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2020-03-13atomic_open(): return the right dentry in FMODE_OPENED caseAl Viro
->atomic_open() might have used a different alias than the one we'd passed to it; in "not opened" case we take care of that, in "opened" one we don't. Currently we don't care downstream of "opened" case which alias to return; however, that will change shortly when we get to unifying may_open() calls. It's not hard to get right in all cases, anyway. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13new helper: traverse_mounts()Al Viro
common guts of follow_down() and follow_managed() taken to a new helper - traverse_mounts(). The remnants of follow_managed() are folded into its sole remaining caller (handle_mounts()). Calling conventions of handle_mounts() slightly sanitized - instead of the weird "1 for success, -E... for failure" that used to be imposed by the calling conventions of walk_component() et.al. we can use the normal "0 for success, -E... for failure". Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13massage __follow_mount_rcu() a bitAl Viro
make the loop more similar to that in follow_managed(), with explicit tracking of flags, etc. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13namei: have link_path_walk() maintain LOOKUP_PARENTAl Viro
set on entry, clear when we get to the last component. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13link_path_walk(): simplify stack handlingAl Viro
We use nd->stack to store two things: pinning down the symlinks we are resolving and resuming the name traversal when a nested symlink is finished. Currently, nd->depth is used to keep track of both. It's 0 when we call link_path_walk() for the first time (for the pathname itself) and 1 on all subsequent calls (for trailing symlinks, if any). That's fine, as far as pinning symlinks goes - when handling a trailing symlink, the string we are interpreting is the body of symlink pinned down in nd->stack[0]. It's rather inconvenient with respect to handling nested symlinks, though - when we run out of a string we are currently interpreting, we need to decide whether it's a nested symlink (in which case we need to pick the string saved back when we started to interpret that nested symlink and resume its traversal) or not (in which case we are done with link_path_walk()). Current solution is a bit of a kludge - in handling of trailing symlink (in lookup_last() and open_last_lookups() we clear nd->stack[0].name. That allows link_path_walk() to use the following rules when running out of a string to interpret: * if nd->depth is zero, we are at the end of pathname itself. * if nd->depth is positive, check the saved string; for nested symlink it will be non-NULL, for trailing symlink - NULL. It works, but it's rather non-obvious. Note that we have two sets: the set of symlinks currently being traversed and the set of postponed pathname tails. The former is stored in nd->stack[0..nd->depth-1].link and it's valid throught the pathname resolution; the latter is valid only during an individual call of link_path_walk() and it occupies nd->stack[0..nd->depth-1].name for the first call of link_path_walk() and nd->stack[1..nd->depth-1].name for subsequent ones. The kludge is basically a way to recognize the second set becoming empty. The things get simpler if we keep track of the second set's size explicitly and always store it in nd->stack[0..depth-1].name. We access the second set only inside link_path_walk(), so its size can live in a local variable; that way the check becomes trivial without the need of that kludge. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13pick_link(): check for WALK_TRAILING, not LOOKUP_PARENTAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13namei: invert the meaning of WALK_FOLLOWAl Viro
old flags & WALK_FOLLOW <=> new !(flags & WALK_TRAILING) That's what that flag had really been used for. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13sanitize handling of nd->last_type, kill LAST_BINDAl Viro
->last_type values are set in 3 places: path_init() (sets to LAST_ROOT), link_path_walk (LAST_NORM/DOT/DOTDOT) and pick_link (LAST_BIND). The are checked in walk_component(), lookup_last() and do_last(). They also get copied to the caller by filename_parentat(). In the last 3 cases the value is what we had at the return from link_path_walk(). In case of walk_component() it's either directly downstream from assignment in link_path_walk() or, when called by lookup_last(), the value we have at the return from link_path_walk(). The value at the entry into link_path_walk() can survive to return only if the pathname contains nothing but slashes. Note that pick_link() never returns such - pure jumps are handled directly. So for the calls of link_path_walk() for trailing symlinks it does not matter what value had been there at the entry; the value at the return won't depend upon it. There are 3 call chains that might have pick_link() storing LAST_BIND: 1) pick_link() from step_into() from walk_component() from link_path_walk(). In that case we will either be parsing the next component immediately after return into link_path_walk(), which will overwrite the ->last_type before anyone has a chance to look at it, or we'll fail, in which case nobody will be looking at ->last_type at all. 2) pick_link() from step_into() from walk_component() from lookup_last(). The value is never looked at due to the above; it won't affect the value seen at return from any link_path_walk(). 3) pick_link() from step_into() from do_last(). Ditto. In other words, assignemnt in pick_link() is pointless, and so is LAST_BIND itself; nothing ever looks at that value. Kill it off. And make link_path_walk() _always_ assign ->last_type - in the only case when the value at the entry might survive to the return that value is always LAST_ROOT, inherited from path_init(). Move that assignment from path_init() into the beginning of link_path_walk(), to consolidate the things. Historical note: LAST_BIND used to be used for the kludge with trailing pure jump symlinks (extra iteration through the top-level loop). No point keeping it anymore... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13finally fold get_link() into pick_link()Al Viro
kill nd->link_inode, while we are at it Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 6Al Viro
move the only remaining call of get_link() into pick_link() Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 5Al Viro
