- add an assertion.
- call VOP_STRATEGY of underlying vnode directly, rather than
through the filesystem vnode.
- no need to set b_dev here because VOP_STRATEGY will take care of it.
This closes a hole pointed out by Thor Lancelot Simon on tech-kern ~3
years ago.
The problem was with running binaries from remote storage, where our
kernel (and Veriexec) has no control over any changes to files.
An attacker could, after the fingerprint has been verified and
program loaded to memory, inject malicious code into the backing
store on the remote storage, followed by a forced flush, causing
a page-in of the malicious data from backing store, bypassing
integrity checks.
Initial implementation by Brett Lymn.
link points to the process's current working directory, and the root
link points to the process's root directory. What else would you
expect?
For directories that are out of reach (caller is in a chroot, target
process is in a different chroot, etc), the links point to "/"
instead.
- Remove all NFS related stuff from file system specific code.
- Drop the vfs_checkexp hook and generalize it in the new nfs_check_export
function, thus removing redundancy from all file systems.
- Move all NFS export-related stuff from kern/vfs_subr.c to the new
file sys/nfs/nfs_export.c. The former was becoming large and its code
is always compiled, regardless of the build options. Using the latter,
the code is only compiled in when NFSSERVER is enabled. While doing this,
also make some functions in nfs_subs.c conditional to NFSSERVER.
- Add a new command in nfssvc(2), called NFSSVC_SETEXPORTSLIST, that takes a
path and a set of export entries. At the moment it can only clear the
exports list or append entries, one by one, but it is done in a way that
allows setting the whole set of entries atomically in the future (see the
comment in mountd_set_exports_list or in doc/TODO).
- Change mountd(8) to use the nfssvc(2) system call instead of mount(2) so
that it becomes file system agnostic. In fact, all this whole thing was
done to remove a 'XXX' block from this utility!
- Change the mount*, newfs and fsck* userland utilities to not deal with NFS
exports initialization; done internally by the kernel when initializing
the NFS support for each file system.
- Implement an interface for VFS (called VFS hooks) so that several kernel
subsystems can run arbitrary code upon receipt of specific VFS events.
At the moment, this only provides support for unmount and is used to
destroy NFS exports lists from the file systems being unmounted, though it
has room for extension.
Thanks go to yamt@, chs@, thorpej@, wrstuden@ and others for their comments
and advice in the development of this patch.
vfs.sync.delay: max time to delay syncing data
vfs.sync.filedelay: time to delay syncing files
vfs.sync.dirdelay: time to delay syncing directories
vfs.sync.metadelay: time to delay syncing metadata
Note that using a value of 0 is allowed, but it's not
recommended.
- genfs_putpages: wait for i/o completion of PG_RELEASED/PG_PAGEOUT pages by
setting "wasclean" false when encountering them.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (1).
- genfs_putpages: write protect pages when cleaning out, if
we're going to take the vnode off the syncer's queue.
uvm_fault: don't write-map pages unless its vnode is already on
the syncer's queue.
fix PR/24596 (3) but in the different way from the suggested fix.
(to keep our current behaviour, ie. not to require explicit msync.
discussed on tech-kern@.)
- genfs_putpages: don't mistakenly take a vnode off the queue
by introducing a generation number in genfs_node.
genfs_getpages: increment the generation number.
suggested by Stephan Uphoff in PR/24596 (2).
- add some assertions.
to prevent unnecessary block allocations in the case that
page size > block size.
- ufs_balloc_range: use VM_PROT_WRITE+PGO_NOBLOCKALLOC rather than
VM_PROT_READ.
current directory in curproc. Fix from Pedro Martelletto:
We cannot call vgone() from procfs_inactive() if we are coming from
vclean(). that's what's probably causing the deadlock.
into the "vfsops" link set.
- Use VFS_ATTACH() where vfsops are declared for individual file systems.
- In vfsinit(), traverse the "vfsops" link set, rather than vfs_list_initial[].
-because noone should request reads past EOF, or writes past EOF which
are not explicitely marked as file-extending (PGO_PASTEOF), turn
a boundary check into a KASSERT
approved by Chuck Silvers
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