeof(TYPE1) * sizeof(THING2) * (COUNT) + array3_size(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE1), sizeof(THING2)) , ...) ) // 3-factor product, only identifiers, with redundant parens removed. @@ identifier STRIDE, SIZE, COUNT; @@ ( kmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * STRIDE * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - (COUNT) * (STRIDE) * (SIZE) + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) | kmalloc( - COUNT * STRIDE * SIZE + array3_size(COUNT, STRIDE, SIZE) , ...) ) // Any remaining multi-factor products, first at least 3-factor products, // when they're not all constants... @@ expression E1, E2, E3; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * (E2) * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - (E1) * (E2) * (E3) + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) | kmalloc( - E1 * E2 * E3 + array3_size(E1, E2, E3) , ...) ) // And then all remaining 2 factors products when they're not all constants, // keeping sizeof() as the second factor argument. @@ expression THING, E1, E2; type TYPE; constant C1, C2, C3; @@ ( kmalloc(sizeof(THING) * C2, ...) | kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE) * C2, ...) | kmalloc(C1 * C2 * C3, ...) | kmalloc(C1 * C2, ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(TYPE) * E2 + E2, sizeof(TYPE) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * (E2) + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - sizeof(THING) * E2 + E2, sizeof(THING) , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - (E1) * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - (E1) * (E2) + E1, E2 , ...) | - kmalloc + kmalloc_array ( - E1 * E2 + E1, E2 , ...) ) Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
2018-06-04Merge branch 'userns-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+12
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace Pull userns updates from Eric Biederman: "This is the last couple of vfs bits to enable root in a user namespace to mount and manipulate a filesystem with backing store (AKA not a virtual filesystem like proc, but a filesystem where the unprivileged user controls the content). The target filesystem for this work is fuse, and Miklos should be sending you the pull request for the fuse bits this merge window. The two key patches are "evm: Don't update hmacs in user ns mounts" and "vfs: Don't allow changing the link count of an inode with an invalid uid or gid". Those close small gaps in the vfs that would be a problem if an unprivileged fuse filesystem is mounted. The rest of the changes are things that are now safe to allow a root user in a user namespace to do with a filesystem they have mounted. The most interesting development is that remount is now safe" * 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace: fs: Allow CAP_SYS_ADMIN in s_user_ns to freeze and thaw filesystems capabilities: Allow privileged user in s_user_ns to set security.* xattrs fs: Allow superblock owner to access do_remount_sb() fs: Allow superblock owner to replace invalid owners of inodes vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems. vfs: Don't allow changing the link count of an inode with an invalid uid or gid evm: Don't update hmacs in user ns mounts
2018-06-04Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-3/+1
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Misc bits and pieces not fitting into anything more specific" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: vfs: delete unnecessary assignment in vfs_listxattr Documentation: filesystems: update filesystem locking documentation vfs: namei: use path_equal() in follow_dotdot() fs.h: fix outdated comment about file flags __inode_security_revalidate() never gets NULL opt_dentry make xattr_getsecurity() static vfat: simplify checks in vfat_lookup() get rid of dead code in d_find_alias() it's SB_BORN, not MS_BORN... msdos_rmdir(): kill BS comment remove rpc_rmdir() fs: avoid fdput() after failed fdget() in vfs_dedupe_file_range()
2018-06-04Merge branch 'work.rmdir' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-4/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull rmdir update from Al Viro: "More shrink_dcache_parent()-related stuff - killing the main source of potentially contended calls of that on large subtrees" * 'work.rmdir' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: rmdir(),rename(): do shrink_dcache_parent() only on success
2018-06-03Revert "fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open"Al Viro1-1/+6
This reverts commit cab64df194667dc5d9d786f0a895f647f5501c0d. Having vfs_open() in some cases drop the reference to struct file combined with error = vfs_open(path, f, cred); if (error) { put_filp(f); return ERR_PTR(error); } return f; is flat-out wrong. It used to be error = vfs_open(path, f, cred); if (!error) { /* from now on we need fput() to dispose of f */ error = open_check_o_direct(f); if (error) { fput(f); f = ERR_PTR(error); } } else { put_filp(f); f = ERR_PTR(error); } and sure, having that open_check_o_direct() boilerplate gotten rid of is nice, but not that way... Worse, another call chain (via finish_open()) is FUBAR now wrt FILE_OPENED handling - in that case we get error returned, with file already hit by fput() *AND* FILE_OPENED not set. Guess what happens in path_openat(), when it hits if (!(opened & FILE_OPENED)) { BUG_ON(!error); put_filp(file); } The root cause of all that crap is that the callers of do_dentry_open() have no way to tell which way did it fail; while that could be fixed up (by passing something like int *opened to do_dentry_open() and have it marked if we'd called ->open()), it's probably much too late in the cycle to do so right now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-05-27rmdir(),rename(): do shrink_dcache_parent() only on successAl Viro1-4/+4
