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<title>fix brown paperbag bug in inlined copy_..._iter()</title>
<updated>2017-07-10T11:40:49Z</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
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"copied nothing" == "return 0", not "return full size".

Fixes: aa28de275a24 "iov_iter/hardening: move object size checks to inlined part"
Spotted-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'uaccess-work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2017-07-08T03:39:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2017-07-08T03:39:20Z</published>
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Pull iov_iter hardening from Al Viro:
 "This is the iov_iter/uaccess/hardening pile.

  For one thing, it trims the inline part of copy_to_user/copy_from_user
  to the minimum that *does* need to be inlined - object size checks,
  basically. For another, it sanitizes the checks for iov_iter
  primitives. There are 4 groups of checks: access_ok(), might_fault(),
  object size and KASAN.

   - access_ok() had been verified by whoever had set the iov_iter up.
     However, that has happened in a function far away, so proving that
     there's no path to actual copying bypassing those checks is hard
     and proving that iov_iter has not been buggered in the meanwhile is
     also not pleasant. So we want those redone in actual
     copyin/copyout.

   - might_fault() is better off consolidated - we know whether it needs
     to be checked as soon as we enter iov_iter primitive and observe
     the iov_iter flavour. No need to wait until the copyin/copyout. The
     call chains are short enough to make sure we won't miss anything -
     in fact, it's more robust that way, since there are cases where we
     do e.g. forced fault-in before getting to copyin/copyout. It's not
     quite what we need to check (in particular, combination of
     iovec-backed and set_fs(KERNEL_DS) is almost certainly a bug, not a
     cause to skip checks), but that's for later series. For now let's
     keep might_fault().

   - KASAN checks belong in copyin/copyout - at the same level where
     other iov_iter flavours would've hit them in memcpy().

   - object size checks should apply to *all* iov_iter flavours, not
     just iovec-backed ones.

  There are two groups of primitives - one gets the kernel object
  described as pointer + size (copy_to_iter(), etc.) while another gets
  it as page + offset + size (copy_page_to_iter(), etc.)

  For the first group the checks are best done where we actually have a
  chance to find the object size. In other words, those belong in inline
  wrappers in uio.h, before calling into iov_iter.c. Same kind as we
  have for inlined part of copy_to_user().

  For the second group there is no object to look at - offset in page is
  just a number, it bears no type information. So we do them in the
  common helper called by iov_iter.c primitives of that kind. All it
  currently does is checking that we are not trying to access outside of
  the compound page; eventually we might want to add some sanity checks
  on the page involved.

  So the things we need in copyin/copyout part of iov_iter.c do not
  quite match anything in uaccess.h (we want no zeroing, we *do* want
  access_ok() and KASAN and we want no might_fault() or object size
  checks done on that level). OTOH, these needs are simple enough to
  provide a couple of helpers (static in iov_iter.c) doing just what we
  need..."

* 'uaccess-work.iov_iter' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  iov_iter: saner checks on copyin/copyout
  iov_iter: sanity checks for copy to/from page primitives
  iov_iter/hardening: move object size checks to inlined part
  copy_{to,from}_user(): consolidate object size checks
  copy_{from,to}_user(): move kasan checks and might_fault() out-of-line
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<title>iov_iter/hardening: move object size checks to inlined part</title>
<updated>2017-06-30T02:21:22Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2017-06-30T01:45:10Z</published>
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There we actually have useful information about object sizes.
Note: this patch has them done for all iov_iter flavours.
Right now we do them twice in iovec case, but that'll change
very shortly.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>x86, uaccess: introduce copy_from_iter_flushcache for pmem / cache-bypass operations</title>
<updated>2017-06-09T16:09:56Z</updated>
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<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2017-05-29T19:22:50Z</published>
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The pmem driver has a need to transfer data with a persistent memory
destination and be able to rely on the fact that the destination writes are not
cached. It is sufficient for the writes to be flushed to a cpu-store-buffer
(non-temporal / "movnt" in x86 terms), as we expect userspace to call fsync()
to ensure data-writes have reached a power-fail-safe zone in the platform. The
fsync() triggers a REQ_FUA or REQ_FLUSH to the pmem driver which will turn
around and fence previous writes with an "sfence".

Implement a __copy_from_user_inatomic_flushcache, memcpy_page_flushcache, and
memcpy_flushcache, that guarantee that the destination buffer is not dirty in
the cpu cache on completion. The new copy_from_iter_flushcache and sub-routines
will be used to replace the "pmem api" (include/linux/pmem.h +
arch/x86/include/asm/pmem.h). The availability of copy_from_iter_flushcache()
and memcpy_flushcache() are gated by the CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE
config symbol, and fallback to copy_from_iter_nocache() and plain memcpy()
otherwise.