move get_link() call into step_into(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 4Al Viro
Move the call of get_link() into walk_component(). Change the calling conventions for walk_component() to returning the link body to follow (if any). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 3Al Viro
After a pure jump ("/" or procfs-style symlink) we don't need to hold the link anymore. link_path_walk() dropped it if such case had been detected, lookup_last/do_last() (i.e. old trailing_symlink()) left it on the stack - it ended up calling terminate_walk() shortly anyway, which would've purged the entire stack. Do it in get_link() itself instead. Simpler logics that way... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 2Al Viro
Fold trailing_symlink() into lookup_last() and do_last(), change the calling conventions of those two. Rules change: success, we are done => NULL instead of 0 error => ERR_PTR(-E...) instead of -E... got a symlink to follow => return the path to be followed instead of 1 The loops calling those (in path_lookupat() and path_openat()) adjusted. A subtle change of control flow here: originally a pure-jump trailing symlink ("/" or procfs one) would've passed through the upper level loop once more, with "" for path to traverse. That would've brought us back to the lookup_last/do_last entry and we would've hit LAST_BIND case (LAST_BIND left from get_link() called by trailing_symlink()) and pretty much skip to the point right after where we'd left the sucker back when we picked that trailing symlink. Now we don't bother with that extra pass through the upper level loop - if get_link() says "I've just done a pure jump, nothing else to do", we just treat that as non-symlink case. Boilerplate added on that step will go away shortly - it'll migrate into walk_component() and then to step_into(), collapsing into the change of calling conventions for those. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13merging pick_link() with get_link(), part 1Al Viro
Move restoring LOOKUP_PARENT and zeroing nd->stack.name[0] past the call of get_link() (nothing _currently_ uses them in there). That allows to moved the call of may_follow_link() into get_link() as well, since now the presence of LOOKUP_PARENT distinguishes the callers from each other (link_path_walk() has it, trailing_symlink() doesn't). Preparations for folding trailing_symlink() into callers (lookup_last() and do_last()) and changing the calling conventions of those. Next stage after that will have get_link() call migrate into walk_component(), then - into step_into(). It's tricky enough to warrant doing that in stages, unfortunately... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13expand the only remaining call of path_lookup_conditional()Al Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT: fold path_mountpointat() into path_lookupat()Al Viro
New LOOKUP flag, telling path_lookupat() to act as path_mountpointat(). IOW, traverse mounts at the final point and skip revalidation of the location where it ends up. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13fold handle_mounts() into step_into()Al Viro
The following is true: * calls of handle_mounts() and step_into() are always paired in sequences like err = handle_mounts(nd, dentry, &path, &inode, &seq); if (unlikely(err < 0)) return err; err = step_into(nd, &path, flags, inode, seq); * in all such sequences path is uninitialized before and unused after this pair of calls * in all such sequences inode and seq are unused afterwards. So the call of handle_mounts() can be shifted inside step_into(), turning 'path' into a local variable in the combined function. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13new step_into() flag: WALK_NOFOLLOWAl Viro
Tells step_into() not to follow symlinks, regardless of LOOKUP_FOLLOW. Allows to switch handle_lookup_down() to of step_into(), getting all follow_managed() and step_into() calls paired. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13step_into() callers: dismiss the symlink earlierAl Viro
We need to dismiss a symlink when we are done traversing it; currently that's done when we call step_into() for its last component. For the cases when we do not call step_into() for that component (i.e. when it's . or ..) we do the same symlink dismissal after the call of handle_dots(). What we need to guarantee is that the symlink won't be dismissed while we are still using nd->last.name - it's pointing into the body of said symlink. step_into() is sufficiently late - by the time it's called we'd already obtained the dentry, so the name we'd been looking up is no longer needed. However, it turns out to be cleaner to have that ("we are done with that component now, can dismiss the link") done explicitly - in the callers of step_into(). In handle_dots() case we won't be using the component string at all, so for . and .. the corresponding point is actually _before_ the call of handle_dots(), not after it. Fix a minor irregularity in do_last(), while we are at it - if trailing symlink ended with . or .. we forgot to dismiss it. Not a problem, since nameidata is about to be done with (neither . nor .. can be a trailing symlink, so this is the last iteration through the loop) and terminate_walk() will clean the stack anyway, but let's keep it more regular. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13lookup_fast(): take mount traversal into callersAl Viro
Current calling conventions: -E... on error, 0 on cache miss, result of handle_mounts(nd, dentry, path, inode, seqp) on success. Turn that into returning ERR_PTR(-E...), NULL and dentry resp.; deal with handle_mounts() in the callers. The thing is, they already do that in cache miss handling case, so we just need to supply dentry to them and unify the mount traversal in those cases. Fewer arguments that way, and we get closer to merging handle_mounts() and step_into(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13teach handle_mounts() to handle RCU modeAl Viro
... and make the callers of __follow_mount_rcu() use handle_mounts(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-13lookup_fast(): consolidate the RCU success caseAl Viro
