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2013-04-09ecryptfs: close rmmod raceAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2012-07-08eCryptfs: Make all miscdev functions use daemon ptr in file private_dataTyler Hicks
Now that a pointer to a valid struct ecryptfs_daemon is stored in the private_data of an opened /dev/ecryptfs file, the remaining miscdev functions can utilize the pointer rather than looking up the ecryptfs_daemon at the beginning of each operation. The security model of /dev/ecryptfs is simplified a little bit with this patch. Upon opening /dev/ecryptfs, a per-user ecryptfs_daemon is registered. Another daemon cannot be registered for that user until the last file reference is released. During the lifetime of the ecryptfs_daemon, access checks are not performed on the /dev/ecryptfs operations because it is assumed that the application securely handles the opened file descriptor and does not unintentionally leak it to processes that are not trusted. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2012-07-06eCryptfs: Gracefully refuse miscdev file ops on inherited/passed filesTyler Hicks
File operations on /dev/ecryptfs would BUG() when the operations were performed by processes other than the process that originally opened the file. This could happen with open files inherited after fork() or file descriptors passed through IPC mechanisms. Rather than calling BUG(), an error code can be safely returned in most situations. In ecryptfs_miscdev_release(), eCryptfs still needs to handle the release even if the last file reference is being held by a process that didn't originally open the file. ecryptfs_find_daemon_by_euid() will not be successful, so a pointer to the daemon is stored in the file's private_data. The private_data pointer is initialized when the miscdev file is opened and only used when the file is released. https://launchpad.net/bugs/994247 Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2012-07-03eCryptfs: Fix lockdep warning in miscdev operationsTyler Hicks
Don't grab the daemon mutex while holding the message context mutex. Addresses this lockdep warning: ecryptfsd/2141 is trying to acquire lock: (&ecryptfs_msg_ctx_arr[i].mux){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa029c213>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x143/0x470 [ecryptfs] but task is already holding lock: (&(*daemon)->mux){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa029c2ec>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x21c/0x470 [ecryptfs] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&(*daemon)->mux){+.+...}: [<ffffffff810a3b8d>] lock_acquire+0x9d/0x220 [<ffffffff8151c6da>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5a/0x4b0 [<ffffffff8151cc64>] mutex_lock_nested+0x44/0x50 [<ffffffffa029c5d7>] ecryptfs_send_miscdev+0x97/0x120 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa029b744>] ecryptfs_send_message+0x134/0x1e0 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa029a24e>] ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x2fe/0xa80 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa02960f8>] ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x108/0x250 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa0290f80>] ecryptfs_create+0x130/0x250 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffff811963a4>] vfs_create+0xb4/0x120 [<ffffffff81197865>] do_last+0x8c5/0xa10 [<ffffffff811998f9>] path_openat+0xd9/0x460 [<ffffffff81199da2>] do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0 [<ffffffff81187998>] do_sys_open+0xf8/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81187a91>] sys_open+0x21/0x30 [<ffffffff81527d69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 (&ecryptfs_msg_ctx_arr[i].mux){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff810a3418>] __lock_acquire+0x1bf8/0x1c50 [<ffffffff810a3b8d>] lock_acquire+0x9d/0x220 [<ffffffff8151c6da>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5a/0x4b0 [<ffffffff8151cc64>] mutex_lock_nested+0x44/0x50 [<ffffffffa029c213>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x143/0x470 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffff811887d3>] vfs_read+0xb3/0x180 [<ffffffff811888ed>] sys_read+0x4d/0x90 [<ffffffff81527d69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
2012-02-28ecryptfs: fix printk format warning for size_tRandy Dunlap
Fix printk format warning (from Linus's suggestion): on i386: fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c:433:38: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'unsigned int' and on x86_64: fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c:433:38: warning: format '%u' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Cc: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gazzang.com> Cc: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-01-25eCryptfs: Replace miscdev read/write magic numbersTyler Hicks
ecryptfs_miscdev_read() and ecryptfs_miscdev_write() contained many magic numbers for specifying packet header field sizes and offsets. This patch defines those values and replaces the magic values. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
2012-01-25eCryptfs: Report errors in writes to /dev/ecryptfsTyler Hicks
Errors in writes to /dev/ecryptfs were being incorrectly reported by returning 0 or the value of the original write count. This patch clears up the return code assignment in error paths. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
2012-01-25eCryptfs: Sanitize write counts of /dev/ecryptfsTyler Hicks
A malicious count value specified when writing to /dev/ecryptfs may result in a a very large kernel memory allocation. This patch peeks at the specified packet payload size, adds that to the size of the packet headers and compares the result with the write count value. The resulting maximum memory allocation size is approximately 532 bytes. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
2010-10-15llseek: automatically add .llseek fopArnd Bergmann
