Revision 7fb5409df092589b86cc9412d926879cb572b7f0 authored by Jan Kara on 10 February 2008, 06:08:38 UTC, committed by Theodore Ts'o on 10 February 2008, 06:08:38 UTC
We cannot start transaction in ext4_direct_IO() and just let it last
during the whole write because dio_get_page() acquires mmap_sem which
ranks above transaction start (e.g. because we have dependency chain
mmap_sem->PageLock->journal_start, or because we update atime while
holding mmap_sem) and thus deadlocks could happen. We solve the problem
by starting a transaction separately for each ext4_get_block() call.

We *could* have a problem that we allocate a block and before its data
are written out the machine crashes and thus we expose stale data. But
that does not happen because for hole-filling generic code falls back to
buffered writes and for file extension, we add inode to orphan list and
thus in case of crash, journal replay will truncate inode back to the
original size.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>

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root_plug.c
/*
 * Root Plug sample LSM module
 *
 * Originally written for a Linux Journal.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2002 Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
 *
 * Prevents any programs running with egid == 0 if a specific USB device
 * is not present in the system.  Yes, it can be gotten around, but is a
 * nice starting point for people to play with, and learn the LSM
 * interface.
 *
 * If you want to turn this into something with a semblance of security,
 * you need to hook the task_* functions also.
 *
 * See http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6279 for more information
 * about this code.
 *
 *	This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *	modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
 *	published by the Free Software Foundation, version 2 of the
 *	License.
 */

#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/security.h>
#include <linux/usb.h>
#include <linux/moduleparam.h>

/* flag to keep track of how we were registered */
static int secondary;

/* default is a generic type of usb to serial converter */
static int vendor_id = 0x0557;
static int product_id = 0x2008;

module_param(vendor_id, uint, 0400);
module_param(product_id, uint, 0400);

/* should we print out debug messages */
static int debug = 0;

module_param(debug, bool, 0600);

#define MY_NAME "root_plug"

#define root_dbg(fmt, arg...)					\
	do {							\
		if (debug)					\
			printk(KERN_DEBUG "%s: %s: " fmt ,	\
				MY_NAME , __FUNCTION__ , 	\
				## arg);			\
	} while (0)

static int rootplug_bprm_check_security (struct linux_binprm *bprm)
{
	struct usb_device *dev;

	root_dbg("file %s, e_uid = %d, e_gid = %d\n",
		 bprm->filename, bprm->e_uid, bprm->e_gid);

	if (bprm->e_gid == 0) {
		dev = usb_find_device(vendor_id, product_id);
		if (!dev) {
			root_dbg("e_gid = 0, and device not found, "
				 "task not allowed to run...\n");
			return -EPERM;
		}
		usb_put_dev(dev);
	}

	return 0;
}

static struct security_operations rootplug_security_ops = {
	/* Use the capability functions for some of the hooks */
	.ptrace =			cap_ptrace,
	.capget =			cap_capget,
	.capset_check =			cap_capset_check,
	.capset_set =			cap_capset_set,
	.capable =			cap_capable,

	.bprm_apply_creds =		cap_bprm_apply_creds,
	.bprm_set_security =		cap_bprm_set_security,

	.task_post_setuid =		cap_task_post_setuid,
	.task_reparent_to_init =	cap_task_reparent_to_init,

	.bprm_check_security =		rootplug_bprm_check_security,
};

static int __init rootplug_init (void)
{
	/* register ourselves with the security framework */
	if (register_security (&rootplug_security_ops)) {
		printk (KERN_INFO 
			"Failure registering Root Plug module with the kernel\n");
		/* try registering with primary module */
		if (mod_reg_security (MY_NAME, &rootplug_security_ops)) {
			printk (KERN_INFO "Failure registering Root Plug "
				" module with primary security module.\n");
			return -EINVAL;
		}
		secondary = 1;
	}
	printk (KERN_INFO "Root Plug module initialized, "
		"vendor_id = %4.4x, product id = %4.4x\n", vendor_id, product_id);
	return 0;
}

security_initcall (rootplug_init);
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