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2023-07-19watch_queue: prevent dangling pipe pointerSiddh Raman Pant
commit 943211c87427f25bd22e0e63849fb486bb5f87fa upstream. NULL the dangling pipe reference while clearing watch_queue. If not done, a reference to a freed pipe remains in the watch_queue, as this function is called before freeing a pipe in free_pipe_info() (see line 834 of fs/pipe.c). The sole use of wqueue->defunct is for checking if the watch queue has been cleared, but wqueue->pipe is also NULLed while clearing. Thus, wqueue->defunct is superfluous, as wqueue->pipe can be checked for NULL. Hence, the former can be removed. Tested with keyutils testsuite. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.1 Signed-off-by: Siddh Raman Pant <code@siddh.me> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20230605143616.640517-1-code@siddh.me> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-03-17watch_queue: fix IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE alloc error pathsDavid Disseldorp
[ Upstream commit 03e1d60e177eedbd302b77af4ea5e21b5a7ade31 ] The watch_queue_set_size() allocation error paths return the ret value set via the prior pipe_resize_ring() call, which will always be zero. As a result, IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE callers such as "keyctl watch" fail to detect kernel wqueue->notes allocation failures and proceed to KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY, with any notifications subsequently lost. Fixes: c73be61cede58 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: David Disseldorp <ddiss@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2022-08-02Merge tag 'docs-6.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This was a moderately busy cycle for documentation, but nothing all that earth-shaking: - More Chinese translations, and an update to the Italian translations. The Japanese, Korean, and traditional Chinese translations are more-or-less unmaintained at this point, instead. - Some build-system performance improvements. - The removal of the archaic submitting-drivers.rst document, with the movement of what useful material that remained into other docs. - Improvements to sphinx-pre-install to, hopefully, give more useful suggestions. - A number of build-warning fixes Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, updates, and more" * tag 'docs-6.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (92 commits) docs: efi-stub: Fix paths for x86 / arm stubs Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of sched-stats to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of pci to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of pci-iov-howto to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of usage to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of testing-overview to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of sparse to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of kasan to 5.19-rc8 Docs/zh_CN: Update the translation of iio_configfs to 5.19-rc8 doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation docs: Remove spurious tag from admin-guide/mm/overcommit-accounting.rst Documentation: process: Update email client instructions for Thunderbird docs: ABI: correct QEMU fw_cfg spec path doc/zh_CN: remove submitting-driver reference from docs docs: zh_TW: align to submitting-drivers removal docs: zh_CN: align to submitting-drivers removal docs: ko_KR: howto: remove reference to removed submitting-drivers docs: ja_JP: howto: remove reference to removed submitting-drivers docs: it_IT: align to submitting-drivers removal docs: process: remove outdated submitting-drivers.rst ...
2022-07-28watch_queue: Fix missing locking in add_watch_to_object()Linus Torvalds
If a watch is being added to a queue, it needs to guard against interference from addition of a new watch, manual removal of a watch and removal of a watch due to some other queue being destroyed. KEYCTL_WATCH_KEY guards against this for the same {key,queue} pair by holding the key->sem writelocked and by holding refs on both the key and the queue - but that doesn't prevent interaction from other {key,queue} pairs. While add_watch_to_object() does take the spinlock on the event queue, it doesn't take the lock on the source's watch list. The assumption was that the caller would prevent that (say by taking key->sem) - but that doesn't prevent interference from the destruction of another queue. Fix this by locking the watcher list in add_watch_to_object(). Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: syzbot+03d7b43290037d1f87ca@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: keyrings@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-28watch_queue: Fix missing rcu annotationDavid Howells
Since __post_watch_notification() walks wlist->watchers with only the RCU read lock held, we need to use RCU methods to add to the list (we already use RCU methods to remove from the list). Fix add_watch_to_object() to use hlist_add_head_rcu() instead of hlist_add_head() for that list. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-21watch-queue: remove spurious double semicolonLinus Torvalds
