Re: [PATCH 1/3] fs_parser: handle parameters that can be empty and don't have a value

Christian Brauner
2024-03-02T11:46:47Z

On Fri, Mar 01, 2024 at 03:45:27PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 04:30:08PM +0000, Luis Henriques wrote:
> >> Currently, only parameters that have the fs_parameter_spec 'type' set to
> >> NULL are handled as 'flag' types. However, parameters that have the
> >> 'fs_param_can_be_empty' flag set and their value is NULL should also be
> >> handled as 'flag' type, as their type is set to 'fs_value_is_flag'.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <lhenriques@suse.de>
> >> ---
> >> fs/fs_parser.c | 3 ++-
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/fs/fs_parser.c b/fs/fs_parser.c
> >> index edb3712dcfa5..53f6cb98a3e0 100644
> >> --- a/fs/fs_parser.c
> >> +++ b/fs/fs_parser.c
> >> @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ int __fs_parse(struct p_log *log,
> >> /* Try to turn the type we were given into the type desired by the
> >> * parameter and give an error if we can't.
> >> */
> >> - if (is_flag(p)) {
> >> + if (is_flag(p) ||
> >> + (!param->string && (p->flags & fs_param_can_be_empty))) {
> >> if (param->type != fs_value_is_flag)
> >> return inval_plog(log, "Unexpected value for '%s'",
> >> param->key);
> >
> > If the parameter was derived from FSCONFIG_SET_STRING in fsconfig() then
> > param->string is guaranteed to not be NULL. So really this is only
> > about:
> >
> > FSCONFIG_SET_FD
> > FSCONFIG_SET_BINARY
> > FSCONFIG_SET_PATH
> > FSCONFIG_SET_PATH_EMPTY
> >
> > and those values being used without a value. What filesystem does this?
> > I don't see any.
> >
> > The tempting thing to do here is to to just remove fs_param_can_be_empty
> > from every helper that isn't fs_param_is_string() until we actually have
> > a filesystem that wants to use any of the above as flags. Will lose a
> > lot of code that isn't currently used.
>
> Right, I find it quite confusing and I may be fixing the issue in the
> wrong place. What I'm seeing with ext4 when I mount a filesystem using
> the option '-o usrjquota' is that fs_parse() will get:
>
> * p->type is set to fs_param_is_string
> ('p' is a struct fs_parameter_spec, ->type is a function)
> * param->type is set to fs_value_is_flag
> ('param' is a struct fs_parameter, ->type is an enum)
>
> This is because ext4 will use the __fsparam macro to set define a
> fs_param_spec as a fs_param_is_string but will also set the
> fs_param_can_be_empty; and the fsconfig() syscall will get that parameter
> as a flag. That's why param->string will be NULL in this case.

Thanks for the details. Let me see if I get this right. So you're saying that
someone is doing:

fsconfig(..., FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "usrjquota", NULL, 0); // [1]

? Is so that is a vital part of the explanation. So please put that in the
commit message.

Then ext4 defines:

fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota),

So [1] gets us:

param->type == fs_value_is_flag
param->string == NULL

Now we enter into
fs_parse()
-> __fs_parse()
-> fs_lookup_key() for @param and that does:

bool want_flag = param->type == fs_value_is_flag;

*negated = false;
for (p = desc; p->name; p++) {
if (strcmp(p->name, name) != 0)
continue;
if (likely(is_flag(p) == want_flag))
return p;
other = p;
}

So we don't have a flag parameter defined so the only real match we get is
@other for:

fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota),

What happens now is that you call p->type == fs_param_is_string() and that
rejects it as bad parameter because param->type == fs_value_is_flag !=
fs_value_is_string as required. So you dont end up getting Opt_userjquota
called with param->string NULL, right? So there's not NULL deref or anything,
right?

You just fail to set usrjquota. Ok, so I think the correct fix is to do
something like the following in ext4:

fsparam_string_empty ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota),
fs_param_flag ("usrjquota", Opt_usrjquota_flag),

and then in the switch you can do:

switch (opt)
case Opt_usrjquota:
// string thing
case Opt_usrjquota_flag:
// flag thing

And I really think we should kill all empty handling for non-string types and
only add that when there's a filesystem that actually needs it.