1) in case of __follow_mount_rcu() failure, lookup_fast() proceeds to call unlazy_child() and, should it succeed, handle_mounts(). Note that we have status > 0 (or we wouldn't be calling __follow_mount_rcu() at all), so all stuff conditional upon non-positive status won't be even touched. Consolidate just that sequence after the call of __follow_mount_rcu(). 2) calling d_is_negative() and keeping its result is pointless - we either don't get past checking ->d_seq (and don't use the results of d_is_negative() at all), or we are guaranteed that ->d_inode and type bits of ->d_flags had been consistent at the time of d_is_negative() call. IOW, we could only get to the use of its result if it's equal to !inode. The same ->d_seq check guarantees that after that point this CPU won't observe ->d_flags values older than ->d_inode update. So 'negative' variable is completely pointless these days. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-12handle_mounts(): pass dentry in, turn path into a pure out argumentAl Viro
All callers are equivalent to path->dentry = dentry; path->mnt = nd->path.mnt; err = handle_mounts(path, ...) Pass dentry as an explicit argument, fill *path in handle_mounts() itself. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-12do_last(): collapse the call of path_to_nameidata()Al Viro
... and shift filling struct path to just before the call of handle_mounts(). All callers of handle_mounts() are immediately preceded by path->mnt = nd->path.mnt now. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-12lookup_open(): saner calling conventions (return dentry on success)Al Viro
same story as for atomic_open() in the previous commit. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27atomic_open(): saner calling conventions (return dentry on success)Al Viro
Currently it either returns -E... or puts (nd->path.mnt,dentry) into *path and returns 0. Make it return ERR_PTR(-E...) or dentry; adjust the caller. Fewer arguments and it's easier to keep track of *path contents that way. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27handle_mounts(): start building a sane wrapper for follow_managed()Al Viro
All callers of follow_managed() follow it on success with the same steps - d_backing_inode(path->dentry) is calculated and stored into some struct inode * variable and, in all but one case, an unsigned variable (nd->seq to be) is zeroed. The single exception is lookup_fast() and there zeroing is correct thing to do - not doing it is a pointless microoptimization. Add a wrapper for follow_managed() that would do that combination. It's mostly a vehicle for code massage - it will be changing quite a bit, and the current calling conventions are by no means final. Right now it takes path, nameidata and (as out params) inode and seq, similar to __follow_mount_rcu(). Which will soon get folded into it... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27make build_open_flags() treat O_CREAT | O_EXCL as implying O_NOFOLLOWAl Viro
O_CREAT | O_EXCL means "-EEXIST if we run into a trailing symlink". As it is, we might or might not have LOOKUP_FOLLOW in op->intent in that case - that depends upon having O_NOFOLLOW in open flags. It doesn't matter, since we won't be checking it in that case - do_last() bails out earlier. However, making sure it's not set (i.e. acting as if we had an explicit O_NOFOLLOW) makes the behaviour more explicit and allows to reorder the check for O_CREAT | O_EXCL in do_last() with the call of step_into() immediately following it. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27follow_automount() doesn't need the entire nameidataAl Viro
Only the address of ->total_link_count and the flags. And fix an off-by-one is ELOOP detection - make it consistent with symlink following, where we check if the pre-increment value has reached 40, rather than check the post-increment one. [kudos to Christian Brauner for spotted braino] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27follow_automount(): get rid of dead^Wstillborn codeAl Viro
1) no instances of ->d_automount() have ever made use of the "return ERR_PTR(-EISDIR) if you don't feel like mounting anything" - that's a rudiment of plans that got superseded before the thing went into the tree. Despite the comment in follow_automount(), autofs has never done that. 2) if there's no ->d_automount() in dentry_operations, filesystems should not set DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT in the first place. None have ever done so... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-27fix automount/automount race properlyAl Viro
Protection against automount/automount races (two threads hitting the same referral point at the same time) is based upon do_add_mount() prevention of identical overmounts - trying to overmount the root of mounted tree with the same tree fails with -EBUSY. It's unreliable (the other thread might've mounted something on top of the automount it has triggered) *and* causes no end of headache for follow_automount() and its caller, since finish_automount() behaves like do_new_mount() - if the mountpoint to be is overmounted, it mounts on top what's overmounting it. It's not only wrong (we want to go into what's overmounting the automount point and quietly discard what we planned to mount there), it introduces the possibility of original parent mount getting dropped. That's what 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount) deals with, but it can't do anything about the reliability of conflict detection - if something had been overmounted the other thread's automount (e.g. that other thread having stepped into automount in mount(2)), we don't get that -EBUSY and the result is referral point under automounted NFS under explicit overmount under another copy of automounted NFS What we need is finish_automount() *NOT* digging into overmounts - if it finds one, it should just quietly discard the thing it was asked to mount. And don't bother with actually crossing into the results of finish_automount() - the same loop that calls follow_automount() will do that just fine on the next iteration. IOW, instead of calling lock_mount() have finish_automount() do it manually, _without_ the "move into overmount and retry" part. And leave crossing into the results to the caller of follow_automount(), which simplifies it a lot. Moral: if you end up with a lot of glue working around the calling conventions of something, perhaps these calling conventions are simply wrong... Fixes: 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-02-01vfs: fix do_last() regressionAl Viro
