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Miklos Szeredi
1f55ed06cf fuse: update interface version
Change interface version to 7.11 after adding the IOCTL and POLL
messages.

Also clean up the <linux/fuse.h> header a bit:
  - update copyright date to 2008
  - fix checkpatch warning:
      WARNING: Use #include <linux/types.h> instead of <asm/types.h>
  - remove FUSE_MAJOR define, which is not being used any more

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-12-01 19:14:02 +01:00
Tejun Heo
95668a69a4 fuse: implement poll support
Implement poll support.  Polled files are indexed using kh in a RB
tree rooted at fuse_conn->polled_files.

Client should send FUSE_NOTIFY_POLL notification once after processing
FUSE_POLL which has FUSE_POLL_SCHEDULE_NOTIFY set.  Sending
notification unconditionally after the latest poll or everytime file
content might have changed is inefficient but won't cause malfunction.

fuse_file_poll() can sleep and requires patches from the following
thread which allows f_op->poll() to sleep.

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/726176

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
8599396b50 fuse: implement unsolicited notification
Clients always used to write only in response to read requests.  To
implement poll efficiently, clients should be able to issue
unsolicited notifications.  This patch implements basic notification
support.

Zero fuse_out_header.unique is now accepted and considered unsolicited
notification and the error field contains notification code.  This
patch doesn't implement any actual notification.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
59efec7b90 fuse: implement ioctl support
Generic ioctl support is tricky to implement because only the ioctl
implementation itself knows which memory regions need to be read
and/or written.  To support this, fuse client can request retry of
ioctl specifying memory regions to read and write.  Deep copying
(nested pointers) can be implemented by retrying multiple times
resolving one depth of dereference at a time.

For security and cleanliness considerations, ioctl implementation has
restricted mode where the kernel determines data transfer directions
and sizes using the _IOC_*() macros on the ioctl command.  In this
mode, retry is not allowed.

For all FUSE servers, restricted mode is enforced.  Unrestricted ioctl
will be used by CUSE.

Plese read the comment on top of fs/fuse/file.c::fuse_file_do_ioctl()
for more information.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:55 +01:00
Tejun Heo
193da60927 fuse: move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h
Move FUSE_MINOR to miscdevice.h.  While at it, de-uglify the file.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-11-26 12:03:54 +01:00
Tejun Heo
a7c1b990f7 fuse: implement nonseekable open
Let the client request nonseekable open using FOPEN_NONSEEKABLE and
call nonseekable_open() on the file if requested.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-16 16:08:57 +02:00
Tejun Heo
29d434b39c fuse: add include protectors
Add include protectors to include/linux/fuse.h and fs/fuse/fuse_i.h.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
2008-10-16 16:08:57 +02:00
Miklos Szeredi
33670fa296 fuse: nfs export special lookups
Implement the get_parent export operation by sending a LOOKUP request with
".." as the name.

Implement looking up an inode by node ID after it has been evicted from
the cache.  This is done by seding a LOOKUP request with "." as the name
(for all file types, not just directories).

The filesystem can set the FUSE_EXPORT_SUPPORT flag in the INIT reply, to
indicate that it supports these special lookups.

Thanks to John Muir for the original implementation of this feature.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:48 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
78bb6cb9a8 fuse: add flag to turn on big writes
Prior to 2.6.26 fuse only supported single page write requests.  In theory all
fuse filesystem should be able support bigger than 4k writes, as there's
nothing in the API to prevent it.  Unfortunately there's a known case in
NTFS-3G where big writes cause filesystem corruption.  There could also be
other filesystems, where the lack of testing with big write requests would
result in bugs.

To prevent such problems on a kernel upgrade, disable big writes by default,
but let filesystems set a flag to turn it on.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Szabolcs Szakacsits <szaka@ntfs-3g.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-13 08:02:26 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
a6643094e7 fuse: pass open flags to read and write
Some open flags (O_APPEND, O_DIRECT) can be changed with fcntl(F_SETFL, ...)
after open, but fuse currently only sends the flags to userspace in open.

