linux-brain/fs
Joel Fernandes (Google) ab3948f58f mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd
Android uses ashmem for sharing memory regions.  We are looking forward
to migrating all usecases of ashmem to memfd so that we can possibly
remove the ashmem driver in the future from staging while also
benefiting from using memfd and contributing to it.  Note staging
drivers are also not ABI and generally can be removed at anytime.

One of the main usecases Android has is the ability to create a region
and mmap it as writeable, then add protection against making any
"future" writes while keeping the existing already mmap'ed
writeable-region active.  This allows us to implement a usecase where
receivers of the shared memory buffer can get a read-only view, while
the sender continues to write to the buffer.  See CursorWindow
documentation in Android for more details:

  https://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/CursorWindow

This usecase cannot be implemented with the existing F_SEAL_WRITE seal.
To support the usecase, this patch adds a new F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal
which prevents any future mmap and write syscalls from succeeding while
keeping the existing mmap active.

A better way to do F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal was discussed [1] last week
where we don't need to modify core VFS structures to get the same
behavior of the seal.  This solves several side-effects pointed by Andy.
self-tests are provided in later patch to verify the expected semantics.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20181111173650.GA256781@google.com/

Thanks a lot to Andy for suggestions to improve code.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190112203816.85534-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Cc: Marc-Andr Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 21:07:19 -08:00
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9p Merge branch 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-11-01 19:58:52 -07:00
adfs adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion 2018-08-22 10:52:51 -07:00
affs affs: fix potential memory leak when parsing option 'prefix' 2018-05-28 12:36:41 +02:00
afs afs: Fix manually set volume location server list 2019-02-25 11:59:07 -08:00
autofs autofs: fix error return in autofs_fill_super() 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
befs fix a series of Documentation/ broken file name references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
bfs bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
btrfs for-5.0-rc4-tag 2019-02-03 08:48:33 -08:00
cachefiles fscache, cachefiles: remove redundant variable 'cache' 2018-11-30 16:00:58 +00:00
ceph ceph: avoid repeatedly adding inode to mdsc->snap_flush_list 2019-02-18 18:08:29 +01:00
cifs cifs: update internal module version number 2019-01-31 07:05:06 -06:00
coda vfs: change inode times to use struct timespec64 2018-06-05 16:57:31 -07:00
configfs configfs: fix registered group removal 2018-07-17 06:14:07 -07:00
cramfs Make the Cramfs code more robust against filesystem corruptions, 2018-10-30 12:46:25 -07:00
crypto crypto: clarify name of WEAK_KEY request flag 2019-01-25 18:41:52 +08:00
debugfs debugfs: debugfs_lookup() should return NULL if not found 2019-01-30 12:39:49 +01:00
devpts devpts: Convert to new IDA API 2018-08-21 23:54:17 -04:00
dlm socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes 2019-02-03 11:17:31 -08:00
ecryptfs crypto: clarify name of WEAK_KEY request flag 2019-01-25 18:41:52 +08:00
efivarfs efivars: Call guid_parse() against guid_t type of variable 2018-07-22 14:13:44 +02:00
efs
exofs exofs_mount(): fix leaks on failure exits 2018-12-17 18:36:33 -05:00
exportfs exportfs: do not read dentry after free 2018-11-23 09:08:17 -05:00
ext2 \n 2018-12-27 17:00:35 -08:00
ext4 Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal" 2019-01-31 23:41:11 -05:00
f2fs f2fs-for-4.21-rc1 2018-12-31 09:41:37 -08:00
fat Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
freevxfs
fscache fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object 2018-11-30 15:57:31 +00:00
fuse fuse: decrement NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP on the right page 2019-01-16 10:27:59 +01:00
gfs2 Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head" 2019-02-14 09:52:51 -08:00
hfs hfs: do not free node before using 2018-11-30 14:56:14 -08:00
hfsplus hfsplus: return file attributes on statx 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
hostfs vfs: discard ATTR_ATTR_FLAG 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
hpfs hpfs: remove unnecessary checks on the value of r when assigning error code 2018-08-25 12:42:33 -07:00
hugetlbfs mm/memfd: add an F_SEAL_FUTURE_WRITE seal to memfd 2019-03-05 21:07:19 -08:00
isofs Update email address 2018-09-29 22:47:48 -04:00
jbd2 jbd2: clean up indentation issue, replace spaces with tab 2018-12-04 00:20:10 -05:00
jffs2 jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage 2018-12-02 09:20:34 +01:00
jfs jfs: remove redundant dquot_initialize() in jfs_evict_inode() 2018-09-20 09:28:49 -05:00
kernfs fs: kernfs: add poll file operation 2019-03-05 21:07:17 -08:00
lockd NFS client updates for Linux 4.21 2019-01-02 16:35:23 -08:00
minix
nfs Merge branch 'fixes-v5.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-02-20 09:09:33 -08:00
nfs_common
nfsd Revert "nfsd4: return default lease period" 2019-02-14 12:33:19 -05:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: Use xa_erase_irq 2018-11-05 14:57:05 -05:00
nls
notify inotify: Fix fd refcount leak in inotify_add_watch(). 2019-01-02 18:28:37 +01:00
ntfs mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
ocfs2 ocfs2: Use zero-sized array and struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
