remove the unconditional acquisition of Giant for extended attribute related
operations. If the file system is set as being MP safe and debug.mpsafevfs is
1, do not pickup Giant.
Mark the following system calls as being MP safe so we no longer pickup Giant
in the system call handler:
o extattrctl
o extattr_set_file
o extattr_get_file
o extattr_delete_file
o extattr_set_fd
o extattr_get_fd
o extattr_delete_fd
o extattr_set_link
o extattr_get_link
o extattr_delete_link
o extattr_list_file
o extattr_list_link
o extattr_list_fd
-Pass MPSAFE flags to namei(9) lookup and introduce vfslocked variable which
will keep track of any Giant acquisitions.
-Wrap any fd operations which manipulate vnodes in VFS_{UN}LOCK_GIANT
-Drop VFS_ASSERT_GIANT into function which operate on vnodes to ensure that
we are sufficiently protected.
I've tested these changes with various TrustedBSD MAC policies which use
extended attribute a lot on SMP and UP systems (thanks to Scott Long for
making some SMP hardware available to me for testing).
Discussed with: jeff
Requested by: jhb, rwatson
links and the execution of ELF binaries. Two problems were found:
1) The link path wasn't tagged as being MP safe and thus was not properly
protected.
2) The ELF interpreter vnode wasnt being locked in namei(9) and thus was
insufficiently protected.
This commit makes the following changes:
-Sets the MPSAFE flag in NDINIT for symbolic link paths
-Sets the MPSAFE flag in NDINIT and introduce a vfslocked variable which
will be used to instruct VFS_UNLOCK_GIANT to unlock Giant if it has been
picked up.
-Drop in an assertion into vfs_lookup which ensures that if the MPSAFE
flag is NOT set, that we have picked up giant. If not panic (if WITNESS
compiled into the kernel). This should help us find conditions where vnode
operations are in-sufficiently protected.
This is a RELENG_6 candidate.
Discussed with: jeff
MFC after: 4 days
used to ensure that we weren't exiting the syscall with a lock still
held. This wasn't safe, however, because we'd already executed a vput()
and on a loaded system the vnode may have been free'd by the time we
assert. This functionality is also handled by the td_locks assert in
userret, which doesn't tell you what the syscall was, but will at least
panic before you deadlock.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
Discovred by: Peter Holm
Approved by: re (blanket vfs)
I introduce a very small race here (some file system can be mounted or
unmounted between 'count' calculation and file systems list creation),
but it is harmless.
Found by: FreeBSD Kernel Stress Test Suite: http://www.holm.cc/stress/
Reported by: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
It can be used to panic the kernel by giving too big value.
Fix it by moving allocation and size verification into kern_getfsstat().
This even simplifies kern_getfsstat() consumers, but destroys symmetry -
memory is allocated inside kern_getfsstat(), but has to be freed by the
caller.
Found by: FreeBSD Kernel Stress Test Suite: http://www.holm.cc/stress/
Reported by: Peter Holm <peter@holm.cc>
and extend its functionality:
value policy
0 show all mount-points without any restrictions
1 show only mount-points below jail's chroot and show only part of the
mount-point's path (if jail's chroot directory is /jails/foo and
mount-point is /jails/foo/usr/home only /usr/home will be shown)
2 show only mount-point where jail's chroot directory is placed.
Default value is 2.
Discussed with: rwatson
so do not duplicate the code in cvtstatfs().
Note, that we now need to clear fsid in freebsd4_getfsstat().
This moves all security related checks from functions like cvtstatfs()
and will allow to add more security related stuff (like statfs(2), etc.
protection for jails) a bit easier.
structure in the struct pointed to by the 3rd argument for IPC_STAT and
get rid of the 4th argument. The old way returned a pointer into the
kernel array that the calling function would then access afterwards
without holding the appropriate locks and doing non-lock-safe things like
copyout() with the data anyways. This change removes that unsafeness and
resulting race conditions as well as simplifying the interface.
- Implement kern_foo wrappers for stat(), lstat(), fstat(), statfs(),
fstatfs(), and fhstatfs(). Use these wrappers to cut out a lot of
code duplication for freebsd4 and netbsd compatability system calls.
- Add a new lookup function kern_alternate_path() that looks up a filename
under an alternate prefix and determines which filename should be used.
This is basically a more general version of linux_emul_convpath() that
can be shared by all the ABIs thus allowing for further reduction of
code duplication.
tond and not fromnd. This could lead us to leak Giant, or unlock it
twice, depending on the filesystems involved. renames within a single
filesystem would not have caused any problems.
Sponsored by: Isilon Systems, Inc.
I'm not sure why a credential was added to these in the first place, it is
not used anywhere and it doesn't make much sense:
The credentials for syncing a file (ability to write to the
file) should be checked at the system call level.
Credentials for syncing one or more filesystems ("none")
should be checked at the system call level as well.
If the filesystem implementation needs a particular credential
to carry out the syncing it would logically have to the
cached mount credential, or a credential cached along with
any delayed write data.
Discussed with: rwatson
Use this in all the places where sleeping with the lock held is not
an issue.
The distinction will become significant once we finalize the exact
lock-type to use for this kind of case.
somewhat clearer, but more importantly allows for a consistent naming
scheme for suser_cred flags.
The old name is still defined, but will be removed in a few days (unless I
hear any complaints...)
Discussed with: rwatson, scottl
Requested by: jhb
This is to allow filesystems to decide based on the passed thread
which vnode to return.
Several filesystems used curthread, they now use the passed thread.
older API to list attributes on a file (zero-length attribute name)
to function. extattr_list_*() are now the only available APIs to
use when listing attributes.
