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block: handle BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES correctly
authorChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Sat, 23 Mar 2024 16:11:19 +0000 (17:11 +0100)
committerChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:31:41 +0000 (09:31 +0100)
commitddd65e19c60140673ea9f7249af0a672f1820623
tree73d4200ee68cb4c37e8ffd23921523dbbccf3dae
parent4cece764965020c22cff7665b18a012006359095
block: handle BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES correctly

Last kernel release we introduce CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED. By
default this option is set. When it is set the long-standing behavior
of being able to write to mounted block devices is enabled.

But in order to guard against unintended corruption by writing to the
block device buffer cache CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED can be turned
off. In that case it isn't possible to write to mounted block devices
anymore.

A filesystem may open its block devices with BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES
which disallows concurrent BLK_OPEN_WRITE access. When we still had the
bdev handle around we could recognize BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES because
the mode was passed around. Since we managed to get rid of the bdev
handle we changed that logic to recognize BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES based
on whether the file was opened writable and writes to that block device
are blocked. That logic doesn't work because we do allow
BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES to be specified without BLK_OPEN_WRITE.

Fix the detection logic and use an FMODE_* bit. We could've also abused
O_EXCL as an indicator that BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES has been requested.
For userspace open paths O_EXCL will never be retained but for internal
opens where we open files that are never installed into a file
descriptor table this is fine. But it would be a gamble that this
doesn't cause bugs. Note that BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES is an internal
only flag that cannot directly be raised by userspace. It is implicitly
raised during mounting.

Passes xftests and blktests with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_WRITE_MOUNTED set and
unset.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZfyyEwu9Uq5Pgb94@casper.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240323-zielbereich-mittragen-6fdf14876c3e@brauner
Fixes: 321de651fa56 ("block: don't rely on BLK_OPEN_RESTRICT_WRITES when yielding write access")
Reviewed-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
block/bdev.c
include/linux/fs.h