Thread (18 messages) 18 messages, 8 authors, 2012-01-13

Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] vfs: iversion truncate bug fix

From: Kasatkin, Dmitry <hidden>
Date: 2012-01-13 10:13:59
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On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:30 AM, Andrew Morton
[off-list ref] wrote:
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:39:41 -0800
James Bottomley [off-list ref] wrote:
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Please, go read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to
properly submit patches to the stable kernel tree.  The information here
needs to be in the patch changelog itself, not in some random email
thread that will get lost instantly into my email-archive-from-hell
after I am done reading this.

greg k-h
Yes, I've read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt and think this
patch meets the criteria for being backported.

As far as I'm aware, this patch hasn't been upstreamed yet and is
waiting for someone, besides myself, to Ack it.  Once Acked, either
Dmitry or I can send a pull request with an updated patch description.
Should this patch go in via the security tree?
If it hasn't been upstreamed yet, just make sure you put

cc: stable@kernel.org

In the signoffs of the patch you're sending upstream and the backport
will occur automatically when the patch is finally upstreamed.
Mimi didn't write or send the patch.

This happily git-free maintainer simply goes in and edits the
changelog.  I do this very very frequently.


Here's what I currently have.  I plan to send this to Rip Van Viro.
Hello,

Should I do anything about re-submitting this patch now?
Or it went forward already?

Thanks,
Dmitry
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From: Dmitry Kasatkin <redacted>
Subject: vfs: increment iversion when a file is truncated

When a file is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed,
iversion is not updated.  This patch uses ATTR_SIZE flag as an indication
to increment iversion.

Mimi said:

On fput(), i_version is used to detect and flag files that have changed
and need to be re-measured in the IMA measurement policy.  When a file
is truncated with truncate()/ftruncate() and then closed, i_version is
not updated.  As a result, although the file has changed, it will not be
re-measured and added to the IMA measurement list on subsequent access.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <redacted>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <redacted>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 fs/attr.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff -puN fs/attr.c~vfs-increment-iversion-when-a-file-is-truncated fs/attr.c
--- a/fs/attr.c~vfs-increment-iversion-when-a-file-is-truncated
+++ a/fs/attr.c
@@ -176,6 +176,11 @@ int notify_change(struct dentry * dentry
                       return -EPERM;
       }

+       if ((ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) && IS_I_VERSION(inode)) {
+               if (attr->ia_size != inode->i_size)
+                       inode_inc_iversion(inode);
+       }
+
       if ((ia_valid & ATTR_MODE)) {
               umode_t amode = attr->ia_mode;
               /* Flag setting protected by i_mutex */
_
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