Once upon a time ->rmdir() instances used to check if victim inode had more than one (in-core) reference and failed with -EBUSY if it had. The reason was race avoidance - emptiness check is worthless if somebody could just go and create new objects in the victim directory afterwards. With introduction of dcache the checks had been replaced with checking the refcount of dentry. However, since a cached negative lookup leaves a negative child dentry, such check had lead to false positives - with empty foo/ doing stat foo/bar before rmdir foo ended up with -EBUSY unless the negative dentry of foo/bar happened to be evicted by the time of rmdir(2). That had been fixed by doing shrink_dcache_parent() just before the refcount check. At the same time, ext2_rmdir() has grown a private solution that eliminated those -EBUSY - it did something (setting ->i_size to 0) which made any subsequent ext2_add_entry() fail. Unfortunately, even with shrink_dcache_parent() the check had been racy - after all, the victim itself could be found by dcache lookup just after we'd checked its refcount. That got fixed by a new helper (dentry_unhash()) that did shrink_dcache_parent() and unhashed the sucker if its refcount ended up equal to 1. That got called before ->rmdir(), turning the checks in ->rmdir() instances into "if not unhashed fail with -EBUSY". Which reduced the boilerplate nicely, but had an unpleasant side effect - now shrink_dcache_parent() had been done before the emptiness checks, leading to easily triggerable calls of shrink_dcache_parent() on arbitrary large subtrees, quite possibly nested into each other. Several years later the ext2-private trick had been generalized - (in-core) inodes of dead directories are flagged and calls of lookup, readdir and all directory-modifying methods were prevented in so marked directories. Remaining boilerplate in ->rmdir() instances became redundant and some instances got rid of it. In 2011 the call of dentry_unhash() got shifted into ->rmdir() instances and then killed off in all of them. That has lead to another problem, though - in case of successful rmdir we *want* any (negative) child dentries dropped and the victim itself made negative. There's no point keeping cached negative lookups in foo when we can get the negative lookup of foo itself cached. So shrink_dcache_parent() call had been restored; unfortunately, it went into the place where dentry_unhash() used to be, i.e. before the ->rmdir() call. Note that we don't unhash anymore, so any "is it busy" checks would be racy; fortunately, all of them are gone. We should've done that call right *after* successful ->rmdir(). That reduces contention caused by tree-walking in shrink_dcache_parent() and, especially, contention caused by evictions in two nested subtrees going on in parallel. The same goes for directory-overwriting rename() - the story there had been parallel to that of rmdir(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-05-24vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems.Eric W. Biederman1-1/+2
These filesystems already always set SB_I_NODEV so mknod will not be useful for gaining control of any devices no matter their permissions. This will allow overlayfs and applications like to fakeroot to use device nodes to represent things on disk. Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-05-24vfs: Don't allow changing the link count of an inode with an invalid uid or gidEric W. Biederman1-3/+10
Changing the link count of an inode via unlink or link will cause a write back of that inode. If the uids or gids are invalid (aka not known to the kernel) writing the inode back may change the uid or gid in the filesystem. To prevent possible filesystem and to avoid the need for filesystem maintainers to worry about it don't allow operations on inodes with an invalid uid or gid. Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2018-05-17vfs: namei: use path_equal() in follow_dotdot()Danilo Krummrich1-3/+1
Use path_equal() to detect whether we're already in root. Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <danilokrummrich@dk-develop.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-04-09Merge branch 'work.namei' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-67/+57
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs namei updates from Al Viro: - make lookup_one_len() safe with parent locked only shared(incoming afs series wants that) - fix of getname_kernel() regression from 2015 (-stable fodder, that one). * 'work.namei' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: getname_kernel() needs to make sure that ->name != ->iname in long case make lookup_one_len() safe to use with directory locked shared new helper: __lookup_slow() merge common parts of lookup_one_len{,_unlocked} into common helper
2018-04-08getname_kernel() needs to make sure that ->name != ->iname in long caseAl Viro1-1/+2
missed it in "kill struct filename.separate" several years ago. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-04-06Merge tag 'audit-pr-20180403' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-2/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit Pull audit updates from Paul Moore: "We didn't have anything to send for v4.16, but we're back with a little more than usual for v4.17. Eleven patches in total, most fall into the small fix category, but there are three non-trivial changes worth calling out: - the audit entry filter is being removed after deprecating it for quite a while (years of no one really using it because it turns out to be not very practical) - created our own version of "__mutex_owner()" because the locking folks were upset we were using theirs - improved our handling of kernel command line parameters to make them more forgiving - we fixed auditing of symlink operations Everything passes the audit-testsuite and as of a few minutes ago it merges well with your tree" * tag 'audit-pr-20180403' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: audit: add refused symlink to audit_names audit: remove path param from link denied function audit: link denied should not directly generate PATH record audit: make ANOM_LINK obey audit_enabled and audit_dummy_context audit: do not panic on invalid boot parameter audit: track the owner of the command mutex ourselves audit: return on memory error to avoid null pointer dereference audit: bail before bug check if audit disabled audit: deprecate the AUDIT_FILTER_ENTRY filter audit: session ID should not set arch quick field pointer audit: update bugtracker and source URIs
