linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map

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Date:	Fri, 2 Sep 2011 20:37:11 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>,
	containers@...ts.osdl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, Nathan Lynch <ntl@...ox.com>,
	kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com,
	Oren Laadan <orenl@...columbia.edu>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] fs, proc: Introduce the /proc/<pid>/map_files/
 directory v6

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:05 +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> ...
> > > +/*
> > > + * NOTE: The getattr/setattr for both /proc/$pid/map_files and
> > > + * /proc/$pid/fd seems to have share the code, so need to be
> > > + * unified and code duplication eliminated!
> > 
> > Why not do this now?
> 
> There are a couple of reasons. Yesterday I was talking to
> Vasiliy Kulikov about this snippet, so he seems about to send
> you patches related to /proc/$pid/fd update, and after those
> patches will be merged we are to drop code duplication.
> Vasiliy, what the status of the update?

It looks like protecting directories with sensible contents is a nasty
thing.  The problem here is that if the dentry is present in the cache,
->lookup() is not called at all and the permissions can be checked in
fop/dop/iop specific handler (getattr(), readlink(), etc.).  However, it
would be much simplier to hook ->lookup() only.  Otherwise, we have to
define procfs handlers for all operations, which don't call
->d_revalidate().

Is it possible to disable caching dentry for specific files?  It is not
performace critical thing in fd and map_files and it would much simplify
the task.  Creating handlers for all these op handler bloats procfs.

Also I'm not sure what other handlers might reveal dentry presence.
Besides ->getattr() I could find only one thing - ->link() (Cyrill,
AFAICS ->setattr() doesn't reveal files' presence).  Someone more
familiar with vfs than me - please, help to identify all infoleak
sources!


Thank you,

-- 
Vasiliy Kulikov
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