Brown paperbag time: fetching ->i_uid/->i_mode really should've been done from nd->inode. I even suggested that, but the reason for that has slipped through the cracks and I went for dir->d_inode instead - made for more "obvious" patch. Analysis: - at the entry into do_last() and all the way to step_into(): dir (aka nd->path.dentry) is known not to have been freed; so's nd->inode and it's equal to dir->d_inode unless we are already doomed to -ECHILD. inode of the file to get opened is not known. - after step_into(): inode of the file to get opened is known; dir might be pointing to freed memory/be negative/etc. - at the call of may_create_in_sticky(): guaranteed to be out of RCU mode; inode of the file to get opened is known and pinned; dir might be garbage. The last was the reason for the original patch. Except that at the do_last() entry we can be in RCU mode and it is possible that nd->path.dentry->d_inode has already changed under us. In that case we are going to fail with -ECHILD, but we need to be careful; nd->inode is pointing to valid struct inode and it's the same as nd->path.dentry->d_inode in "won't fail with -ECHILD" case, so we should use that. Reported-by: "Rantala, Tommi T. (Nokia - FI/Espoo)" <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com> Reported-by: syzbot+190005201ced78a74ad6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Wearing-brown-paperbag: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: stable@kernel.org Fixes: d0cb50185ae9 ("do_last(): fetch directory ->i_mode and ->i_uid before it's too late") Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-01-29Merge branch 'work.openat2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull openat2 support from Al Viro: "This is the openat2() series from Aleksa Sarai. I'm afraid that the rest of namei stuff will have to wait - it got zero review the last time I'd posted #work.namei, and there had been a leak in the posted series I'd caught only last weekend. I was going to repost it on Monday, but the window opened and the odds of getting any review during that... Oh, well. Anyway, openat2 part should be ready; that _did_ get sane amount of review and public testing, so here it comes" From Aleksa's description of the series: "For a very long time, extending openat(2) with new features has been incredibly frustrating. This stems from the fact that openat(2) is possibly the most famous counter-example to the mantra "don't silently accept garbage from userspace" -- it doesn't check whether unknown flags are present[1]. This means that (generally) the addition of new flags to openat(2) has been fraught with backwards-compatibility issues (O_TMPFILE has to be defined as __O_TMPFILE|O_DIRECTORY|[O_RDWR or O_WRONLY] to ensure old kernels gave errors, since it's insecure to silently ignore the flag[2]). All new security-related flags therefore have a tough road to being added to openat(2). Furthermore, the need for some sort of control over VFS's path resolution (to avoid malicious paths resulting in inadvertent breakouts) has been a very long-standing desire of many userspace applications. This patchset is a revival of Al Viro's old AT_NO_JUMPS[3] patchset (which was a variant of David Drysdale's O_BENEATH patchset[4] which was a spin-off of the Capsicum project[5]) with a few additions and changes made based on the previous discussion within [6] as well as others I felt were useful. In line with the conclusions of the original discussion of AT_NO_JUMPS, the flag has been split up into separate flags. However, instead of being an openat(2) flag it is provided through a new syscall openat2(2) which provides several other improvements to the openat(2) interface (see the patch description for more details). The following new LOOKUP_* flags are added: LOOKUP_NO_XDEV: Blocks all mountpoint crossings (upwards, downwards, or through absolute links). Absolute pathnames alone in openat(2) do not trigger this. Magic-link traversal which implies a vfsmount jump is also blocked (though magic-link jumps on the same vfsmount are permitted). LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS: Blocks resolution through /proc/$pid/fd-style links. This is done by blocking the usage of nd_jump_link() during resolution in a filesystem. The term "magic-links" is used to match with the only reference to these links in Documentation/, but I'm happy to change the name. It should be noted that this is different to the scope of ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW in that it applies to all path components. However, you can do openat2(NO_FOLLOW|NO_MAGICLINKS) on a magic-link and it will *not* fail (assuming that no parent component was a magic-link), and you will have an fd for the magic-link. In order to correctly detect magic-links, the introduction of a new LOOKUP_MAGICLINK_JUMPED state flag was required. LOOKUP_BENEATH: Disallows escapes to outside the starting dirfd's tree, using techniques such as ".." or absolute links. Absolute paths in openat(2) are also disallowed. Conceptually this flag is to ensure you "stay below" a certain point in the filesystem tree -- but this requires some additional to protect against various races that would allow escape using "..". Currently LOOKUP_BENEATH implies LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS, because it can trivially beam you around the filesystem (breaking the protection). In future, there might be similar safety checks done as in LOOKUP_IN_ROOT, but that requires more discussion. In addition, two new flags are added that expand on the above ideas: LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS: Does what it says on the tin. No symlink resolution is allowed at all, including magic-links. Just as with LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS this can still be used with NOFOLLOW to open an fd for the symlink as long as no parent path had a symlink component. LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: This is an extension of LOOKUP_BENEATH that, rather than blocking attempts to move past the root, forces all such movements to be scoped to the starting point. This provides chroot(2)-like protection but without the cost of a chroot(2) for each filesystem operation, as well as being safe against race attacks that chroot(2) is not. If a race is detected (as with LOOKUP_BENEATH) then an error is generated, and similar to LOOKUP_BENEATH it is not permitted to cross magic-links with LOOKUP_IN_ROOT. The primary need for this is from container runtimes, which currently need to do symlink scoping in userspace[7] when opening paths in a potentially malicious container. There is a long list of CVEs that could have bene mitigated by having RESOLVE_THIS_ROOT (such as CVE-2017-1002101, CVE-2017-1002102, CVE-2018-15664, and CVE-2019-5736, just to name a few). In order to make all of the above more usable, I'm working on libpathrs[8] which is a C-friendly library for safe path resolution. It features a userspace-emulated backend if the kernel doesn't support openat2(2). Hopefully we can get userspace to switch to using it, and thus get openat2(2) support for free once it's ready. Future work would include implementing things like RESOLVE_NO_AUTOMOUNT and possibly a RESOLVE_NO_REMOTE (to allow programs to be sure they don't hit DoSes though stale NFS handles)" * 'work.