omfs
openpromfs fs/openpromfs: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons 2018-11-18 13:35:19 -08:00
orangefs orangefs: remove two un-needed BUG_ONs... 2019-02-20 15:12:52 -05:00
overlayfs Revert "ovl: relax permission checking on underlying layers" 2018-12-04 11:31:30 +01:00
proc mm: update ptep_modify_prot_commit to take old pte value as arg 2019-03-05 21:07:18 -08:00
pstore pstore/ram: Avoid allocation and leak of platform data 2019-01-20 14:44:52 -08:00
qnx4
qnx6
quota quota: Lock s_umount in exclusive mode for Q_XQUOTA{ON,OFF} quotactls. 2018-12-18 18:29:15 +01:00
ramfs
reiserfs reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
romfs
squashfs Squashfs: Compute expected length from inode size rather than block length 2018-08-02 09:34:02 -07:00
sysfs sysfs: convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON 2019-01-07 08:53:32 +01:00
sysv sysv: return 'err' instead of 0 in __sysv_write_inode 2018-11-10 08:02:40 -05:00
tracefs tracefs: Annotate tracefs_ops with __ro_after_init 2018-07-31 11:32:44 -04:00
ubifs mm: migrate: drop unused argument of migrate_page_move_mapping() 2018-12-28 12:11:51 -08:00
udf \n 2018-12-27 17:00:35 -08:00
ufs fs/ufs: use ktime_get_real_seconds for sb and cg timestamps 2018-08-17 16:20:27 -07:00
xfs xfs: set buffer ops when repair probes for btree type 2019-02-03 14:03:59 -08:00
aio.c Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-04 13:24:27 -08:00
anon_inodes.c anon_inode_getfile(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() 2018-07-12 10:04:27 -04:00
attr.c fs: Fix attr.c kernel-doc 2018-07-03 16:44:45 -04:00
bad_inode.c get rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() - part 3 2018-07-12 10:04:20 -04:00
binfmt_aout.c a.out: remove core dumping support 2019-03-05 10:00:35 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
binfmt_elf.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c turn filp_clone_open() into inline wrapper for dentry_open() 2018-07-10 23:29:03 -04:00
binfmt_script.c exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path 2019-02-18 16:49:36 -08:00
block_dev.c blockdev: Fix livelocks on loop device 2019-01-15 07:30:56 -07:00
buffer.c fs: ratelimit __find_get_block_slow() failure message. 2019-02-06 12:58:56 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32 2018-08-27 14:48:48 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c media updates for v4.20-rc1 2018-10-29 14:29:58 -07:00
compat.c ncpfs: remove compat functionality 2018-06-05 19:23:26 +02:00
coredump.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
d_path.c
dax.c dax fix 4.21 2018-12-31 09:46:39 -08:00
dcache.c fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries 2019-01-30 11:02:11 -08:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c direct-io: allow direct writes to empty inodes 2019-01-22 08:26:44 -07:00
drop_caches.c fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb() 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
eventfd.c Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
eventpoll.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
exec.c exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file 2019-02-18 21:26:24 -05:00
fcntl.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
file.c fs/file.c: initialize init_files.resize_wait 2019-03-05 21:07:14 -08:00
filesystems.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches 2019-01-22 14:39:38 -07:00
inode.c fs/inode.c: inode_set_flags(): replace opencoded set_mask_bits() 2019-03-05 21:07:13 -08:00
internal.h overlayfs update for 4.19 2018-08-21 18:19:09 -07:00
ioctl.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
iomap.c iomap: fix a use after free in iomap_dio_rw 2019-01-27 08:47:42 -08:00
Kconfig autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs 2018-06-11 08:22:34 -07:00
Kconfig.binfmt kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
libfs.c
locks.c locks: fix error in locks_move_blocks() 2019-01-02 20:14:50 -05:00
Makefile autofs: remove left-over autofs4 stubs 2018-06-11 08:22:34 -07:00
mbcache.c treewide: kmalloc() -> kmalloc_array() 2018-06-12 16:19:22 -07:00
mount.h
mpage.c mpage: mpage_readpages() should submit IO as read-ahead 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -07:00
namei.c Revert "vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems." 2018-12-22 14:18:34 -08:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-04 13:24:27 -08:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c
open.c overlayfs update for 4.19 2018-08-21 18:19:09 -07:00
pipe.c memcg: localize memcg_kmem_enabled() check 2019-03-05 21:07:15 -08:00
pnode.c vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled 2018-12-20 16:32:56 +00:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
readdir.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
select.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
seq_file.c fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
signalfd.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
splice.c fs: Make splice() and tee() take into account O_NONBLOCK flag on pipes 2019-03-04 16:10:17 -08:00
stack.c
stat.c y2038: Remove newstat family from default syscall set 2018-08-29 15:42:20 +02:00
statfs.c kernel: add kcompat_sys_{f,}statfs64() 2018-07-12 14:49:48 +01:00
super.c mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT 2018-12-21 11:51:23 -05:00
sync.c
timerfd.c y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32 2018-08-27 14:48:48 +02:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: clear flag if remap event not enabled 2018-12-28 12:11:51 -08:00
utimes.c y2038: utimes: Rework #ifdef guards for compat syscalls 2018-08-29 15:42:23 +02:00
xattr.c sysfs: Do not return POSIX ACL xattrs via listxattr 2018-09-18 07:30:48 -04:00