2018-04-06make lookup_one_len() safe to use with directory locked sharedAl Viro1-1/+3
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-04-06new helper: __lookup_slow()Al Viro1-9/+18
lookup_slow() sans locking/unlocking the directory Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-04-06merge common parts of lookup_one_len{,_unlocked} into common helperAl Viro1-56/+34
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2018-04-06Merge branch 'work.misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-6/+3
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff, including Christoph's I_DIRTY patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs: move I_DIRTY_INODE to fs.h ubifs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call ntfs: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) call gfs2: fix bogus __mark_inode_dirty(I_DIRTY_SYNC | I_DIRTY_DATASYNC) calls fs: fold open_check_o_direct into do_dentry_open vfs: Replace stray non-ASCII homoglyph characters with their ASCII equivalents vfs: make sure struct filename->iname is word-aligned get rid of pointless includes of fs_struct.h [poll] annotate SAA6588_CMD_POLL users
2018-04-04Merge branch 'work.dcache' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-24/+17
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs dcache updates from Al Viro: "Part of this is what the trylock loop elimination series has turned into, part making d_move() preserve the parent (and thus the path) of victim, plus some general cleanups" * 'work.dcache' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (22 commits) d_genocide: move export to definition fold dentry_lock_for_move() into its sole caller and clean it up make non-exchanging __d_move() copy ->d_parent rather than swap them oprofilefs: don't oops on allocation failure lustre: get rid of pointless casts to struct dentry * debugfs_lookup(): switch to lookup_one_len_unlocked() fold lookup_real() into __lookup_hash() take out orphan externs (empty_string/slash_string) split d_path() and friends into a separate file dcache.c: trim includes fs/dcache: Avoid a try_lock loop in shrink_dentry_list() get rid of trylock loop around dentry_kill() handle move to LRU in retain_dentry() dput(): consolidate the "do we need to retain it?" into an inlined helper split the slow part of lock_parent() off now lock_parent() can't run into killed dentry get rid of trylock loop in locking dentries on shrink list d_delete(): get rid of trylock loop fs/dcache: Move dentry_kill() below lock_parent() fs/dcache: Remove stale comment from dentry_kill() ...
2018-04-02Merge branch 'syscalls-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-16/+45
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux Pull removal of in-kernel calls to syscalls from Dominik Brodowski: "System calls are interaction points between userspace and the kernel. Therefore, system call functions such as sys_xyzzy() or compat_sys_xyzzy() should only be called from userspace via the syscall table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel. At least on 64-bit x86, it will likely be a hard requirement from v4.17 onwards to not call system call functions in the kernel: It is better to use use a different calling convention for system calls there, where struct pt_regs is decoded on-the-fly in a syscall wrapper which then hands processing over to the actual syscall function. This means that only those parameters which are actually needed for a specific syscall are passed on during syscall entry, instead of filling in six CPU registers with random user space content all the time (which may cause serious trouble down the call chain). Those x86-specific patches will be pushed through the x86 tree in the near future. Moreover, rules on how data may be accessed may differ between kernel data and user data. This is another reason why calling sys_xyzzy() is generally a bad idea, and -- at most -- acceptable in arch-specific code. This patchset removes all in-kernel calls to syscall functions in the kernel with the exception of arch/. On top of this, it cleans up the three places where many syscalls are referenced or prototyped, namely kernel/sys_ni.c, include/linux/syscalls.h and include/linux/compat.h" * 'syscalls-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux: (109 commits) bpf: whitelist all syscalls for error injection kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions kernel/sys_ni: sort cond_syscall() entries syscalls/x86: auto-create compat_sys_*() prototypes syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/compat.h net: remove compat_sys_*() prototypes from net/compat.h syscalls: sort syscall prototypes in include/linux/syscalls.h kexec: move sys_kexec_load() prototype to syscalls.h x86/sigreturn: use SYSCALL_DEFINE0 x86: fix sys_sigreturn() return type to be long, not unsigned long x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm() mm: add ksys_readahead() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_readahead() mm: add ksys_mmap_pgoff() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_mmap_pgoff() mm: add ksys_fadvise64_64() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_fadvise64_64() fs: add ksys_fallocate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_fallocate() fs: add ksys_p{read,write}64() helpers; remove in-kernel calls to syscalls fs: add ksys_truncate() wrapper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_truncate() fs: add ksys_sync_file_range helper(); remove in-kernel calls to syscall kernel: add ksys_setsid() helper; remove in-kernel call to sys_setsid() kernel: add ksys_unshare() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_unshare() ...