Sedat Dilek noticed that I had an extraneous semicolon at the end of a line in the previous patch. It's harmless, but unintentional, and while compilers just treat it as an extra empty statement, for all I know some other tooling might warn about it. So clean it up before other people notice too ;) Fixes: 353f7988dd84 ("watchqueue: make sure to serialize 'wqueue->defunct' properly") Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
2022-07-20watchqueue: make sure to serialize 'wqueue->defunct' properlyLinus Torvalds
When the pipe is closed, we mark the associated watchqueue defunct by calling watch_queue_clear(). However, while that is protected by the watchqueue lock, new watchqueue entries aren't actually added under that lock at all: they use the pipe->rd_wait.lock instead, and looking up that pipe happens without any locking. The watchqueue code uses the RCU read-side section to make sure that the wqueue entry itself hasn't disappeared, but that does not protect the pipe_info in any way. So make sure to actually hold the wqueue lock when posting watch events, properly serializing against the pipe being torn down. Reported-by: Noam Rathaus <noamr@ssd-disclosure.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-07-07Documentation: update watch_queue.rst referencesMauro Carvalho Chehab
Changeset f5461124d59b ("Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api") renamed: Documentation/watch_queue.rst to: Documentation/core-api/watch_queue.rst. Update the cross-references accordingly. Fixes: f5461124d59b ("Documentation: move watch_queue to core-api") Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c220de9c58f35e815a3df9458ac2bea323c8bfb.1656234456.git.mchehab@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-04-02watch_queue: Free the page array when watch_queue is dismantledEric Dumazet
Commit 7ea1a0124b6d ("watch_queue: Free the alloc bitmap when the watch_queue is torn down") took care of the bitmap, but not the page array. BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810d9bc140 (size 32): comm "syz-executor335", pid 3603, jiffies 4294946994 (age 12.840s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): 40 a7 40 04 00 ea ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 @.@............. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: kmalloc_array include/linux/slab.h:621 [inline] kcalloc include/linux/slab.h:652 [inline] watch_queue_set_size+0x12f/0x2e0 kernel/watch_queue.c:251 pipe_ioctl+0x82/0x140 fs/pipe.c:632 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0xfc/0x140 fs/ioctl.c:860 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] Reported-by: syzbot+25ea042ae28f3888727a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220322004654.618274-1-eric.dumazet@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-21watch_queue: Actually free the watchDavid Howells
free_watch() does everything barring actually freeing the watch object. Fix this by adding the missing kfree. kmemleak produces a report something like the following. Note that as an address can be seen in the first word, the watch would appear to have gone through call_rcu(). BUG: memory leak unreferenced object 0xffff88810ce4a200 (size 96): comm "syz-executor352", pid 3605, jiffies 4294947473 (age 13.720s) hex dump (first 32 bytes): e0 82 48 0d 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..H............. 80 a2 e4 0c 81 88 ff ff 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ................ backtrace: [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:581 [inline] [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] kzalloc include/linux/slab.h:714 [inline] [<ffffffff8214e6cc>] keyctl_watch_key+0xec/0x2e0 security/keys/keyctl.c:1800 [<ffffffff8214ec84>] __do_sys_keyctl+0x3c4/0x490 security/keys/keyctl.c:2016 [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] [<ffffffff84493a25>] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 [<ffffffff84600068>] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+6e2de48f06cdb2884bfc@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2022-03-21watch_queue: Fix NULL dereference in error cleanupDavid Howells
In watch_queue_set_size(), the error cleanup code doesn't take account of the fact that __free_page() can't handle a NULL pointer when trying to free up buffer pages that did get allocated. Fix this by only calling __free_page() on the pages actually allocated. Without the fix, this can lead to something like the following: BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 Read of size 4 at addr 0000000000000034 by task syz-executor168/3599 ... Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0xcd/0x134 lib/dump_stack.c:106 __kasan_report mm/kasan/report.c:446 [inline] kasan_report.cold+0x66/0xdf mm/kasan/report.c:459 check_region_inline mm/kasan/generic.c:183 [inline] kasan_check_range+0x13d/0x180 mm/kasan/generic.c:189 instrument_atomic_read include/linux/instrumented.h:71 [inline] atomic_read include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:27 [inline] page_ref_count include/linux/page_ref.h:67 [inline] put_page_testzero include/linux/mm.h:717 [inline] __free_pages+0x1f/0x1b0 mm/page_alloc.c:5473 watch_queue_set_size+0x499/0x630 kernel/watch_queue.c:275 pipe_ioctl+0xac/0x2b0 fs/pipe.c:632 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline] __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:874 [inline] __se_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:860 [inline] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x193/0x200 fs/ioctl.c:860 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:50 [inline] do_syscall_64+0x35/0xb0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:80 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-and-tested-by: syzbot+d55757faa9b80590767b@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Make comment about setting ->defunct more accurateDavid Howells
