linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	"linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org" <linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org>,
	Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org, Linux MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/3] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating block-map-sealed file ranges
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 13:25:26 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170816102526.kksbsvcr5cqcf35k@node.shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPcyv4gmyFugKwMJCVwC9wFmQ8TL4TbHsa0p2Pqg2a6LziRHVw@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 10:11:27AM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > We had issues before with user-imposed ETXTBSY. See MAP_DENYWRITE.
> >
> > Are we sure it won't a source of denial-of-service attacks?
> 
> I believe MAP_DENYWRITE allowed any application with read access to be
> able to deny writes which is obviously problematic. MAP_DIRECT is
> different. You need write access to the file so you can already
> destroy data that another application might depend on, and this only
> blocks allocation and reflink.
> 
> However, I'm not opposed to adding more safety around this. I think we
> can address this concern with an fcntl seal as Dave suggests, but the
> seal only applies to the 'struct file' instance and only gates whether
> MAP_DIRECT is allowed on that file. The act of setting
> F_MAY_SEAL_IOMAP requires CAP_IMMUTABLE, but MAP_DIRECT does not. This
> allows the 'permission to mmap(MAP_DIRECT)' to be passed around with
> an open file descriptor.

Sounds like a good approach to me.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov

--
To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in
the body to majordomo@kvack.org.  For more info on Linux MM,
see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ .
Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@kvack.org"> email@kvack.org </a>

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-16 10:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-15  6:12 [PATCH v4 0/3] MAP_DIRECT and block-map sealed files Dan Williams
2017-08-15  6:12 ` [PATCH v4 1/3] fs, xfs: introduce S_IOMAP_SEALED Dan Williams
2017-08-15  6:12 ` [PATCH v4 2/3] mm: introduce MAP_VALIDATE a mechanism for adding new mmap flags Dan Williams
2017-08-15 12:27   ` Jan Kara
2017-08-15 16:24     ` Dan Williams
2017-09-17  3:44     ` Dan Williams
2017-09-17 17:39       ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-09-18  9:31         ` Jan Kara
2017-09-18 15:47           ` Dan Williams
2017-09-18  9:26       ` Jan Kara
2017-08-15 16:28   ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-15 22:31     ` Dan Williams
2017-08-17  8:06   ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-15  6:12 ` [PATCH v4 3/3] fs, xfs: introduce MAP_DIRECT for creating block-map-sealed file ranges Dan Williams
2017-08-15  9:18   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2017-08-15 17:11     ` Dan Williams
2017-08-16 10:25       ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2017-08-15 12:42   ` Jan Kara
2017-08-15 16:29     ` Dan Williams
2017-08-16  1:15       ` Dan Williams
2017-08-17  8:49   ` kbuild test robot
2017-08-15  9:01 ` [PATCH v4 0/3] MAP_DIRECT and block-map sealed files Dave Chinner

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20170816102526.kksbsvcr5cqcf35k@node.shutemov.name \
    --to=kirill@shutemov.name \
    --cc=dan.j.williams@intel.com \
    --cc=darrick.wong@oracle.com \
    --cc=david@fromorbit.com \
    --cc=hch@lst.de \
    --cc=jack@suse.cz \
    --cc=jmoyer@redhat.com \
    --cc=linux-api@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=linux-mm@kvack.org \
    --cc=linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org \
    --cc=linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=luto@kernel.org \
    --cc=ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com \
    --cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).