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<title>fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts</title>
<updated>2022-10-31T16:47:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
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<published>2022-10-26T10:51:27Z</published>
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Last cycle we've already made the interaction with idmapped mounts more
robust and type safe by introducing the vfs{g,u}id_t type. This cycle we
concluded the conversion and removed the legacy helpers.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to
a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate filesystem and mount namespaces and what different roles they
have to play. Especially for filesystem developers without much
experience in this area this is an easy source for bugs.

Instead of passing the plain namespace we introduce a dedicated type
struct mnt_idmap and replace the pointer with a pointer to a struct
mnt_idmap. There are no semantic or size changes for the mount struct
caused by this.

We then start converting all places aware of idmapped mounts to rely on
struct mnt_idmap. Once the conversion is done all helpers down to the
really low-level make_vfs{g,u}id() and from_vfs{g,u}id() will take a
struct mnt_idmap argument instead of two namespace arguments. This way
it becomes impossible to conflate the two, removing and thus eliminating
the possibility of any bugs. Fwiw, I fixed some issues in that area a
while ago in ntfs3 and ksmbd in the past. Afterwards, only low-level
code can ultimately use the associated namespace for any permission
checks. Even most of the vfs can be ultimately completely oblivious
about this and filesystems will never interact with it directly in any
form in the future.

A struct mnt_idmap currently encompasses a simple refcount and a pointer
to the relevant namespace the mount is idmapped to. If a mount isn't
idmapped then it will point to a static nop_mnt_idmap. If it is an
idmapped mount it will point to a new struct mnt_idmap. As usual there
are no allocations or anything happening for non-idmapped mounts.
Everthing is carefully written to be a nop for non-idmapped mounts as
has always been the case.

If an idmapped mount or mount tree is created a new struct mnt_idmap is
allocated and a reference taken on the relevant namespace. For each
mount in a mount tree that gets idmapped or a mount that inherits the
idmap when it is cloned the reference count on the associated struct
mnt_idmap is bumped. Just a reminder that we only allow a mount to
change it's idmapping a single time and only if it hasn't already been
attached to the filesystems and has no active writers.

The actual changes are fairly straightforward. This will have huge
benefits for maintenance and security in the long run even if it causes
some churn. I'm aware that there's some cost for all of you. And I'll
commit to doing this work and make this as painless as I can.

Note that this also makes it possible to extend struct mount_idmap in
the future. For example, it would be possible to place the namespace
pointer in an anonymous union together with an idmapping struct. This
would allow us to expose an api to userspace that would let it specify
idmappings directly instead of having to go through the detour of
setting up namespaces at all.

This just adds the infrastructure and doesn't do any conversions.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) &lt;sforshee@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>move mount-related externs from fs.h to mount.h</title>
<updated>2022-05-20T03:25:48Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-03-02T22:49:09Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>linux/mount.h: trim includes</title>
<updated>2022-05-20T03:25:18Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2022-03-02T00:56:53Z</published>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>fs: move namespace sysctls and declare fs base directory</title>
<updated>2022-01-22T06:33:36Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis Chamberlain</name>
<email>mcgrof@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2022-01-22T06:13:27Z</published>
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This moves the namespace sysctls to its own file as part of the
kernel/sysctl.c spring cleaning

Since we have now removed all sysctls for "fs", we now have to declare
it on the filesystem code, we do that using the new helper, which
reduces boiler plate code.

We rename init_fs_shared_sysctls() to init_fs_sysctls() to reflect that
now fs/sysctls.c is taking on the burden of being the first to register
the base directory as well.

Lastly, since init code will load in the order in which we link it we
have to move the sysctl code to be linked in early, so that its early
init routine runs prior to other fs code.  This way, other filesystem
code can register their own sysctls using the helpers after this:

  * register_sysctl_init()
  * register_sysctl()

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211129211943.640266-3-mcgrof@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy &lt;anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Antti Palosaari &lt;crope@iki.fi&gt;
Cc: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Iurii Zaikin &lt;yzaikin@google.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Lukas Middendorf &lt;kernel@tuxforce.de&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: "Naveen N. Rao" &lt;naveen.n.rao@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Kitt &lt;steve@sk2.org&gt;
Cc: Xiaoming Ni &lt;nixiaoming@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2021-02-27T16:07:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2021-02-27T16:07:12Z</published>
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff pile - no common topic here"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  whack-a-mole: don't open-code iminor/imajor
  9p: fix misuse of sscanf() in v9fs_stat2inode()
  audit_alloc_mark(): don't open-code ERR_CAST()
  fs/inode.c: make inode_init_always() initialize i_ino to 0
  vfs: don't unnecessarily clone write access for writable fds
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<title>fs: introduce MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:43:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-21T13:19:54Z</published>
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Introduce a new mount bind mount property to allow idmapping mounts. The
MOUNT_ATTR_IDMAP flag can be set via the new mount_setattr() syscall
together with a file descriptor referring to a user namespace.

The user namespace referenced by the namespace file descriptor will be
attached to the bind mount. All interactions with the filesystem going
through that mount will be mapped according to the mapping specified in
the user namespace attached to it.