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: Documentation: path-lookup: include new LOOKUP flags selftests: add openat2(2) selftests open: introduce openat2(2) syscall namei: LOOKUP_{IN_ROOT,BENEATH}: permit limited ".." resolution namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like scoped resolution namei: LOOKUP_BENEATH: O_BENEATH-like scoped resolution namei: LOOKUP_NO_XDEV: block mountpoint crossing namei: LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS: block magic-link resolution namei: LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS: block symlink resolution namei: allow set_root() to produce errors namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errors nsfs: clean-up ns_get_path() signature to return int namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu()
2020-01-26do_last(): fetch directory ->i_mode and ->i_uid before it's too lateAl Viro
may_create_in_sticky() call is done when we already have dropped the reference to dir. Fixes: 30aba6656f61e (namei: allow restricted O_CREAT of FIFOs and regular files) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-01-15fix autofs regression caused by follow_managed() changesAl Viro
we need to reload ->d_flags after the call of ->d_manage() - the thing might've been called with dentry still negative and have the damn thing turned positive while we'd waited. Fixes: d41efb522e90 "fs/namei.c: pull positivity check into follow_managed()" Reported-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-01-15reimplement path_mountpoint() with less magicAl Viro
... and get rid of a bunch of bugs in it. Background: the reason for path_mountpoint() is that umount() really doesn't want attempts to revalidate the root of what it's trying to umount. The thing we want to avoid actually happen from complete_walk(); solution was to do something parallel to normal path_lookupat() and it both went overboard and got the boilerplate subtly (and not so subtly) wrong. A better solution is to do pretty much what the normal path_lookupat() does, but instead of complete_walk() do unlazy_walk(). All it takes to avoid that ->d_weak_revalidate() call... mountpoint_last() goes away, along with everything it got wrong, and so does the magic around LOOKUP_NO_REVAL. Another source of bugs is that when we traverse mounts at the final location (and we need to do that - umount . expects to get whatever's overmounting ., if any, out of the lookup) we really ought to take care of ->d_manage() - as it is, manual umount of autofs automount in progress can lead to unpleasant surprises for the daemon. Easily solved by using handle_lookup_down() instead of follow_mount(). Tested-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_{IN_ROOT,BENEATH}: permit limited ".." resolutionAleksa Sarai
Allow LOOKUP_BENEATH and LOOKUP_IN_ROOT to safely permit ".." resolution (in the case of LOOKUP_BENEATH the resolution will still fail if ".." resolution would resolve a path outside of the root -- while LOOKUP_IN_ROOT will chroot(2)-style scope it). Magic-link jumps are still disallowed entirely[*]. As Jann explains[1,2], the need for this patch (and the original no-".." restriction) is explained by observing there is a fairly easy-to-exploit race condition with chroot(2) (and thus by extension LOOKUP_IN_ROOT and LOOKUP_BENEATH if ".." is allowed) where a rename(2) of a path can be used to "skip over" nd->root and thus escape to the filesystem above nd->root. thread1 [attacker]: for (;;) renameat2(AT_FDCWD, "/a/b/c", AT_FDCWD, "/a/d", RENAME_EXCHANGE); thread2 [victim]: for (;;) openat2(dirb, "b/c/../../etc/shadow", { .flags = O_PATH, .resolve = RESOLVE_IN_ROOT } ); With fairly significant regularity, thread2 will resolve to "/etc/shadow" rather than "/a/b/etc/shadow". There is also a similar (though somewhat more privileged) attack using MS_MOVE. With this patch, such cases will be detected *during* ".." resolution and will return -EAGAIN for userspace to decide to either retry or abort the lookup. It should be noted that ".." is the weak point of chroot(2) -- walking *into* a subdirectory tautologically cannot result in you walking *outside* nd->root (except through a bind-mount or magic-link). There is also no other way for a directory's parent to change (which is the primary worry with ".." resolution here) other than a rename or MS_MOVE. The primary reason for deferring to userspace with -EAGAIN is that an in-kernel retry loop (or doing a path_is_under() check after re-taking the relevant seqlocks) can become unreasonably expensive on machines with lots of VFS activity (nfsd can cause lots of rename_lock updates). Thus it should be up to userspace how many times they wish to retry the lookup -- the selftests for this attack indicate that there is a ~35% chance of the lookup succeeding on the first try even with an attacker thrashing rename_lock. A variant of the above attack is included in the selftests for openat2(2) later in this patch series. I've run this test on several machines for several days and no instances of a breakout were detected. While this is not concrete proof that this is safe, when combined with the above argument it should lend some trustworthiness to this construction. [*] It may be acceptable in the future to do a path_is_under() check for magic-links after they are resolved. However this seems unlikely to be a feature that people *really* need -- it can be added later if it turns out a lot of people want it. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez1jzNvxB+bfOBnERFGp=oMM0vHWuLD6EULmne3R6xa53w@mail.gmail.