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-rw-r--r--fs/anon_inodes.c36
-rw-r--r--fs/internal.h3
-rw-r--r--fs/libfs.c8
3 files changed, 46 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/anon_inodes.c b/fs/anon_inodes.c
index 583ac81669c2..42e4b9c34f89 100644
--- a/fs/anon_inodes.c
+++ b/fs/anon_inodes.c
@@ -24,10 +24,44 @@
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include "internal.h"
+
static struct vfsmount *anon_inode_mnt __ro_after_init;
static struct inode *anon_inode_inode __ro_after_init;
/*
+ * User space expects anonymous inodes to have no file type in st_mode.
+ *
+ * In particular, 'lsof' has this legacy logic:
+ *
+ * type = s->st_mode & S_IFMT;
+ * switch (type) {
+ * ...
+ * case 0:
+ * if (!strcmp(p, "anon_inode"))
+ * Lf->ntype = Ntype = N_ANON_INODE;
+ *
+ * to detect our old anon_inode logic.
+ *
+ * Rather than mess with our internal sane inode data, just fix it
+ * up here in getattr() by masking off the format bits.
+ */
+int anon_inode_getattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, const struct path *path,
+ struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask,
+ unsigned int query_flags)
+{
+ struct inode *inode = d_inode(path->dentry);
+
+ generic_fillattr(&nop_mnt_idmap, request_mask, inode, stat);
+ stat->mode &= ~S_IFMT;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static const struct inode_operations anon_inode_operations = {
+ .getattr = anon_inode_getattr,
+};
+
+/*
* anon_inodefs_dname() is called from d_path().
*/
static char *anon_inodefs_dname(struct dentry *dentry, char *buffer, int buflen)
@@ -66,6 +100,7 @@ static struct inode *anon_inode_make_secure_inode(
if (IS_ERR(inode))
return inode;
inode->i_flags &= ~S_PRIVATE;
+ inode->i_op = &anon_inode_operations;
error = security_inode_init_security_anon(inode, &QSTR(name),
context_inode);
if (error) {
@@ -313,6 +348,7 @@ static int __init anon_inode_init(void)
anon_inode_inode = alloc_anon_inode(anon_inode_mnt->mnt_sb);
if (IS_ERR(anon_inode_inode))
panic("anon_inode_init() inode allocation failed (%ld)\n", PTR_ERR(anon_inode_inode));
+ anon_inode_inode->i_op = &anon_inode_operations;
return 0;
}
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index b9b3e29a73fd..717dc9eb6185 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -343,3 +343,6 @@ static inline bool path_mounted(const struct path *path)
void file_f_owner_release(struct file *file);
bool file_seek_cur_needs_f_lock(struct file *file);
int statmount_mnt_idmap(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct seq_file *seq, bool uid_map);
+int anon_inode_getattr(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, const struct path *path,
+ struct kstat *stat, u32 request_mask,
+ unsigned int query_flags);
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index 6393d7c49ee6..e1146620346e 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1647,7 +1647,13 @@ struct inode *alloc_anon_inode(struct super_block *s)
* that it already _is_ on the dirty list.
*/
inode->i_state = I_DIRTY;
- inode->i_mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
+ /*
+ * Historically anonymous inodes didn't have a type at all and
+ * userspace has come to rely on this. Internally they're just
+ * regular files but S_IFREG is masked off when reporting
+ * information to userspace.
+ */
+ inode->i_mode = S_IFREG | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
inode->i_uid = current_fsuid();
inode->i_gid = current_fsgid();
inode->i_flags |= S_PRIVATE;