watch_queue_clear() has a comment stating that setting ->defunct to true preventing new additions as well as preventing notifications. Whilst the latter is true, the first bit is superfluous since at the time this function is called, the pipe cannot be accessed to add new event sources. Remove the "new additions" bit from the comment. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix lack of barrier/sync/lock between post and readDavid Howells
There's nothing to synchronise post_one_notification() versus pipe_read(). Whilst posting is done under pipe->rd_wait.lock, the reader only takes pipe->mutex which cannot bar notification posting as that may need to be made from contexts that cannot sleep. Fix this by setting pipe->head with a barrier in post_one_notification() and reading pipe->head with a barrier in pipe_read(). If that's not sufficient, the rd_wait.lock will need to be taken, possibly in a ->confirm() op so that it only applies to notifications. The lock would, however, have to be dropped before copy_page_to_iter() is invoked. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Free the alloc bitmap when the watch_queue is torn downDavid Howells
Free the watch_queue note allocation bitmap when the watch_queue is destroyed. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix the alloc bitmap size to reflect notes allocatedDavid Howells
Currently, watch_queue_set_size() sets the number of notes available in wqueue->nr_notes according to the number of notes allocated, but sets the size of the bitmap to the unrounded number of notes originally asked for. Fix this by setting the bitmap size to the number of notes we're actually going to make available (ie. the number allocated). Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Use the bitmap API when applicableChristophe JAILLET
Use bitmap_alloc() to simplify code, improve the semantic and reduce some open-coded arithmetic in allocator arguments. Also change a memset(0xff) into an equivalent bitmap_fill() to keep consistency. Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix to always request a pow-of-2 pipe ring sizeDavid Howells
The pipe ring size must always be a power of 2 as the head and tail pointers are masked off by AND'ing with the size of the ring - 1. watch_queue_set_size(), however, lets you specify any number of notes between 1 and 511. This number is passed through to pipe_resize_ring() without checking/forcing its alignment. Fix this by rounding the number of slots required up to the nearest power of two. The request is meant to guarantee that at least that many notifications can be generated before the queue is full, so rounding down isn't an option, but, alternatively, it may be better to give an error if we aren't allowed to allocate that much ring space. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix to release page in ->release()David Howells
When a pipe ring descriptor points to a notification message, the refcount on the backing page is incremented by the generic get function, but the release function, which marks the bitmap, doesn't drop the page ref. Fix this by calling generic_pipe_buf_release() at the end of watch_queue_pipe_buf_release(). Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-11watch_queue: Fix filter limit checkDavid Howells
In watch_queue_set_filter(), there are a couple of places where we check that the filter type value does not exceed what the type_filter bitmap can hold. One place calculates the number of bits by: if (tf[i].type >= sizeof(wfilter->type_filter) * 8) which is fine, but the second does: if (tf[i].type >= sizeof(wfilter->type_filter) * BITS_PER_LONG) which is not. This can lead to a couple of out-of-bounds writes due to a too-large type: (1) __set_bit() on wfilter->type_filter (2) Writing more elements in wfilter->filters[] than we allocated. Fix this by just using the proper WATCH_TYPE__NR instead, which is the number of types we actually know about. The bug may cause an oops looking something like: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740 Write of size 4 at addr ffff88800d2c66bc by task watch_queue_oob/611 ... Call Trace: <TASK> dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x1f/0x150 ... kasan_report.cold+0x7f/0x11b ... watch_queue_set_filter+0x659/0x740 ... __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae Allocated by task 611: kasan_save_stack+0x1e/0x40 __kasan_kmalloc+0x81/0xa0 watch_queue_set_filter+0x23a/0x740 __x64_sys_ioctl+0x127/0x190 do_syscall_64+0x43/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88800d2c66a0 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-32 of size 32 The buggy address is located 28 bytes inside of 32-byte region [ffff88800d2c66a0, ffff88800d2c66c0) Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2021-01-26watch_queue: rectify kernel-doc for init_watch()Lukas Bulwahn
The command './scripts/kernel-doc -none kernel/watch_queue.c' reported a mismatch in the kernel-doc of init_watch(). Rectify the kernel-doc, such that no issues remain for watch_queue.c. Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-08-17watch_queue: Limit the number of watches a user can holdDavid Howells