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez30WJhbsro2HOc_DR7V91M+hNFzBP5ogRMZaxbAORvqzg@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_IN_ROOT: chroot-like scoped resolutionAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ Container runtimes or other administrative management processes will often interact with root filesystems while in the host mount namespace, because the cost of doing a chroot(2) on every operation is too prohibitive (especially in Go, which cannot safely use vfork). However, a malicious program can trick the management process into doing operations on files outside of the root filesystem through careful crafting of symlinks. Most programs that need this feature have attempted to make this process safe, by doing all of the path resolution in userspace (with symlinks being scoped to the root of the malicious root filesystem). Unfortunately, this method is prone to foot-guns and usually such implementations have subtle security bugs. Thus, what userspace needs is a way to resolve a path as though it were in a chroot(2) -- with all absolute symlinks being resolved relative to the dirfd root (and ".." components being stuck under the dirfd root). It is much simpler and more straight-forward to provide this functionality in-kernel (because it can be done far more cheaply and correctly). More classical applications that also have this problem (which have their own potentially buggy userspace path sanitisation code) include web servers, archive extraction tools, network file servers, and so on. /* Userspace API. */ LOOKUP_IN_ROOT will be exposed to userspace through openat2(2). /* Semantics. */ Unlike most other LOOKUP flags (most notably LOOKUP_FOLLOW), LOOKUP_IN_ROOT applies to all components of the path. With LOOKUP_IN_ROOT, any path component which attempts to cross the starting point of the pathname lookup (the dirfd passed to openat) will remain at the starting point. Thus, all absolute paths and symlinks will be scoped within the starting point. There is a slight change in behaviour regarding pathnames -- if the pathname is absolute then the dirfd is still used as the root of resolution of LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is specified (this is to avoid obvious foot-guns, at the cost of a minor API inconsistency). As with LOOKUP_BENEATH, Jann's security concern about ".."[1] applies to LOOKUP_IN_ROOT -- therefore ".." resolution is blocked. This restriction will be lifted in a future patch, but requires more work to ensure that permitting ".." is done safely. Magic-link jumps are also blocked, because they can beam the path lookup across the starting point. It would be possible to detect and block only the "bad" crossings with path_is_under() checks, but it's unclear whether it makes sense to permit magic-links at all. However, userspace is recommended to pass LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS if they want to ensure that magic-link crossing is entirely disabled. /* Testing. */ LOOKUP_IN_ROOT is tested as part of the openat2(2) selftests. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez1jzNvxB+bfOBnERFGp=oMM0vHWuLD6EULmne3R6xa53w@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_BENEATH: O_BENEATH-like scoped resolutionAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ There are many circumstances when userspace wants to resolve a path and ensure that it doesn't go outside of a particular root directory during resolution. Obvious examples include archive extraction tools, as well as other security-conscious userspace programs. FreeBSD spun out O_BENEATH from their Capsicum project[1,2], so it also seems reasonable to implement similar functionality for Linux. This is part of a refresh of Al's AT_NO_JUMPS patchset[3] (which was a variation on David Drysdale's O_BENEATH patchset[4], which in turn was based on the Capsicum project[5]). /* Userspace API. */ LOOKUP_BENEATH will be exposed to userspace through openat2(2). /* Semantics. */ Unlike most other LOOKUP flags (most notably LOOKUP_FOLLOW), LOOKUP_BENEATH applies to all components of the path. With LOOKUP_BENEATH, any path component which attempts to "escape" the starting point of the filesystem lookup (the dirfd passed to openat) will yield -EXDEV. Thus, all absolute paths and symlinks are disallowed. Due to a security concern brought up by Jann[6], any ".." path components are also blocked. This restriction will be lifted in a future patch, but requires more work to ensure that permitting ".." is done safely. Magic-link jumps are also blocked, because they can beam the path lookup across the starting point. It would be possible to detect and block only the "bad" crossings with path_is_under() checks, but it's unclear whether it makes sense to permit magic-links at all. However, userspace is recommended to pass LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS if they want to ensure that magic-link crossing is entirely disabled. /* Testing. */ LOOKUP_BENEATH is tested as part of the openat2(2) selftests. [1]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D2808 [2]: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17547 [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170429220414.GT29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1415094884-18349-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ [5]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1404124096-21445-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ [6]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAG48ez1jzNvxB+bfOBnERFGp=oMM0vHWuLD6EULmne3R6xa53w@mail.gmail.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_NO_XDEV: block mountpoint crossingAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ The need to contain path operations within a mountpoint has been a long-standing usecase that userspace has historically implemented manually with liberal usage of stat(). find, rsync, tar and many other programs implement these semantics -- but it'd be much simpler to have a fool-proof way of refusing to open a path if it crosses a mountpoint. This is part of a refresh of Al's AT_NO_JUMPS patchset[1] (which was a variation on David Drysdale's O_BENEATH patchset[2], which in turn was based on the Capsicum project[3]). /* Userspace API. */ LOOKUP_NO_XDEV will be exposed to userspace through openat2(2). /* Semantics. */ Unlike most other LOOKUP flags (most notably LOOKUP_FOLLOW), LOOKUP_NO_XDEV applies to all components of the path. With LOOKUP_NO_XDEV, any path component which crosses a mount-point during path resolution (including "..") will yield an -EXDEV. Absolute paths, absolute symlinks, and magic-links will only yield an -EXDEV if the jump involved changing mount-points. /* Testing. */ LOOKUP_NO_XDEV is tested as part of the openat2(2) selftests. