Re: [PATCH v2 15/30] xfs: Define usercopy region in xfs_inode slab cache

[Dave Chinner]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 11:48:49AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 9:47 PM, Darrick J. Wong
> <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:57:14PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 2:49 PM, Darrick J. Wong
> >> <darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 02:34:56PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> >> >> From: David Windsor <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> >>
> >> >> The XFS inline inode data, stored in struct xfs_inode_t field
> >> >> i_df.if_u2.if_inline_data and therefore contained in the xfs_inode slab
> >> >> cache, needs to be copied to/from userspace.
> >> >>
> >> >> cache object allocation:
> >> >>     fs/xfs/xfs_icache.c:
> >> >>         xfs_inode_alloc(...):
> >> >>             ...
> >> >>             ip = kmem_zone_alloc(xfs_inode_zone, KM_SLEEP);
> >> >>
> >> >>     fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.c:
> >> >>         xfs_init_local_fork(...):
> >> >>             ...
> >> >>             if (mem_size <= sizeof(ifp->if_u2.if_inline_data))
> >> >>                     ifp->if_u1.if_data = ifp->if_u2.if_inline_data;
> >> >
> >> > Hmm, what happens when mem_size > sizeof(if_inline_data)?  A slab object
> >> > will be allocated for ifp->if_u1.if_data which can then be used for
> >> > readlink in the same manner as the example usage trace below.  Does
> >> > that allocated object have a need for a usercopy annotation like
> >> > the one we're adding for if_inline_data?  Or is that already covered
> >> > elsewhere?
> >>
> >> Yeah, the xfs helper kmem_alloc() is used in the other case, which
> >> ultimately boils down to a call to kmalloc(), which is entirely
> >> whitelisted by an earlier patch in the series:
> >>
> >> https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/8/28/1026
> >
> > Ah.  It would've been helpful to have the first three patches cc'd to
> > the xfs list.  So basically this series establishes the ability to set
> 
> I went back and forth on that, and given all the things it touched, it
> seemed like too large a CC list. :) I can explicitly add the xfs list
> to the first three for any future versions.

If you are touching multiple filesystems, you really should cc the
entire patchset to linux-fsdevel, similar to how you sent the entire
patchset to lkml. That way the entire series will end up on a list
that almost all fs developers read. LKML is not a list you can rely
on all filesystem developers reading (or developers in any other
subsystem, for that matter)...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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