Impose a limit on the number of watches that a user can hold so that they can't use this mechanism to fill up all the available memory. This is done by putting a counter in user_struct that's incremented when a watch is allocated and decreased when it is released. If the number exceeds the RLIMIT_NOFILE limit, the watch is rejected with EAGAIN. This can be tested by the following means: (1) Create a watch queue and attach it to fd 5 in the program given - in this case, bash: keyctl watch_session /tmp/nlog /tmp/gclog 5 bash (2) In the shell, set the maximum number of files to, say, 99: ulimit -n 99 (3) Add 200 keyrings: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl newring a$i @s || break; done (4) Try to watch all of the keyrings: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do echo $i; keyctl watch_add 5 %:a$i || break; done This should fail when the number of watches belonging to the user hits 99. (5) Remove all the keyrings and all of those watches should go away: for ((i=0; i<200; i++)); do keyctl unlink %:a$i; done (6) Kill off the watch queue by exiting the shell spawned by watch_session. Fixes: c73be61cede5 ("pipe: Add general notification queue support") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-13Merge tag 'notifications-20200601' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs Pull notification queue from David Howells: "This adds a general notification queue concept and adds an event source for keys/keyrings, such as linking and unlinking keys and changing their attributes. Thanks to Debarshi Ray, we do have a pull request to use this to fix a problem with gnome-online-accounts - as mentioned last time: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-online-accounts/merge_requests/47 Without this, g-o-a has to constantly poll a keyring-based kerberos cache to find out if kinit has changed anything. [ There are other notification pending: mount/sb fsinfo notifications for libmount that Karel Zak and Ian Kent have been working on, and Christian Brauner would like to use them in lxc, but let's see how this one works first ] LSM hooks are included: - A set of hooks are provided that allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a watch may be set. Each of these hooks takes a different "watched object" parameter, so they're not really shareable. The LSM should use current's credentials. [Wanted by SELinux & Smack] - A hook is provided to allow an LSM to rule on whether or not a particular message may be posted to a particular queue. This is given the credentials from the event generator (which may be the system) and the watch setter. [Wanted by Smack] I've provided SELinux and Smack with implementations of some of these hooks. WHY === Key/keyring notifications are desirable because if you have your kerberos tickets in a file/directory, your Gnome desktop will monitor that using something like fanotify and tell you if your credentials cache changes. However, we also have the ability to cache your kerberos tickets in the session, user or persistent keyring so that it isn't left around on disk across a reboot or logout. Keyrings, however, cannot currently be monitored asynchronously, so the desktop has to poll for it - not so good on a laptop. This facility will allow the desktop to avoid the need to poll. DESIGN DECISIONS ================ - The notification queue is built on top of a standard pipe. Messages are effectively spliced in. The pipe is opened with a special flag: pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE); The special flag has the same value as O_EXCL (which doesn't seem like it will ever be applicable in this context)[?]. It is given up front to make it a lot easier to prohibit splice&co from accessing the pipe. [?] Should this be done some other way? I'd rather not use up a new O_* flag if I can avoid it - should I add a pipe3() system call instead? The pipe is then configured:: ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth); ioctl(fds[1], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_FILTER, &filter); Messages are then read out of the pipe using read(). - It should be possible to allow write() to insert data into the notification pipes too, but this is currently disabled as the kernel has to be able to insert messages into the pipe *without* holding pipe->mutex and the code to make this work needs careful auditing. - sendfile(), splice() and vmsplice() are disabled on notification pipes because of the pipe->mutex issue and also because they sometimes want to revert what they just did - but one or more notification messages might've been interleaved in the ring. - The kernel inserts messages with the wait queue spinlock held. This means that pipe_read() and pipe_write() have to take the spinlock to update the queue pointers. - Records in the buffer are binary, typed and have a length so that they can be of varying size. This allows multiple heterogeneous sources to share a common buffer; there are 16 million types available, of which I've used just a few, so there is scope for others to be used. Tags may be specified when a watchpoint is created to help distinguish the sources. - Records are filterable as types have up to 256 subtypes that can be individually filtered. Other filtration is also available. - Notification pipes don't interfere with each