linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] files: rcu free files

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Date:   Thu, 10 Dec 2020 22:54:05 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...ntu.com>
Cc:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Jann Horn <jann@...jh.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] files: rcu free files_struct

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:30:24PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> (requiring btf), i.e. security_file_open, then follow
> file->f_inode->i_sb->s_type->s_magic. If we change the say struct
> super_block I'd expect these bpf programs to break.

To break they would need to have compiled in the first place;
->s_type is struct file_system_type and it contains no ->s_magic
(nor would it be possible, really - ->s_magic can vary between
filesystems that *do* share ->s_type).