fsnotify: disable pre-content and permission events by default

After introducing pre-content events, we had a regression related to
disabling huge faults on files that should never have pre-content events
enabled.

This happened because the default f_mode of allocated files (0) does
not disable pre-content events.

Pre-content events are disabled in file_set_fsnotify_mode_by_watchers()
but internal files may not get to call this helper.

Initialize f_mode to disable permission and pre-content events for all
files and if needed they will be enabled for the callers of
file_set_fsnotify_mode_by_watchers().

Fixes: 20bf82a898b6 ("mm: don't allow huge faults for files with pre content watches")
Reported-by: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/[email protected]/
Tested-by: Alex Williamson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 35b93da6c5cb..5c00dc38558d 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -194,6 +194,11 @@ static int init_file(struct file *f, int flags, const struct cred *cred)
 	 * refcount bumps we should reinitialize the reused file first.
 	 */
 	file_ref_init(&f->f_ref, 1);
+	/*
+	 * Disable permission and pre-content events for all files by default.
+	 * They may be enabled later by file_set_fsnotify_mode_from_watchers().
+	 */
+	file_set_fsnotify_mode(f, FMODE_NONOTIFY_PERM);
 	return 0;
 }