To make it possible to correcly handle changing flags, send the
current value to userspace in each read and write.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
0e9663ee45 fuse: add blksize field to fuse_attr
There are cases when the filesystem will be passed the buffer from a single
read or write call, namely:

 1) in 'direct-io' mode (not O_DIRECT), read/write requests don't go
    through the page cache, but go directly to the userspace fs

 2) currently buffered writes are done with single page requests, but
    if Nick's ->perform_write() patch goes it, it will be possible to
    do larger write requests.  But only if the original write() was
    also bigger than a page.

In these cases the filesystem might want to give a hint to the app
about the optimal I/O size.

Allow the userspace filesystem to supply a blksize value to be returned by
stat() and friends.  If the field is zero, it defaults to the old
PAGE_CACHE_SIZE value.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
f33321141b fuse: add support for mandatory locking
For mandatory locking the userspace filesystem needs to know the lock
ownership for read, write and truncate operations.

This patch adds the necessary fields to the protocol.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b25e82e567 fuse: add helper for asynchronous writes
This patch adds a new helper function fuse_write_fill() which makes it
possible to send WRITE requests asynchronously.

A new flag for WRITE requests is also added which indicates that this a write
from the page cache, and not a "normal" file write.

This patch is in preparation for writable mmap support.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
a9ff4f8705 fuse: support BSD locking semantics
It is trivial to add support for flock(2) semantics to the existing protocol,
by setting the lock owner field to the file pointer, and passing a new
FUSE_LK_FLOCK flag with the locking request.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
6ff958edbf fuse: add atomic open+truncate support
This patch allows fuse filesystems to implement open(..., O_TRUNC) as a single
request, instead of separate truncate and open requests.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:31 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
17637cbaba fuse: improve utimes support
Add two new flags for setattr: FATTR_ATIME_NOW and FATTR_MTIME_NOW.  These
mean, that atime or mtime should be changed to the current time.

Also it is now possible to update atime or mtime individually, not just
together.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:30 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
c79e322f63 fuse: add file handle to getattr operation
Add necessary protocol changes for supplying a file handle with the getattr
operation.  Step the API version to 7.9.

This patch doesn't actually supply the file handle, because that needs some
kind of VFS support, which we haven't yet been able to agree upon.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18 14:37:30 -07:00
Andrew Morton
21f3da95da fuse warning fix
gcc-4.3:

fs/fuse/dir.c: In function 'parse_dirfile':
fs/fuse/dir.c:833: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
fs/fuse/dir.c:835: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

[miklos@szeredi.hu: use offsetof]
Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
0ec7ca41f6 [PATCH] fuse: add DESTROY operation
Add a DESTROY operation for block device based filesystems.  With the help of
this operation, such a filesystem can flush dirty data to the device
synchronously before the umount returns.

This is needed in situations where the filesystem is assumed to be clean
immediately after unmount (e.g.  ejecting removable media).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:32 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
b2d2272fae [PATCH] fuse: add bmap support
Add support for the BMAP operation for block device based filesystems.  This
is needed to support swap-files and lilo.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:32 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
e9168c189f [PATCH] fuse: update userspace interface to version 7.8
Add a flag to the RELEASE message which specifies that a FLUSH operation
should be performed as well.  This interface update is needed for the FreeBSD
port, and doesn't actually touch the Linux implementation at all.

Also rename the unused 'flush_flags' in the FLUSH message to 'unused'.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:31 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
a4d27e75ff [PATCH] fuse: add request interruption
Add synchronous request interruption.  This is needed for file locking
operations which have to be interruptible.  However filesystem may implement
interruptibility of other operations (e.g.  like NFS 'intr' mount option).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
7142125937 [PATCH] fuse: add POSIX file locking support
This patch adds POSIX file locking support to the fuse interface.

This implementation doesn't keep any locking state in kernel.  Unlocking on
close() is handled by the FLUSH message, which now contains the lock owner id.

Mandatory locking is not supported.  The filesystem may enfoce mandatory
locking in userspace if needed.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Jan Engelhardt
3e8c54fad8 [PATCH] fuse: use MISC_MAJOR
The following patches add POSIX file locking to the fuse interface.

