| Message ID | 20180717190906.31073-1-mfasheh@suse.de (mailing list archive) |
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On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:09:04PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > Hi Al, > > The following patches fix a couple of issues with the permission check > we do in vfs_dedupe_file_range(). I sent them out for a few times now, > a changelog is attached. If they look ok to you, I'd appreciate them > being pushed upstream. > > You can get them from git if you like: > > git pull https://github.com/markfasheh/linux dedupe-perms > > I also have a set of patches against 4.17 if you prefer. The code and > testing are identical: > > git pull https://github.com/markfasheh/linux dedupe-perms-v4.17 > > > The first patch expands our check to allow dedupe of a file if the > user owns it or otherwise would be allowed to write to it. > > Current behavior is that we'll allow dedupe only if: > > - the user is an admin (root) > - the user has the file open for write > > This makes it impossible for a user to dedupe their own file set > unless they do it as root, or ensure that all files have write > permission. There's a couple of duperemove bugs open for this: > > https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove/issues/129 > https://github.com/markfasheh/duperemove/issues/86 > > The other problem we have is also related to forcing the user to open > target files for write - A process trying to exec a file currently > being deduped gets ETXTBUSY. The answer (as above) is to allow them to > open the targets ro - root can already do this. There was a patch from > Adam Borowski to fix this back in 2016: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/17/130 > > which I have incorporated into my changes. > > > The 2nd patch fixes our return code for permission denied to be > EPERM. For some reason we're returning EINVAL - I think that's > probably my fault. At any rate, we need to be returning something > descriptive of the actual problem, otherwise callers see EINVAL and > can't really make a valid determination of what's gone wrong. > > This has also popped up in duperemove, mostly in the form of cryptic > error messages. Because this is a code returned to userspace, I did > check the other users of extent-same that I could find. Both 'bees' > and 'rust-btrfs' do the same as duperemove and simply report the error > (as they should). > > Please apply. > > Thanks, > --Mark > > Changes from V3 to V4: > - Add a patch (below) to ioctl_fideduperange.2 explaining our > changes. I will send this patch once the kernel update is > accepted. Thanks to Darrick Wong for this suggestion. > - V3 discussion: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg79135.html > > Changes from V2 to V3: > - Return bool from allow_file_dedupe > - V2 discussion: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-btrfs/msg78421.html > > Changes from V1 to V2: > - Add inode_permission check as suggested by Adam Borowski > - V1 discussion: https://marc.info/?l=linux-xfs&m=152606684017965&w=2 > > > From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> > > [PATCH] ioctl_fideduperange.2: clarify permission requirements > > dedupe permission checks were recently relaxed - update our man page to > reflect those changes. > > Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> > --- > man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 8 +++++--- Mmm, man page update, thank you for editing the documentation too! Please cc linux-api and Michael Kerrisk so this can go upstream. > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 > index 84d20a276..7dea0323d 100644 > --- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 > +++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 > @@ -105,9 +105,11 @@ The field > must be zero. > During the call, > .IR src_fd > -must be open for reading and > +must be open for reading. > .IR dest_fd > -must be open for writing. > +can be open for writing, or reading. If Manpages usually start each new sentence on its own line (though I defer to mkerrisk on that). > +.IR dest_fd > +is open for reading, the user should be have write access to the file. "...the user must have write access..." > The combined size of the struct > .IR file_dedupe_range > and the struct > @@ -185,8 +187,8 @@ This can appear if the filesystem does not support deduplicating either file > descriptor, or if either file descriptor refers to special inodes. > .TP > .B EPERM > +This will be returned if the user lacks permission to dedupe the file referenced by > .IR dest_fd > -is immutable. (Did the period fall off the end of the sentence here? I am bad at reading manpage markup...) --D > .TP > .B ETXTBSY > One of the files is a swap file. > -- > 2.15.1 > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:48:18PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:09:04PM -0700, Mark Fasheh wrote: > > From: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> > > > > [PATCH] ioctl_fideduperange.2: clarify permission requirements > > > > dedupe permission checks were recently relaxed - update our man page to > > reflect those changes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> > > --- > > man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 | 8 +++++--- > > Mmm, man page update, thank you for editing the documentation too! No problem, thanks for suggesting I do it. > Please cc linux-api and Michael Kerrisk so this can go upstream. Will do. The changes you point out below all look good to me so I'll incorporate them and send an updated version to the appropriate folks. Thanks --Mark
diff --git a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 index 84d20a276..7dea0323d 100644 --- a/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 +++ b/man2/ioctl_fideduperange.2 @@ -105,9 +105,11 @@ The field must be zero. During the call, .IR src_fd -must be open for reading and +must be open for reading. .IR dest_fd -must be open for writing. +can be open for writing, or reading. If +.IR dest_fd +is open for reading, the user should be have write access to the file. The combined size of the struct .IR file_dedupe_range and the struct @@ -185,8 +187,8 @@ This can appear if the filesystem does not support deduplicating either file descriptor, or if either file descriptor refers to special inodes. .TP .B EPERM +This will be returned if the user lacks permission to dedupe the file referenced by .IR dest_fd -is immutable. .TP .B ETXTBSY One of the files is a swap file.