History log of /linux-master/fs/proc/self.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 200d9421 04-Oct-2023 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

proc: convert to new timestamp accessors

Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-59-jlayton@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# e9d7d3cb 05-Jul-2023 Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

procfs: convert to ctime accessor functions

In later patches, we're going to change how the inode's ctime field is
used. Switch to using accessor functions instead of raw accesses of
inode->i_ctime.

Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Message-Id: <20230705190309.579783-65-jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>


# 2587890b 15-Feb-2021 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components"

This reverts commit 8d4c3e76e3be11a64df95ddee52e99092d42fc19.

No longer needed, as the io-wq worker threads have the right identity.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 9e8d9e82 15-Feb-2021 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Revert "proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/thread-self components"

This reverts commit 0d4370cfe36b7f1719123b621a4ec4d9c7a25f89.

No longer needed, as the io-wq worker threads have the right identity.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 0d4370cf 14-Feb-2021 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/thread-self components

If this is attempted by an io-wq kthread, then return -EOPNOTSUPP as we
don't currently support that. Once we can get task_pid_ptr() doing the
right thing, then this can go away again.

Use PF_IO_WORKER for this to speciically target the io_uring workers.
Modify the /proc/self/ check to use PF_IO_WORKER as well.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 8d4c3e76e3be ("proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components")
Reported-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 8d4c3e76 13-Nov-2020 Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

proc: don't allow async path resolution of /proc/self components

If this is attempted by a kthread, then return -EOPNOTSUPP as we don't
currently support that. Once we can get task_pid_ptr() doing the right
thing, then this can go away again.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# ef1548ad 12-Jun-2020 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

proc: Use new_inode not new_inode_pseudo

Recently syzbot reported that unmounting proc when there is an ongoing
inotify watch on the root directory of proc could result in a use
after free when the watch is removed after the unmount of proc
when the watcher exits.

Commit 69879c01a0c3 ("proc: Remove the now unnecessary internal mount
of proc") made it easier to unmount proc and allowed syzbot to see the
problem, but looking at the code it has been around for a long time.

Looking at the code the fsnotify watch should have been removed by
fsnotify_sb_delete in generic_shutdown_super. Unfortunately the inode
was allocated with new_inode_pseudo instead of new_inode so the inode
was not on the sb->s_inodes list. Which prevented
fsnotify_unmount_inodes from finding the inode and removing the watch
as well as made it so the "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" warning
could not find the inodes to warn about them.

Make all of the inodes in proc visible to generic_shutdown_super,
and fsnotify_sb_delete by using new_inode instead of new_inode_pseudo.
The only functional difference is that new_inode places the inodes
on the sb->s_inodes list.

I wrote a small test program and I can verify that without changes it
can trigger this issue, and by replacing new_inode_pseudo with
new_inode the issues goes away.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/000000000000d788c905a7dfa3f4@google.com
Reported-by: syzbot+7d2debdcdb3cb93c1e5e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: 0097875bd415 ("proc: Implement /proc/thread-self to point at the directory of the current thread")
Fixes: 021ada7dff22 ("procfs: switch /proc/self away from proc_dir_entry")
Fixes: 51f0885e5415 ("vfs,proc: guarantee unique inodes in /proc")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 9d78edea 18-May-2020 Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>

proc: proc_pid_ns takes super_block as an argument

syzbot found that

touch /proc/testfile

causes NULL pointer dereference at tomoyo_get_local_path()
because inode of the dentry is NULL.

Before c59f415a7cb6, Tomoyo received pid_ns from proc's s_fs_info
directly. Since proc_pid_ns() can only work with inode, using it in
the tomoyo_get_local_path() was wrong.

To avoid creating more functions for getting proc_ns, change the
argument type of the proc_pid_ns() function. Then, Tomoyo can use
the existing super_block to get pid_ns.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/0000000000002f0c7505a5b0e04c@google.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200518180738.2939611-1-gladkov.alexey@gmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+c1af344512918c61362c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: c59f415a7cb6 ("Use proc_pid_ns() to get pid_namespace from the proc superblock")
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# fa10fed3 19-Apr-2020 Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>

proc: allow to mount many instances of proc in one pid namespace

This patch allows to have multiple procfs instances inside the
same pid namespace. The aim here is lightweight sandboxes, and to allow
that we have to modernize procfs internals.