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a .llseek pointer. The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek. New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code relies on calling seek on the device file. The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle. Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window. Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic patch that does all this. ===== begin semantic patch ===== // This adds an llseek= method to all file operations, // as a preparation for making no_llseek the default. // // The rules are // - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open // - use seq_lseek for sequential files // - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos // - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos, // but we still want to allow users to call lseek // @ open1 exists @ identifier nested_open; @@ nested_open(...) { <+... nonseekable_open(...) ...+> } @ open exists@ identifier open_f; identifier i, f; identifier open1.nested_open; @@ int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f) { <+... ( nonseekable_open(...) | nested_open(...) ) ...+> } @ read disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @ identifier read_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ write @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; expression E; identifier func; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { <+... ( *off = E | *off += E | func(..., off, ...) | E = *off ) ...+> } @ write_no_fpos @ identifier write_f; identifier f, p, s, off; type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t; @@ ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off) { ... when != off } @ fops0 @ identifier fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... }; @ has_llseek depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier llseek_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .llseek = llseek_f, ... }; @ has_read depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... }; @ has_write depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... }; @ has_open depends on fops0 @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... }; // use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open //////////////////////////////////////////// @ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = nso, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */ }; @ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier open.open_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .open = open_f, ... +.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */ }; // use seq_lseek for sequential files ///////////////////////////////////// @ seq depends on !has_llseek @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier sr ~= "seq_read"; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = sr, ... +.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */ }; // use default_llseek if there is a readdir /////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier readdir_e; @@ // any other fop is used that changes pos struct file_operations fops = { ... .readdir = readdir_e, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */ }; // use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read.read_f; @@ // read fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */ }; @ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... + .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */ }; // Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// @ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ // write fops use offset struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier write_no_fpos.write_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .write = write_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; identifier read_no_fpos.read_f; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... .read = read_f, ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */ }; @ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @ identifier fops0.fops; @@ struct file_operations fops = { ... +.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */ }; ===== End semantic patch ===== Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-08-27ecryptfs: properly mark init functionsJerome Marchand
Some ecryptfs init functions are not prefixed by __init and thus not freed after initialization. This patch saved about 1kB in ecryptfs module. Signed-off-by: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2009-04-22eCryptfs: NULL pointer dereference in ecryptfs_send_miscdev()Tyler Hicks
If data is NULL, msg_ctx->msg is set to NULL and then dereferenced afterwards. ecryptfs_send_raw_message() is the only place that ecryptfs_send_miscdev() is called with data being NULL, but the only caller of that function (ecryptfs_process_helo()) is never called. In short, there is currently no way to trigger the NULL pointer dereference. This patch removes the two unused functions and modifies ecryptfs_send_miscdev() to remove the NULL dereferences. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-04-20ecryptfs: use memdup_user()Li Zefan
Remove open-coded memdup_user(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-01-06eCryptfs: Replace %Z with %zMichael Halcrow
%Z is a gcc-ism. Using %z instead. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dustin Kirkland <dustin.kirkland@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Cc: Tyler Hicks <tchicks@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Kleikamp <shaggy@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-24User namespaces: set of cleanups (v2)Serge Hallyn
The user_ns is moved from nsproxy to user_struct, so that a struct cred by itself is sufficient to determine access (which it otherwise would not be). Corresponding ecryptfs fixes (by David Howells) are here as well. Fix refcounting. The following rules now apply: 1. The task pins the user struct. 2. The user struct pins its user namespace. 