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170429220414.GT29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1415094884-18349-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1404124096-21445-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS: block magic-link resolutionAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ There has always been a special class of symlink-like objects in procfs (and a few other pseudo-filesystems) which allow for non-lexical resolution of paths using nd_jump_link(). These "magic-links" do not follow traditional mount namespace boundaries, and have been used consistently in container escape attacks because they can be used to trick unsuspecting privileged processes into resolving unexpected paths. It is also non-trivial for userspace to unambiguously avoid resolving magic-links, because they do not have a reliable indication that they are a magic-link (in order to verify them you'd have to manually open the path given by readlink(2) and then verify that the two file descriptors reference the same underlying file, which is plagued with possible race conditions or supplementary attack scenarios). It would therefore be very helpful for userspace to be able to avoid these symlinks easily, thus hopefully removing a tool from attackers' toolboxes. This is part of a refresh of Al's AT_NO_JUMPS patchset[1] (which was a variation on David Drysdale's O_BENEATH patchset[2], which in turn was based on the Capsicum project[3]). /* Userspace API. */ LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS will be exposed to userspace through openat2(2). /* Semantics. */ Unlike most other LOOKUP flags (most notably LOOKUP_FOLLOW), LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS applies to all components of the path. With LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS, any magic-link path component encountered during path resolution will yield -ELOOP. The handling of ~LOOKUP_FOLLOW for a trailing magic-link is identical to LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS. LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS implies LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS. /* Testing. */ LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS is tested as part of the openat2(2) selftests. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170429220414.GT29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1415094884-18349-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1404124096-21445-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS: block symlink resolutionAleksa Sarai
/* Background. */ Userspace cannot easily resolve a path without resolving symlinks, and would have to manually resolve each path component with O_PATH and O_NOFOLLOW. This is clearly inefficient, and can be fairly easy to screw up (resulting in possible security bugs). Linus has mentioned that Git has a particular need for this kind of flag[1]. It also resolves a fairly long-standing perceived deficiency in O_NOFOLLOw -- that it only blocks the opening of trailing symlinks. This is part of a refresh of Al's AT_NO_JUMPS patchset[2] (which was a variation on David Drysdale's O_BENEATH patchset[3], which in turn was based on the Capsicum project[4]). /* Userspace API. */ LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS will be exposed to userspace through openat2(2). /* Semantics. */ Unlike most other LOOKUP flags (most notably LOOKUP_FOLLOW), LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS applies to all components of the path. With LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS, any symlink path component encountered during path resolution will yield -ELOOP. If the trailing component is a symlink (and no other components were symlinks), then O_PATH|O_NOFOLLOW will not error out and will instead provide a handle to the trailing symlink -- without resolving it. /* Testing. */ LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS is tested as part of the openat2(2) selftests. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CA+55aFyOKM7DW7+0sdDFKdZFXgptb5r1id9=Wvhd8AgSP7qjwQ@mail.gmail.com/ [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20170429220414.GT29622@ZenIV.linux.org.uk/ [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1415094884-18349-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1404124096-21445-1-git-send-email-drysdale@google.com/ Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: allow set_root() to produce errorsAleksa Sarai
For LOOKUP_BENEATH and LOOKUP_IN_ROOT it is necessary to ensure that set_root() is never called, and thus (for hardening purposes) it should return an error rather than permit a breakout from the root. In addition, move all of the repetitive set_root() calls to nd_jump_root(). Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: allow nd_jump_link() to produce errorsAleksa Sarai
In preparation for LOOKUP_NO_MAGICLINKS, it's necessary to add the ability for nd_jump_link() to return an error which the corresponding get_link() caller must propogate back up to the VFS. Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-08namei: only return -ECHILD from follow_dotdot_rcu()Aleksa Sarai
It's over-zealous to return hard errors under RCU-walk here, given that a REF-walk will be triggered for all other cases handling ".." under RCU. The original purpose of this check was to ensure that if a rename occurs such that a directory is moved outside of the bind-mount which the resolution started in, it would be detected and blocked to avoid being able to mess with paths outside of the bind-mount. However, triggering a new REF-walk is just as effective a solution. Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Fixes: 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root") Suggested-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-12-06Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds
Pull vfs d_inode/d_flags memory ordering fixes from Al Viro: "Fallout from tree-wide audit for ->d_inode/->d_flags barriers use. Basically, the problem is that negative pinned dentries require careful treatment - unless ->d_lock is locked or parent is held at least shared, another thread can make them positive right under us. Most of the uses turned out to be safe - the main surprises as far as filesystems are concerned were - race in dget_parent() fastpath, that might end up with the caller observing the returned dentry _negative_, due to insufficient barriers. It is positive in memory, but we could end up seeing the wrong value of ->d_inode in CPU cache. Fixed. - manual checks that result of lookup_one_len_unlocked() is positive (and rejection of negatives). Again, insufficient barriers (we might end up with inconsistent observed values of ->d_inode and ->d_flags). Fixed by switching to a new primitive that does the checks itself and returns ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) instead of a negative dentry. That way we get rid of boilerplate converting negatives into ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) in the callers and have a single place to deal with the barrier-related mess - inside fs/namei.c rather than in every caller out there. The guts of pathname resolution *do* need to be careful - the race found by Ritesh is real, as well as several similar races. Fortunately, it turns out that we can take care of that with fairly local changes in there. The tree-wide audit had not been fun, and I hate the idea of repeating it. I think the right approach would be to annotate the places where we are _not_ guaranteed ->d_inode/->d_flags stability and have sparse catch regressions. But I'm still not sure what would be the least invasive way of doing that and it's clearly the next cycle fodder" * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: fs/namei.c: fix missing barriers when checking positivity fix dget_parent() fastpath race new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked() fs/namei.c: pull positivity check into follow_managed()
2019-11-15fs/namei.c: fix missing barriers when checking positivityAl Viro
Pinned negative dentries can, generally, be made positive by another thread. Conditions that prevent that are * ->d_lock on dentry in question * parent directory held at least shared * nobody else could have observed the address of dentry Most of the places working with those fall into one of those categories; however, d_lookup() and friends need to be used with some care. Fortunately, there's not a lot of call sites, and with few exceptions all of those fall under one of the cases above. Exceptions are all in fs/namei.c - in lookup_fast(), lookup_dcache() and mountpoint_last(). Another one is lookup_slow() - there dcache lookup is done with parent held shared, but the result is used after we'd drop the lock. The same happens in do_last() - the lookup (in lookup_one()) is done with parent locked, but result is used after unlocking. lookup_fast(), do_last() and mountpoint_last() flat-out reject negatives. Most of lookup_dcache() calls are made with parent locked at least shared; the only exception is lookup_one_len_unlocked(). It might return pinned negative, needs serious care from callers. Fortunately, almost nobody calls it directly anymore; all but two callers have converted to lookup_positive_unlocked(), which rejects negatives. lookup_slow() is called by the same lookup_one_len_unlocked() (see above), mountpoint_last() and walk_component(). In those two negatives are rejected. In other words, there is a small set of places where we need to check carefully if a pinned potentially negative dentry is, in fact, positive. After that check we want to be sure that both ->d_inode and type bits in ->d_flags are stable and observed. The set consists of follow_managed() (where the rejection happens for lookup_fast(), walk_component() and do_last()), last_mountpoint() and lookup_positive_unlocked(). Solution: 1) transition from negative to positive (in __d_set_inode_and_type()) stores ->d_inode, then uses smp_store_release() to set ->d_flags type bits. 2) aforementioned 3 places in fs/namei.c fetch ->d_flags with smp_load_acquire() and bugger off if it type bits say "negative". That way anyone downstream of those checks has dentry know positive pinned, with ->d_inode and type bits of ->d_flags stable and observed. I considered splitting off d_lookup_positive(), so that the checks could be done right there, under ->d_lock. However, that leads to massive duplication of rather subtle code in fs/namei.c and fs/dcache.c. It's worse than it might seem, thanks to autofs ->d_manage() getting involved ;-/ No matter what, autofs_d_manage()/autofs_d_automount() must live with the possibility of pinned negative dentry passed their way, becoming positive under them - that's the intended behaviour when lookup comes in the middle of automount in progress, so we can't keep them out of the area that has to deal with those, more's the pity... Reported-by: Ritesh Harjani <riteshh@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-11-15new helper: lookup_positive_unlocked()Al Viro
Most of the callers of lookup_one_len_unlocked() treat negatives are ERR_PTR(-ENOENT). Provide a helper that would do just that. Note that a pinned positive dentry remains positive - it's ->d_inode is stable, etc.; a pinned _negative_ dentry can become positive at any point as long as you are not holding its parent at least shared. So using lookup_one_len_unlocked() needs to be careful; lookup_positive_unlocked() is safer and that's what the callers end up open-coding anyway. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2019-11-15fs/namei.c: pull positivity check into follow_managed()Al Viro
There are 4 callers; two proceed to check if result is positive and fail with ENOENT if it isn't; one (in handle_lookup_down()) is guaranteed to yield positive and one (in lookup_fast()) is _preceded_ by positivity check. However, follow_managed() on a negative dentry is a (fairly cheap) no-op on anything other than autofs. And negative autofs dentries are never hashed, so lookup_fast() is not going to run into one of those. Moreover, successful follow_managed() on a _positive_ dentry never yields a negative one (and we significantly rely upon that in callers of lookup_fast()). In other words, we can easily transpose the positivity check and the call of follow_managed() in lookup_fast(). And that allows to fold the positivity check *into* follow_managed(), simplifying life for the code downstream of its calls. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>