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authorRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-02-15 02:15:32 +0000
committerRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>1999-02-15 02:15:32 +0000
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@@ -8,3 +8,169 @@ Thu Oct 20 23:44:22 1994 Theodore Y. Ts'o (tytso@rt-11)
* fcntl.c (sys_fcntl): Add more of a security check to the
F_SETOWN fcntl().
+[Tons of changes missed, indeed. This list is worth restarting since
+at least some fixes WILL break third-party filesystems. Sorry, but
+there was no other way to fix rmdir/rename deadlock, for one.]
+
+Wed Dec 2 (Linus, fill the rest, please)
+
+ * namei.c (do_rmdir) and rmdir method in filesystems:
+ Locking of directory we remove was taken to VFS.
+ See comments in do_rmdir(). Unfixed filesystems
+ will bloody likely deadlock in rmdir().
+
+Thu Dec 3 17:25:31 1998 Al Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
+
+ * namei.c (do_rmdir):
+ Reject non-directories here.
+ Two (probably) obsolete checks moved here too: we fail if
+ the directory we remove is the same as parent (BUG: we
+ serve mountpoints later) or if it lives on a different
+ device.
+ * sysv/namei.c (sysv_rmdir): See sysv/CHANGES
+
+Fri Dec 4 00:54:12 1998 AV
+
+ * namei.c (check_sticky): New function check_sticky(dir, inode).
+ If dir is sticky check whether we can unlink/rmdir/rename
+ the inode. Returns 1 if we can't. If dir isn't sticky -
+ return 0 (i.e. no objections). Some filesystems require
+ suser() here; some are fine with CAP_FOWNER. The later
+ seems more reasonable.
+ * namei.c (do_rmdir):
+ Moved the check for sticky bit here.
+ * affs/{inode,namei}.c:
+ All AFFS directories have sticky semantics (i.e. non-owner
+ having write permisssions on directory can unlink/rmdir/rename
+ only the files he owns), but AFFS didn't set S_ISVTX on them.
+ Fixed. NB: maybe this behaviour should be controlled by mount
+ option. Obvious values being 'sticky' (current behaviour),
+ 'nonsticky' (normal behaviour) and maybe some play on 'D'
+ permissions bit. FIXME.
+ * qnx4/namei.c (qnx4_rmdir):
+ Plugged inode leak.
+ * ufs/namei.c (ufs_rmdir):
+ Changed handling of busy directory to new scheme.
+
+Fri Dec 4 10:30:58 1998 AV
+
+ * namei.c (VFS_rmdir): New function. It gets inode of the parent and
+ dentry of the victim, does all checks and applies fs-specific
+ rmdir() method. It should be called with semaphores down
+ on both the victim and its parent and with bumped d_count on
+ victim (see comments in do_rmdir).
+ * include/linux/fs.h: Added VFS_rmdir
+ * kernel/ksyms.c: Added VFS_rmdir to export list (for NFSD).
+ * nfsd/vfs.c: Fixed rmdir handling.
+
+Tue Dec 8 05:55:08 1998 AV
+ * vfat/namei.c: Fixed the bug in vfat_rename() introduced in the
+ first round of rmdir fixes.
+
+Wed Dec 9 03:06:10 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (do_rename): part of fs-independent checks had been moved
+ here (sticky bit handling, type mismatches). Cases of
+ the source or target being append-only or immutable also went
+ here - if we check it for parent we could as well do it for
+ children.
+ * {affs,ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
+ Removed tests that went to VFS, it simplified the code big way.
+ Fixed a race in check for empty target - we should check for
+ extra owners _before_ checking for emptiness, not after it.
+ * {ext2,ufs}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
+ VERY nasty bug shot: if somebody mkdired /tmp/cca01234, went
+ there, rmdired '.', waited till somebody created a file with
+ the same name and said mv . /tmp/goodbye_sticky_bit... Well,
+ goodbye sticky bit. Down, not across!
+ * {minix,sysv}/namei.c (do_*_rename):
+ Incorrect check for other owners (i_count instead of d_count).
+ Fixed.
+ * vfat: Looks like the changes above fixed a bug in VFAT - this beast
+ used to allow renaming file over directory and vice versa.
+
+Wed Dec 9 08:00:27 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (VFS_rename): New function. It gets the same arguments as
+ ->rename() method, does all checks and applies fs-specific
+ rmdir() method. It should be called with semaphores down
+ on both parents.