Additional changes ralated to this are:

  - asynchronous interrupt of requests by SIGKILL no longer supported

  - separate control filesystem, instead of using sysfs objects

  - add support for synchronously interrupting requests

Details are documented in Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt throughout the
patches.

This patch:

Have fuse.h use MISC_MAJOR rather than a hardcoded '10'.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-25 10:01:19 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
9cd6845511 [PATCH] fuse: fix async read for legacy filesystems
While asynchronous reads mean a performance improvement in most cases, if
the filesystem assumed that reads are synchronous, then async reads may
degrade performance (filesystem may receive reads out of order, which can
confuse it's own readahead logic).

With sshfs a 1.5 to 4 times slowdown can be measured.

There's also a need for userspace filesystems to know whether asynchronous
reads are supported by the kernel or not.

To achive these, negotiate in the INIT request whether async reads will be
used and the maximum readahead value.  Update interface version to 7.6

If userspace uses a version earlier than 7.6, then disable async reads, and
set maximum readahead value to the maximum read size, as done in previous
versions.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01 08:53:09 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
3ec870d524 [PATCH] fuse: make maximum write data configurable
Make the maximum size of write data configurable by the filesystem.  The
previous fixed 4096 limit only worked on architectures where the page size is
less or equal to this.  This change make writing work on other architectures
too, and also lets the filesystem receive bigger write requests in direct_io
mode.

Normal writes which go through the page cache are still limited to a page
sized chunk per request.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
1d3d752b47 [PATCH] fuse: clean up request size limit checking
Change the way a too large request is handled.  Until now in this case the
device read returned -EINVAL and the operation returned -EIO.

Make it more flexibible by not returning -EINVAL from the read, but restarting
it instead.

Also remove the fixed limit on setxattr data and let the filesystem provide as
large a read buffer as it needs to handle the extended attribute data.

The symbolic link length is already checked by VFS to be less than PATH_MAX,
so the extra check against FUSE_SYMLINK_MAX is not needed.

The check in fuse_create_open() against FUSE_NAME_MAX is not needed, since the
dentry has already been looked up, and hence the name already checked.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:56 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
de5f120255 [PATCH] fuse: add frsize to statfs reply
Add 'frsize' member to the statfs reply.

I'm not sure if sending f_fsid will ever be needed, but just in case leave
some space at the end of the structure, so less compatibility mess would be
required.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
45714d6561 [PATCH] fuse: bump interface version
Change interface version to 7.4.

Following changes will need backward compatibility support, so store the minor
version returned by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-06 08:33:55 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
befc649c22 [PATCH] FUSE: pass file handle in setattr
This patch passes the file handle supplied in iattr to userspace, in case the
->setattr() was invoked from sys_ftruncate().  This solves the permission
checking (or lack thereof) in ftruncate() for the class of filesystems served
by an unprivileged userspace process.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
fd72faac95 [PATCH] FUSE: atomic create+open
This patch adds an atomic create+open operation.  This does not yet work if
the file type changes between lookup and create+open, but solves the
permission checking problems for the separte create and open methods.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
31d40d74b4 [PATCH] FUSE: add access call
Add a new access call, which will only be called if ->permission is invoked
from sys_access().  In all other cases permission checking is delayed until
the actual filesystem operation.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
5b62073d50 [PATCH] FUSE: bump interface minor version
Though the following changes are all backward compatible (from the kernel's as
well as the library's POV) change the minor version, so interested
applications can detect new features.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:42 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
6ea05db06f [PATCH] fuse: remove unused define
Setting ctime is implicit in all setattr cases, so the FATTR_CTIME
definition is unnecessary.

It is used by neither the kernel nor by userspace.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-30 17:37:24 -08:00
Miklos Szeredi
8254798199 [PATCH] FUSE: add fsync operation for directories
This patch adds a new FSYNCDIR request, which is sent when fsync is called
on directories.  This operation is available in libfuse 2.3-pre1 or
greater.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
45323fb764 [PATCH] fuse: more flexible caching
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount.  Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
04730fef1f [PATCH] fuse: transfer readdir data through device
This patch removes a long lasting "hack" in FUSE, which used a separate
channel (a file descriptor refering to a disk-file) to transfer directory
contents from userspace to the kernel.

