Re: commit 0790303ec869 leads to cpu stall without CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS=y

Jan Kara
2024-12-10T11:20:32Z

On Mon 09-12-24 17:23:24, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 9, 2024 at 1:26 PM Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon 09-12-24 13:11:04, Jan Kara wrote:
> > > > Then I took a closer look at the function called in the problematic code
> > > > and noticed that fsnotify_file_area_perm(), is a NOOP when
> > > > CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS is not set (which was the case in my
> > > > .config). This also explains why this was not found before, as
> > > > distributional .config file have this option enabled. Setting the option
> > > > to y solves the issue, too
> > >
> > > Well, I agree with you on all the points but the real question is, how come
> > > the test FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM(file->f_mode) was true on our kernel when you
> > > clearly don't run HSM software, even more so with
> > > CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS disabled. That's the real cause of this
> > > problem. Something fishy is going on here... checking...
> > >
> > > Ah, because I've botched out file_set_fsnotify_mode() in case
> > > CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS is disabled. This should fix the
> > > problem:
> > >
> > > index 1a9ef8f6784d..778a88fcfddc 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> > > @@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ static inline int fsnotify_open_perm(struct file *file)
> > > #else
> > > static inline void file_set_fsnotify_mode(struct file *file)
> > > {
> > > + file->f_mode |= FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM;
> > > }
> > >
> > > I'm going to test this with CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS disabled and
> > > push out a fixed version. Thanks again for the report and analysis!
> >
> > So this was not enough, What we need is:
> > index 1a9ef8f6784d..778a88fcfddc 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
> > @@ -215,6 +215,10 @@ static inline int fsnotify_open_perm(struct file *file)
> > #else
> > static inline void file_set_fsnotify_mode(struct file *file)
> > {
> > + /* Is it a file opened by fanotify? */
> > + if (FMODE_FSNOTIFY_NONE(file->f_mode))
> > + return;
> > + file->f_mode |= FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM;
> > }
> >
> > This passes testing for me so I've pushed it out and the next linux-next
> > build should have this fix.
>
> This fix is not obvious to the code reviewer (especially when that is
> reviewer Linus...)
> Perhaps it would be safer and less hidden to do:
>
> --- a/include/linux/fs.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fs.h
> @@ -211,11 +211,16 @@ typedef int (dio_iodone_t)(struct kiocb *iocb,
> loff_t offset,
>
> #define FMODE_FSNOTIFY_NONE(mode) \
> ((mode & FMODE_FSNOTIFY_MASK) == FMODE_NONOTIFY)
> +#ifdef CONFIG_FANOTIFY_ACCESS_PERMISSIONS
> #define FMODE_FSNOTIFY_PERM(mode) \
> ((mode & FMODE_FSNOTIFY_MASK) == 0 || \
> (mode & FMODE_FSNOTIFY_MASK) == (FMODE_NONOTIFY | FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM))
> #define FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM(mode) \
> ((mode & FMODE_FSNOTIFY_MASK) == 0)
> +#else
> +#define FMODE_FSNOTIFY_PERM(mode) 0
> +#define FMODE_FSNOTIFY_HSM(mode) 0
> +#endif

I agree this is a nicer way to achieve the same. Updated, tested & pushed
out.