cachestat: fix page cache statistics permission checking

commit 5f537664e705b0bf8b7e329861f20128534f6a83 upstream.

When the 'cachestat()' system call was added in commit cf264e1329
("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall"), it was meant to be a much
more convenient (and performant) version of mincore() that didn't need
mapping things into the user virtual address space in order to work.

But it ended up missing the "check for writability or ownership" fix for
mincore(), done in commit 134fca9063 ("mm/mincore.c: make mincore()
more conservative").

This just adds equivalent logic to 'cachestat()', modified for the file
context (rather than vma).

Reported-by: Sudheendra Raghav Neela <sneela@tugraz.at>
Fixes: cf264e1329 ("cachestat: implement cachestat syscall")
Tested-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Nhat Pham <nphamcs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Linus Torvalds
2025-01-21 09:27:22 -08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 854d0d361e
commit 7d6405c13b

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@@ -4270,6 +4270,20 @@ resched:
rcu_read_unlock();
}
/*
* See mincore: reveal pagecache information only for files
* that the calling process has write access to, or could (if
* tried) open for writing.
*/
static inline bool can_do_cachestat(struct file *f)
{
if (f->f_mode & FMODE_WRITE)
return true;
if (inode_owner_or_capable(file_mnt_idmap(f), file_inode(f)))
return true;
return file_permission(f, MAY_WRITE) == 0;
}
/*
* The cachestat(2) system call.
*
@@ -4329,6 +4343,11 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(cachestat, unsigned int, fd,
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
}
if (!can_do_cachestat(f.file)) {
fdput(f);
return -EPERM;
}
if (flags != 0) {
fdput(f);
return -EINVAL;