This is meant to satisfy the concern from Linus that if a driver wants to do
something beyond the normal nocache semantics it should be something private to
that driver [1], and Al's concern that anything uaccess related belongs with
the rest of the uaccess code [2].

The first consumer of this interface is a new 'copy_from_iter' dax operation so
that pmem can inject cache maintenance operations without imposing this
overhead on other dax-capable drivers.

[1]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-January/008364.html
[2]: https://lists.01.org/pipermail/linux-nvdimm/2017-April/009942.html

Cc: &lt;x86@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Jan Kara &lt;jack@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Jeff Moyer &lt;jmoyer@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;mawilcox@microsoft.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>[iov_iter] new privimitive: iov_iter_revert()</title>
<updated>2017-04-02T16:10:47Z</updated>
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<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2017-02-17T23:42:24Z</published>
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opposite to iov_iter_advance(); the caller is responsible for never
using it to move back past the initial position.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-12-16T18:24:44Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-12-16T18:24:44Z</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:

 - more -&gt;d_init() stuff (work.dcache)

 - pathname resolution cleanups (work.namei)

 - a few missing iov_iter primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and
   friends. Either copy the full requested amount, advance the iterator
   and return true, or fail, return false and do _not_ advance the
   iterator. Quite a few open-coded callers converted (and became more
   readable and harder to fuck up that way) (work.iov_iter)

 - several assorted patches, the big one being logfs removal

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  logfs: remove from tree
  vfs: fix put_compat_statfs64() does not handle errors
  namei: fold should_follow_link() with the step into not-followed link
  namei: pass both WALK_GET and WALK_MORE to should_follow_link()
  namei: invert WALK_PUT logics
  namei: shift interpretation of LOOKUP_FOLLOW inside should_follow_link()
  namei: saner calling conventions for mountpoint_last()
  namei.c: get rid of user_path_parent()
  switch getfrag callbacks to ..._full() primitives
  make skb_add_data,{_nocache}() and skb_copy_to_page_nocache() advance only on success
  [iov_iter] new primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and friends
  don't open-code file_inode()
  ceph: switch to use of -&gt;d_init()
  ceph: unify dentry_operations instances
  lustre: switch to use of -&gt;d_init()
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<title>[iov_iter] new primitives - copy_from_iter_full() and friends</title>
<updated>2016-12-05T19:33:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2016-11-02T02:09:04Z</published>
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copy_from_iter_full(), copy_from_iter_full_nocache() and
csum_and_copy_from_iter_full() - counterparts of copy_from_iter()
et.al., advancing iterator only in case of successful full copy
and returning whether it had been successful or not.

Convert some obvious users.  *NOTE* - do not blindly assume that
something is a good candidate for those unless you are sure that
not advancing iov_iter in failure case is the right thing in
this case.  Anything that does short read/short write kind of
stuff (or is in a loop, etc.) is unlikely to be a good one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: decouple READ and WRITE from the block layer ops</title>
<updated>2016-11-01T15:43:26Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-11-01T13:40:11Z</published>
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Move READ and WRITE to kernel.h and don't define them in terms of block
layer ops; they are our generic data direction indicators these days
and have no more resemblance with the block layer ops.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@fb.com&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T20:38:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-10-10T20:38:49Z</published>
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Pull splice fixups from Al Viro:
 "A couple of fixups for interaction of pipe-backed iov_iter with
  O_DIRECT reads + constification of a couple of primitives in uio.h
  missed by previous rounds.

  Kudos to davej - his fuzzing has caught those bugs"

* 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  [btrfs] fix check_direct_IO() for non-iovec iterators
  constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec()
  fix ITER_PIPE interaction with direct_IO
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<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2016-10-10T20:04:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2016-10-10T20:04:49Z</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted misc bits and pieces.

  There are several single-topic branches left after this (rename2
  series from Miklos, current_time series from Deepa Dinamani, xattr
  series from Andreas, uaccess stuff from from me) and I'd prefer to
  send those separately"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (39 commits)
  proc: switch auxv to use of __mem_open()
  hpfs: support FIEMAP
  cifs: get rid of unused arguments of CIFSSMBWrite()
  posix_acl: uapi header split
  posix_acl: xattr representation cleanups
  fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file
  fs/internal.h: add const to ns_dentry_operations declaration
  compat: remove compat_printk()
  fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static
  proc: unsigned file descriptors
  fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors
  fs: compat: remove redundant check of nr_segs
  cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2]
  cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter
  get rid of separate multipage fault-in primitives
  fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities
  fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode
  fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
  ceph: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
  xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
  ...
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