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authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-02-01 06:06:16 +1300
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>2017-02-02 04:36:12 +1300
commit93faccbbfa958a9668d3ab4e30f38dd205cee8d8 (patch)
treef4a102b92d86d19a52a88a57bdde19ad25250ca1 /kernel/trace
parentc6c70f4455d1eda91065e93cc4f7eddf4499b105 (diff)
fs: Better permission checking for submounts
To support unprivileged users mounting filesystems two permission checks have to be performed: a test to see if the user allowed to create a mount in the mount namespace, and a test to see if the user is allowed to access the specified filesystem. The automount case is special in that mounting the original filesystem grants permission to mount the sub-filesystems, to any user who happens to stumble across the their mountpoint and satisfies the ordinary filesystem permission checks. Attempting to handle the automount case by using override_creds almost works. It preserves the idea that permission to mount the original filesystem is permission to mount the sub-filesystem. Unfortunately using override_creds messes up the filesystems ordinary permission checks. Solve this by being explicit that a mount is a submount by introducing vfs_submount, and using it where appropriate. vfs_submount uses a new mount internal mount flags MS_SUBMOUNT, to let sget and friends know that a mount is a submount so they can take appropriate action. sget and sget_userns are modified to not perform any permission checks on submounts. follow_automount is modified to stop using override_creds as that has proven problemantic. do_mount is modified to always remove the new MS_SUBMOUNT flag so that we know userspace will never by able to specify it. autofs4 is modified to stop using current_real_cred that was put in there to handle the previous version of submount permission checking. cifs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to vfs_submount. debugfs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to trace_automount by adding a new parameter. To make this change easier a new typedef debugfs_automount_t is introduced to capture the type of the debugfs automount function. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 069d5ac9ae0d ("autofs: Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()->uid") Fixes: aeaa4a79ff6a ("fs: Call d_automount with the filesystems creds") Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com> Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index d7449783987a..310f0ea0d1a2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -7503,7 +7503,7 @@ init_tracer_tracefs(struct trace_array *tr, struct dentry *d_tracer)
ftrace_init_tracefs(tr, d_tracer);
}
-static struct vfsmount *trace_automount(void *ingore)
+static struct vfsmount *trace_automount(struct dentry *mntpt, void *ingore)
{
struct vfsmount *mnt;
struct file_system_type *type;
@@ -7516,7 +7516,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *trace_automount(void *ingore)
type = get_fs_type("tracefs");
if (!type)
return NULL;
- mnt = vfs_kern_mount(type, 0, "tracefs", NULL);
+ mnt = vfs_submount(mntpt, type, "tracefs", NULL);
put_filesystem(type);
if (IS_ERR(mnt))
return NULL;