The patch adds three new operations (OPENDIR, READDIR, RELEASEDIR), which
have semantics and implementation exactly maching the respective file
operations (OPEN, READ, RELEASE).

This simplifies the directory reading code.  Also disk space is not
necessary, which can be important in embedded systems.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
06663267b4 [PATCH] FUSE: add padding
Add padding to structures to make sizes the same on 32bit and 64bit archs.
Initial testing and test machine generously provided by Franco Broi.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:46 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
92a8780e11 [PATCH] FUSE - extended attribute operations
This patch adds the extended attribute operations to FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o getxattr
 o setxattr
 o listxattr
 o removexattr

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
b6aeadeda2 [PATCH] FUSE - file operations
This patch adds the file operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o open
 o flush
 o release
 o fsync
 o readpage
 o commit_write

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
9e6268db49 [PATCH] FUSE - read-write operations
This patch adds the write filesystem operations of FUSE.

The following operations are added:

 o setattr
 o symlink
 o mknod
 o mkdir
 o create
 o unlink
 o rmdir
 o rename
 o link

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
e5e5558e92 [PATCH] FUSE - read-only operations
This patch adds the read-only filesystem operations of FUSE.

This contains the following files:

 o dir.c
    - directory, symlink and file-inode operations

The following operations are added:

 o lookup
 o getattr
 o readlink
 o follow_link
 o directory open
 o readdir
 o directory release
 o permission
 o dentry revalidate
 o statfs

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:45 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
334f485df8 [PATCH] FUSE - device functions
This adds the FUSE device handling functions.

This contains the following files:

 o dev.c
    - fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
    - registers misc device
    - support for sending requests to userspace

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
d8a5ba4545 [PATCH] FUSE - core
This patch adds FUSE core.

This contains the following files:

 o inode.c
    - superblock operations (alloc_inode, destroy_inode, read_inode,
      clear_inode, put_super, show_options)
    - registers FUSE filesystem

 o fuse_i.h
    - private header file

Requirements
============

 The most important difference between orinary filesystems and FUSE is
 the fact, that the filesystem data/metadata is provided by a userspace
 process run with the privileges of the mount "owner" instead of the
 kernel, or some remote entity usually running with elevated
 privileges.

 The security implication of this is that a non-privileged user must
 not be able to use this capability to compromise the system.  Obvious
 requirements arising from this are:

  - mount owner should not be able to get elevated privileges with the
    help of the mounted filesystem

  - mount owner should not be able to induce undesired behavior in
    other users' or the super user's processes

  - mount owner should not get illegitimate access to information from
    other users' and the super user's processes

 These are currently ensured with the following constraints:

  1) mount is only allowed to directory or file which the mount owner
    can modify without limitation (write access + no sticky bit for
    directories)

  2) nosuid,nodev mount options are forced

  3) any process running with fsuid different from the owner is denied
     all access to the filesystem

 1) and 2) are ensured by the "fusermount" mount utility which is a
    setuid root application doing the actual mount operation.

 3) is ensured by a check in the permission() method in kernel

 I started thinking about doing 3) in a different way because Christoph
 H. made a big deal out of it, saying that FUSE is unacceptable into
 mainline in this form.

 The suggested use of private namespaces would be OK, but in their
 current form have many limitations that make their use impractical (as
 discussed in this thread).

 Suggested improvements that would address these limitations:

   - implement shared subtrees

   - allow a process to join an existing namespace (make namespaces
     first-class objects)

   - implement the namespace creation/joining in a PAM module

 With all that in place the check of owner against current->fsuid may
 be removed from the FUSE kernel module, without compromising the
 security requirements.

 Suid programs still interesting questions, since they get access even
 to the private namespace causing some information leak (exact
 order/timing of filesystem operations performed), giving some
 ptrace-like capabilities to unprivileged users.  BTW this problem is
 not strictly limited to the namespace approach, since suid programs
 setting fsuid and accessing users' files will succeed with the current
 approach too.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00