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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Jann Horn <[email protected]>, Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Roesch <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>,
	linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
	Pavel Begunkov <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] io_uring: add getdents64 support
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 08:00:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG48ez1O9VxSuWuLXBjke23YxUA8EhMP+6RCHo5PNQBf3B0pDQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 1/2/22 11:03 PM, Jann Horn wrote:
> io_uring has some dodgy code that seems to be reading and writing
> file->f_pos without holding the file->f_pos_lock. And even if the file
> doesn't have an f_op->read or f_op->read_iter handler, I think you
> might be able to read ->f_pos of an ext4 directory and write the value
> back later, unless I'm missing a check somewhere?

I posted an RFC to hold f_pos_lock across those operations before the
break:

https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/[email protected]/

picking it up this week and flushing it out, hopefully.

-- 
Jens Axboe


  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-21 16:40 [PATCH v7 0/3] io_uring: add getdents64 support Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:40 ` [PATCH v7 1/3] fs: add offset parameter to iterate_dir function Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:40 ` [PATCH v7 2/3] fs: split off vfs_getdents function of getdents64 syscall Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 16:40 ` [PATCH v7 3/3] io_uring: add support for getdents64 Stefan Roesch
2021-12-21 17:15 ` [PATCH v7 0/3] io_uring: add getdents64 support Linus Torvalds
2021-12-31 23:15   ` Al Viro
2022-01-01 19:59     ` Al Viro
2022-01-03  7:03       ` Jann Horn
2022-01-03 15:00         ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2022-01-03 18:55         ` Linus Torvalds
2022-01-03 21:12         ` Al Viro
2021-12-21 19:17 ` Jens Axboe
2021-12-31 23:14 ` Al Viro
2023-04-16 22:06 ` Dominique Martinet

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