other; each may be bound to a different set of watches. Any particular notification will be copied to all the queues that are currently watching for it - and only those that are watching for it. - When recording a notification, the kernel will not sleep, but will rather mark a queue as having lost a message if there's insufficient space. read() will fabricate a loss notification message at an appropriate point later. - The notification pipe is created and then watchpoints are attached to it, using one of: keyctl_watch_key(KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING, fds[1], 0x01); watch_mount(AT_FDCWD, "/", 0, fd, 0x02); watch_sb(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", 0, fd, 0x03); where in both cases, fd indicates the queue and the number after is a tag between 0 and 255. - Watches are removed if either the notification pipe is destroyed or the watched object is destroyed. In the latter case, a message will be generated indicating the enforced watch removal. Things I want to avoid: - Introducing features that make the core VFS dependent on the network stack or networking namespaces (ie. usage of netlink). - Dumping all this stuff into dmesg and having a daemon that sits there parsing the output and distributing it as this then puts the responsibility for security into userspace and makes handling namespaces tricky. Further, dmesg might not exist or might be inaccessible inside a container. - Letting users see events they shouldn't be able to see. TESTING AND MANPAGES ==================== - The keyutils tree has a pipe-watch branch that has keyctl commands for making use of notifications. Proposed manual pages can also be found on this branch, though a couple of them really need to go to the main manpages repository instead. If the kernel supports the watching of keys, then running "make test" on that branch will cause the testing infrastructure to spawn a monitoring process on the side that monitors a notifications pipe for all the key/keyring changes induced by the tests and they'll all be checked off to make sure they happened. https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/keyutils.git/log/?h=pipe-watch - A test program is provided (samples/watch_queue/watch_test) that can be used to monitor for keyrings, mount and superblock events. Information on the notifications is simply logged to stdout" * tag 'notifications-20200601' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: smack: Implement the watch_key and post_notification hooks selinux: Implement the watch_key security hook keys: Make the KEY_NEED_* perms an enum rather than a mask pipe: Add notification lossage handling pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notifications Add sample notification program watch_queue: Add a key/keyring notification facility security: Add hooks to rule on setting a watch pipe: Add general notification queue support pipe: Add O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE security: Add a hook for the point of notification insertion uapi: General notification queue definitions
2020-05-19pipe: Add notification lossage handlingDavid Howells
Add handling for loss of notifications by having read() insert a loss-notification message after it has read the pipe buffer that was last in the ring when the loss occurred. Lossage can come about either by running out of notification descriptors or by running out of space in the pipe ring. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19pipe: Allow buffers to be marked read-whole-or-error for notificationsDavid Howells
Allow a buffer to be marked such that read() must return the entire buffer in one go or return ENOBUFS. Multiple buffers can be amalgamated into a single read, but a short read will occur if the next "whole" buffer won't fit. This is useful for watch queue notifications to make sure we don't split a notification across multiple reads, especially given that we need to fabricate an overrun record under some circumstances - and that isn't in the buffers. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-05-19pipe: Add general notification queue supportDavid Howells
Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a standard pipe. Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read out. splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex. This means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect. The way the notification queue is used is: (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can only be set once): pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE); ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth); (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data from the pipe. read() will return multiple notifications if the buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE. Notification messages include a length in the header so that the caller can split them up. Each message has a header that describes it: struct watch_notification { __u32 type:24; __u32 subtype:8; __u32 info; }; The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events, keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink). The info field indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags. Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be attached in additional slots. The maximum message size is 127 bytes. Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>