[PATCH v3 0/2] vfs: make active swap files unwritable

From: Darrick J. Wong
Date: Thu Aug 15 2019 - 12:06:07 EST


Hi all,

I discovered that it's possible for userspace to write to active swap
files and swap devices. While activated, the kernel effectively holds
an irrevocable (except by swapoff) longterm lease on the storage
associated with the swap device, so we need to shut down this vector for
memory corruption of userspace programs.

Nothing new for v3 other than rebasing against 5.3-rc4.

If you're going to start using this mess, you probably ought to just
pull from my git trees, which are linked below.

This has been lightly tested with fstests. Enjoy!
Comments and questions are, as always, welcome.

--D

kernel git tree:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfs-linux.git/log/?h=immutable-swapfiles

fstests git tree:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/djwong/xfstests-dev.git/log/?h=immutable-swapfiles