vfs: define a generic function to read a file from the kernel
For a while it was looked down upon to directly read files from Linux. These days there exists a few mechanisms in the kernel that do just this though to load a file into a local buffer. There are minor but important checks differences on each. This patch set is the first attempt at resolving some of these differences. This patch introduces a common function for reading files from the kernel with the corresponding security post-read hook and function. Changelog v4+: - export security_kernel_post_read_file() - Fengguang Wu v3: - additional bounds checking - Luis v2: - To simplify patch review, re-ordered patches Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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@@ -2577,6 +2577,7 @@ static inline void i_readcount_inc(struct inode *inode)
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extern int do_pipe_flags(int *, int);
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extern int kernel_read(struct file *, loff_t, char *, unsigned long);
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extern int kernel_read_file(struct file *, void **, loff_t *, loff_t);
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extern ssize_t kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t);
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extern ssize_t __kernel_write(struct file *, const char *, size_t, loff_t *);
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extern struct file * open_exec(const char *);
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