On Thu Mar 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM EET, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> On Tue Mar 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM EET, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
> > that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
> > EVM, IMA, and fscaps
On Tue Mar 5, 2024 at 2:27 PM EET, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
> that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
> EVM, IMA, and fscaps to retrieve xattrs. Recently, we've seen issues
> where 9p returned
On Tue, 05 Mar 2024 13:27:06 +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
> that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
> EVM, IMA, and fscaps to retrieve xattrs. Recently, we've seen issues
> where 9p returned
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
> that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
> EVM, IMA, and fscaps to retrieve xattrs. Recently, we've seen issues
> where 9p
On Tue, Mar 05, 2024 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
> that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
> EVM, IMA, and fscaps to retrieve xattrs. Recently, we've seen issues
> where 9p
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig
The vfs_getxattr_alloc() interface is a special-purpose in-kernel api
that does a racy query-size+allocate-buffer+retrieve-data. It is used by
EVM, IMA, and fscaps to retrieve xattrs. Recently, we've seen issues
where 9p returned values that amount to allocating about 8000GB worth of
memory (cf.