3. The user namespace pins the struct user which created it. User namespaces are cloned during copy_creds(). Unsharing a new user_ns is no longer possible. (We could re-add that, but it'll cause code duplication and doesn't seem useful if PAM doesn't need to clone user namespaces). When a user namespace is created, its first user (uid 0) gets empty keyrings and a clean group_info. This incorporates a previous patch by David Howells. Here is his original patch description: >I suggest adding the attached incremental patch. It makes the following >changes: > > (1) Provides a current_user_ns() macro to wrap accesses to current's user > namespace. > > (2) Fixes eCryptFS. > > (3) Renames create_new_userns() to create_user_ns() to be more consistent > with the other associated functions and because the 'new' in the name is > superfluous. > > (4) Moves the argument and permission checks made for CLONE_NEWUSER to the > beginning of do_fork() so that they're done prior to making any attempts > at allocation. > > (5) Calls create_user_ns() after prepare_creds(), and gives it the new creds > to fill in rather than have it return the new root user. I don't imagine > the new root user being used for anything other than filling in a cred > struct. > > This also permits me to get rid of a get_uid() and a free_uid(), as the > reference the creds were holding on the old user_struct can just be > transferred to the new namespace's creator pointer. > > (6) Makes create_user_ns() reset the UIDs and GIDs of the creds under > preparation rather than doing it in copy_creds(). > >David >Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Changelog: Oct 20: integrate dhowells comments 1. leave thread_keyring alone 2. use current_user_ns() in set_user() Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
2008-11-14CRED: Wrap task credential accesses in the eCryptFS filesystemDavid Howells
Wrap access to task credentials so that they can be separated more easily from the task_struct during the introduction of COW creds. Change most current->(|e|s|fs)[ug]id to current_(|e|s|fs)[ug]id(). Change some task->e?[ug]id to task_e?[ug]id(). In some places it makes more sense to use RCU directly rather than a convenient wrapper; these will be addressed by later patches. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Mike Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Cc: Phillip Hellewell <phillip@hellewell.homeip.net> Cc: ecryptfs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-07-24ecryptfs: discard ecryptfsd registration messages in miscdevTyler Hicks
The userspace eCryptfs daemon sends HELO and QUIT messages to the kernel for per-user daemon (un)registration. These messages are required when netlink is used as the transport, but (un)registration is handled by opening and closing the device file when miscdev is the transport. These messages should be discarded in the miscdev transport so that a daemon isn't registered twice. Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-04ecryptfs: remove unnecessary mux from ecryptfs_init_ecryptfs_miscdev()Michael Halcrow
The misc_mtx should provide all the protection required to keep the daemon hash table sane during miscdev registration. Since this mutex is causing gratuitous lockdep warnings, this patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Reported-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-21ecryptfs fixesAl Viro
memcpy() from userland pointer is a Bad Thing(tm) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13eCryptFS: fix imbalanced mutex lockingCyrill Gorcunov
Fix imbalanced calls for mutex lock/unlock on ecryptfs_daemon_hash_mux Revealed by Ingo Molnar: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/7/260 Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29eCryptfs: make key module subsystem respect namespacesMichael Halcrow
Make eCryptfs key module subsystem respect namespaces. Since I will be removing the netlink interface in a future patch, I just made changes to the netlink.c code so that it will not break the build. With my recent patches, the kernel module currently defaults to the device handle interface rather than the netlink interface. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export free_user_ns()] Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29eCryptfs: integrate eCryptfs device handle into the module.Michael Halcrow
Update the versioning information. Make the message types generic. Add an outgoing message queue to the daemon struct. Make the functions to parse and write the packet lengths available to the rest of the module. Add functions to create and destroy the daemon structs. Clean up some of the comments and make the code a little more consistent with itself. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: printk fixes] Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-29eCryptfs: introduce device handle for userspace daemon communicationsMichael Halcrow
A regular device file was my real preference from the get-go, but I went with netlink at the time because I thought it would be less complex for managing send queues (i.e., just do a unicast and move on). It turns out that we do not really get that much complexity reduction with netlink, and netlink is more heavyweight than a device handle. In addition, the netlink interface to eCryptfs has been broken since 2.6.24. I am assuming this is a bug in how eCryptfs uses netlink, since the other in-kernel users of netlink do not seem to be having any problems. I have had one report of a user successfully using eCryptfs with netlink on 2.6.24, but for my own systems, when starting the userspace daemon, the initial helo message sent to the eCryptfs kernel module results in an oops right off the bat. I spent some time looking at it, but I have not yet found the cause. The netlink interface breaking gave me the motivation to just finish my patch to migrate to a regular device handle. If I cannot find out soon why the netlink interface in eCryptfs broke, I am likely to just send a patch to disable it in 2.6.24 and 2.6.25. I would like the device handle to be the preferred means of communicating with the userspace daemon from 2.6.26 on forward. This patch: Functions to facilitate reading and writing to the eCryptfs miscellaneous device handle. This will replace the netlink interface as the preferred mechanism for communicating with the userspace eCryptfs daemon. Each user has his own daemon, which registers itself by opening the eCryptfs device handle. Only one daemon per euid may be registered at any given time. The eCryptfs module sends a message to a daemon by adding its message to the daemon's outgoing message queue. The daemon reads the device handle to get the oldest message off the queue. Incoming messages from the userspace daemon are immediately handled. If the message is a response, then the corresponding process that is blocked waiting for the response is awakened. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>