+ * include/linux/fs.h: Added VFS_rename
+ * kernel/ksyms.c: Added VFS_rename to export list (for NFSD).
+ * nfsd/vfs.c: Changed rename handling (switched to VFS_rename).
+
+Wed Dec 9 18:16:27 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (do_unlink): handling of sticky bit went here.
+ * {affs,ext2,minix,qnx4,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (*_unlink):
+ removed handling of sticky bit.
+ * qnx4/namei.c (qnx4_unlink):
+ Yet another inode leak. Fixed.
+
+Thu Dec 10 04:55:26 1998 AV
+ * {ext2,minix,sysv,ufs}/namei.c (*_mknod):
+ removed meaningless code handling attempts to mknod symlinks
+ and directories. VFS protects us from _that_ and if this code
+ would ever be called we'ld get a filesystem corruption.
+
+Thu Dec 10 16:58:50 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (do_rename): Fixed dentry leak that had been introduced by
+ the first round of rmdir fixes.
+
+Fri Dec 11 14:57:17 1998 AV
+ * msdos/namei.c (msdos_rmdir): Fixed race in emptiness check.
+
+Sat Dec 12 19:59:57 1998 AV
+ * msdos/namei.c (msdos_mkdir): Fixed the evil breakage introduced by
+ the changes of rmdir locking scheme. We shouldn't call
+ msdos_rmdir from there.
+
+Sun Dec 13 02:05:16 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (do_unlink):
+ Added new function: vfs_unlink, with the same arguments as
+ ->unlink() method.
+ * kernel/ksyms.c: Made it exported.
+ * include/linux/fs.h: Added prototype.
+ * nfsd/vfs.c: Changed handling of unlink (switched to vfs_unlink)
+ * {ext2,ufs}/namei.c (*_unlink): moved handling of imm./append-only to
+ VFS.
+
+Wed Dec 16 06:10:04 1998 AV
+ * namei.c (may_create, may_delete): New inline functions.
+ They check whether creation/deletion is permitted.
+ Checks from other places of namei.c went there.
+ Looks like originally I misread permission-related stuff
+ both here and in nfsd. In particular, checks for
+ immutable are done in permission(). D'oh.
+ * unlink on directory should return -EISDIR, not -EPERM as it used to
+ do. Fixed.
+ * rmdir of immutable/append-only directory shouldn't be allowed. Fixed.
+
+Remains unfixed:
+ * UMSDOS_rename is broken. Call it with the dest. existing and being an
+ empty directory and you've got EBUSY. At least it doesn't do
+ any harm, so that will wait several days till rename cleanup.
+ Sigh... It will wait a bit more. Problems with fat-derived
+ filesystems are much worse than I thought. Idea of changing
+ inode under dentry is broken by design - guess where the
+ semaphore sits, for one.
+ * umsdos: weird. rename() shouldn't return -EEXIST. BTW, manpage
+ for rename(2) is obviously bogus - it mentions EEXIST and
+ on the next line (correctly) says that EINVAL should be
+ returned. Under the same conditions.
+ * rename's handling of races is, erm, not optimal. Looks like I know
+ what to do, but this thing needs some more cleanup - we can
+ take care of almost all races in VFS and be much more graceful
+ wrt locking. Moreover, it would give strong lookup atomicity.
+ But it's a lot of changes to lookup and dcache code, so it will
+ go after the fs drivers' cleanup.
+ * hfs allows mknod. Only for regular files ;-/ IMHO it's bogus.
+ * affs allows HARD links to directories. VFS is, to put it politely,
+ not too ready to cope with _that_. And I'm not sure it should
+ be - looks like they are pretty much similar to symlinks.
+ * truncate doesn't give a damn about IO errors and disk overflows (on
+ braindead filesystems). I've submitted a patch to Linus, but
+ looks like it wasn't applied.
+ * msdos: shouldn't we treat SYS as IMMUTABLE? Makes sense, IMHO.
+ * minix, qnx and sysv do NOT allow to mkdir sticky directories.
+ * {minix,sysv}/namei.c (do_{minix,syv}_{rename,unlink}):
+ Stuff related to retries still needs cleanup/fixing.
+ Looks like I've found an extremely low-probability race
+ there...