1) The main aim of this work is to have on embedded systems one
supervisor for apps. Right now we have some lightweight sandbox support,
however if we create pid namespacess we have to manages all the
processes inside too, where our goal is to be able to run a bunch of
apps each one inside its own mount namespace without being able to
notice each other. We only want to use mount namespaces, and we want
procfs to behave more like a real mount point.

2) Linux Security Modules have multiple ptrace paths inside some
subsystems, however inside procfs, the implementation does not guarantee
that the ptrace() check which triggers the security_ptrace_check() hook
will always run. We have the 'hidepid' mount option that can be used to
force the ptrace_may_access() check inside has_pid_permissions() to run.
The problem is that 'hidepid' is per pid namespace and not attached to
the mount point, any remount or modification of 'hidepid' will propagate
to all other procfs mounts.

This also does not allow to support Yama LSM easily in desktop and user
sessions. Yama ptrace scope which restricts ptrace and some other
syscalls to be allowed only on inferiors, can be updated to have a
per-task context, where the context will be inherited during fork(),
clone() and preserved across execve(). If we support multiple private
procfs instances, then we may force the ptrace_may_access() on
/proc/<pids>/ to always run inside that new procfs instances. This will
allow to specifiy on user sessions if we should populate procfs with
pids that the user can ptrace or not.

By using Yama ptrace scope, some restricted users will only be able to see
inferiors inside /proc, they won't even be able to see their other
processes. Some software like Chromium, Firefox's crash handler, Wine
and others are already using Yama to restrict which processes can be
ptracable. With this change this will give the possibility to restrict
/proc/<pids>/ but more importantly this will give desktop users a
generic and usuable way to specifiy which users should see all processes
and which users can not.

Side notes:
* This covers the lack of seccomp where it is not able to parse
arguments, it is easy to install a seccomp filter on direct syscalls
that operate on pids, however /proc/<pid>/ is a Linux ABI using
filesystem syscalls. With this change LSMs should be able to analyze
open/read/write/close...

In the new patch set version I removed the 'newinstance' option
as suggested by Eric W. Biederman.

Selftest has been added to verify new behavior.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>


# 756ca74c 05-Mar-2019 Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>

fs/proc/self.c: code cleanup for proc_setup_self()

Remove unnecessary ERR_PTR()/PTR_ERR() cast in proc_setup_self().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190124030150.8472-1-cgxu519@gmx.com
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 76f668be 15-May-2018 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

proc: introduce a proc_pid_ns helper

Factor out retrieving the per-sb pid namespaces from the sb private data
into an easier to understand helper.

Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# efb1a57d 06-Feb-2018 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

fs/proc: use __ro_after_init

/proc/self inode numbers, value of proc_inode_cache and st_nlink of
/proc/$TGID are fixed constants.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180103184707.GA31849@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# e3912ac3 06-Feb-2018 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

proc: use %u for pid printing and slightly less stack

PROC_NUMBUF is 13 which is enough for "negative int + \n + \0".

However PIDs and TGIDs are never negative and newline is not a concern,
so use just 10 per integer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171120203005.GA27743@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# dfeef688 09-Dec-2016 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

vfs: remove ".readlink = generic_readlink" assignments

If .readlink == NULL implies generic_readlink().

Generated by:

to_del="\.readlink.*=.*generic_readlink"
for i in `git grep -l $to_del`; do sed -i "/$to_del"/d $i; done

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# 2a07a1f5 09-Dec-2016 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

proc/self: use generic_readlink

The /proc/self and /proc/self-thread symlinks have separate but identical
functionality for reading and following. This cleanup utilizes
generic_readlink to remove the duplication.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>


# 078cd827 14-Sep-2016 Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>

fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps

CURRENT_TIME macro is not appropriate for filesystems as it
doesn't use the right granularity for filesystem timestamps.
Use current_time() instead.

