linux-ext4 - [PATCH v9 29/31] ext4: Send notifications on error

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20211025192746.66445-30-krisman@collabora.com>
Date:   Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:27:44 -0300
From:   Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
To:     amir73il@...il.com, jack@...e.com
Cc:     djwong@...nel.org, tytso@....edu, david@...morbit.com,
        dhowells@...hat.com, khazhy@...gle.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>,
        kernel@...labora.com
Subject: [PATCH v9 29/31] ext4: Send notifications on error

Send a FS_ERROR message via fsnotify to a userspace monitoring tool
whenever a ext4 error condition is triggered.  This follows the existing
error conditions in ext4, so it is hooked to the ext4_error* functions.

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>

---
Changes since v8:
  - Report always report non-zero errno (Jan, Amir, Ted)
Changes since v6:
  - Report ext4_std_errors agains superblock (jan)
---
 fs/ext4/super.c | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 88d5d274a868..1a766c68a55e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
 #include <linux/part_stat.h>
 #include <linux/kthread.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/fsnotify.h>
 
 #include "ext4.h"
 #include "ext4_extents.h"	/* Needed for trace points definition */
@@ -759,6 +760,8 @@ void __ext4_error(struct super_block *sb, const char *function,
 		       sb->s_id, function, line, current->comm, &vaf);
 		va_end(args);
 	}
+	fsnotify_sb_error(sb, NULL, error ? error : EFSCORRUPTED);
+
 	ext4_handle_error(sb, force_ro, error, 0, block, function, line);
 }
 
@@ -789,6 +792,8 @@ void __ext4_error_inode(struct inode *inode, const char *function,
 			       current->comm, &vaf);
 		va_end(args);
 	}
+	fsnotify_sb_error(inode->i_sb, inode, error ? error : EFSCORRUPTED);
+
 	ext4_handle_error(inode->i_sb, false, error, inode->i_ino, block,
 			  function, line);
 }
@@ -827,6 +832,8 @@ void __ext4_error_file(struct file *file, const char *function,
 			       current->comm, path, &vaf);
 		va_end(args);
 	}
+	fsnotify_sb_error(inode->i_sb, inode, EFSCORRUPTED);
+
 	ext4_handle_error(inode->i_sb, false, EFSCORRUPTED, inode->i_ino, block,
 			  function, line);
 }
@@ -894,6 +901,7 @@ void __ext4_std_error(struct super_block *sb, const char *function,
 		printk(KERN_CRIT "EXT4-fs error (device %s) in %s:%d: %s\n",
 		       sb->s_id, function, line, errstr);
 	}
+	fsnotify_sb_error(sb, NULL, errno ? errno : EFSCORRUPTED);
 
 	ext4_handle_error(sb, false, -errno, 0, 0, function, line);
 }
-- 
2.33.0