CURRENT_TIME is also not y2038 safe.

This is also in preparation for the patch that transitions
vfs timestamps to use 64 bit time and hence make them
y2038 safe. As part of the effort current_time() will be
extended to do range checks. Hence, it is necessary for all
file system timestamps to use current_time(). Also,
current_time() will be transitioned along with vfs to be
y2038 safe.

Note that whenever a single call to current_time() is used
to change timestamps in different inodes, it is because they
share the same time granularity.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5955102c 22-Jan-2016 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

wrappers for ->i_mutex access

parallel to mutex_{lock,unlock,trylock,is_locked,lock_nested},
inode_foo(inode) being mutex_foo(&inode->i_mutex).

Please, use those for access to ->i_mutex; over the coming cycle
->i_mutex will become rwsem, with ->lookup() done with it held
only shared.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# fceef393 29-Dec-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

switch ->get_link() to delayed_call, kill ->put_link()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 1a384eaa 17-Nov-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

teach proc_self_get_link()/proc_thread_self_get_link() to work in RCU mode

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6b255391 17-Nov-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

replace ->follow_link() with new method that could stay in RCU mode

new method: ->get_link(); replacement of ->follow_link(). The differences
are:
* inode and dentry are passed separately
* might be called both in RCU and non-RCU mode;
the former is indicated by passing it a NULL dentry.
* when called that way it isn't allowed to block
and should return ERR_PTR(-ECHILD) if it needs to be called
in non-RCU mode.

It's a flagday change - the old method is gone, all in-tree instances
converted. Conversion isn't hard; said that, so far very few instances
do not immediately bail out when called in RCU mode. That'll change
in the next commits.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 6e77137b 02-May-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

don't pass nameidata to ->follow_link()

its only use is getting passed to nd_jump_link(), which can obtain
it from current->nameidata

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 680baacb 02-May-2015 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new ->follow_link() and ->put_link() calling conventions

a) instead of storing the symlink body (via nd_set_link()) and returning
an opaque pointer later passed to ->put_link(), ->follow_link() _stores_
that opaque pointer (into void * passed by address by caller) and returns
the symlink body. Returning ERR_PTR() on error, NULL on jump (procfs magic
symlinks) and pointer to symlink body for normal symlinks. Stored pointer
is ignored in all cases except the last one.

Storing NULL for opaque pointer (or not storing it at all) means no call
of ->put_link().

b) the body used to be passed to ->put_link() implicitly (via nameidata).
Now only the opaque pointer is. In the cases when we used the symlink body
to free stuff, ->follow_link() now should store it as opaque pointer in addition
to returning it.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 2b0143b5 17-Mar-2015 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

VFS: normal filesystems (and lustre): d_inode() annotations

that's the bulk of filesystem drivers dealing with inodes of their own

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 5d826c84 14-Mar-2014 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: readlink_copy()

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 87dc800b 16-Sep-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

new helper: kfree_put_link()

duplicated to hell and back...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0d01ff25 11-Apr-2013 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Include missing linux/slab.h inclusions

Include missing linux/slab.h inclusions where the source file is currently
expecting to get kmalloc() and co. through linux/proc_fs.h.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
cc: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 021ada7d 29-Mar-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

procfs: switch /proc/self away from proc_dir_entry

Just have it pinned in dcache all along and let procfs ->kill_sb()
drop it before kill_anon_super().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 0ecc833b 28-Mar-2013 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

mode_t, whack-a-mole at 11...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# e656d8a6 10-Jul-2010 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

procfs: Use the proc generic infrastructure for proc/self.

I had visions at one point of splitting proc into two filesystems. If
that had happened proc/self being the the part of proc that actually deals
with pids would have been a nice cleanup. As it is proc/self requires
a lot of unnecessary infrastructure for a single file.

The only user visible change is that a mounted /proc for a pid namespace
that is dead now shows a broken proc symlink, instead of being completely
invisible. I don't think anyone will notice or care.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>