Using user namespaces to mark mounts means we can reuse all the existing
infrastructure in the kernel that already exists to handle idmappings
and can also use this for permission checking to allow unprivileged user
to create idmapped mounts in the future.

Idmapping a mount is decoupled from the caller's user and mount
namespace. This means idmapped mounts can be created in the initial
user namespace which is an important use-case for systemd-homed,
portable usb-sticks between systems, sharing data between the initial
user namespace and unprivileged containers, and other use-cases that
have been brought up. For example, assume a home directory where all
files are owned by uid and gid 1000 and the home directory is brought to
a new laptop where the user has id 12345. The system administrator can
simply create a mount of this home directory with a mapping of
1000:12345:1 and other mappings to indicate the ids should be kept.
(With this it is e.g. also possible to create idmapped mounts on the
host with an identity mapping 1:1:100000 where the root user is not
mapped. A user with root access that e.g. has been pivot rooted into
such a mount on the host will be not be able to execute, read, write, or
create files as root.)

Given that mapping a mount is decoupled from the caller's user namespace
a sufficiently privileged process such as a container manager can set up
an idmapped mount for the container and the container can simply pivot
root to it. There's no need for the container to do anything. The mount
will appear correctly mapped independent of the user namespace the
container uses. This means we don't need to mark a mount as idmappable.

In order to create an idmapped mount the caller must currently be
privileged in the user namespace of the superblock the mount belongs to.
Once a mount has been idmapped we don't allow it to change its mapping.
This keeps permission checking and life-cycle management simple. Users
wanting to change the idmapped can always create a new detached mount
with a different idmapping.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-36-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Mauricio Vásquez Bernal &lt;mauricio@kinvolk.io&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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<title>mount: attach mappings to mounts</title>
<updated>2021-01-24T13:27:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
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<published>2021-01-21T13:19:20Z</published>
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In order to support per-mount idmappings vfsmounts are marked with user
namespaces. The idmapping of the user namespace will be used to map the
ids of vfs objects when they are accessed through that mount. By default
all vfsmounts are marked with the initial user namespace. The initial
user namespace is used to indicate that a mount is not idmapped. All
operations behave as before.

Based on prior discussions we want to attach the whole user namespace
and not just a dedicated idmapping struct. This allows us to reuse all
the helpers that already exist for dealing with idmappings instead of
introducing a whole new range of helpers. In addition, if we decide in
the future that we are confident enough to enable unprivileged users to
setup idmapped mounts the permission checking can take into account
whether the caller is privileged in the user namespace the mount is
currently marked with.
Later patches enforce that once a mount has been idmapped it can't be
remapped. This keeps permission checking and life-cycle management
simple. Users wanting to change the idmapped can always create a new
detached mount with a different idmapping.

Add a new mnt_userns member to vfsmount and two simple helpers to
retrieve the mnt_userns from vfsmounts and files.

The idea to attach user namespaces to vfsmounts has been floated around
in various forms at Linux Plumbers in ~2018 with the original idea
tracing back to a discussion in 2017 at a conference in St. Petersburg
between Christoph, Tycho, and myself.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210121131959.646623-2-christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
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<title>vfs: don't unnecessarily clone write access for writable fds</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T19:02:08Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-22T16:44:18Z</published>
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There's no need for mnt_want_write_file() to increment mnt_writers when
the file is already open for writing, provided that
mnt_drop_write_file() is changed to conditionally decrement it.

We seem to have ended up in the current situation because
mnt_want_write_file() used to be paired with mnt_drop_write(), due to
mnt_drop_write_file() not having been added yet.  So originally
mnt_want_write_file() had to always increment mnt_writers.

But later mnt_drop_write_file() was added, and all callers of
mnt_want_write_file() were paired with it.  This makes the compatibility
between mnt_want_write_file() and mnt_drop_write() no longer necessary.

Therefore, make __mnt_want_write_file() and __mnt_drop_write_file() skip
incrementing mnt_writers on files already open for writing.  This
removes the only caller of mnt_clone_write(), so remove that too.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.</title>
<updated>2020-08-27T20:06:47Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Mattias Nissler</name>
<email>mnissler@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-27T17:09:46Z</published>
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For mounts that have the new "nosymfollow" option, don't follow symlinks
when resolving paths. The new option is similar in spirit to the
existing "nodev", "noexec", and "nosuid" options, as well as to the
LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS resolve flag in the openat2(2) syscall. Various BSD
variants have been supporting the "nosymfollow" mount option for a long
time with equivalent implementations.

Note that symlinks may still be created on file systems mounted with
the "nosymfollow" option present. readlink() remains functional, so
user space code that is aware of symlinks can still choose to follow
them explicitly.

Setting the "nosymfollow" mount option helps prevent privileged
writers from modifying files unintentionally in case there is an
unexpected link along the accessed path. The "nosymfollow" option is
thus useful as a defensive measure for systems that need to deal with
untrusted file systems in privileged contexts.

More information on the history and motivation for this patch can be
found here:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/hardening-against-malicious-stateful-data#TOC-Restricting-symlink-traversal

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler &lt;mnissler@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'ovl-update-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-06-09T22:40:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-06-09T22:40:50Z</published>
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Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "Fixes:

   - Resolve mount option conflicts consistently

   - Sync before remount R/O

   - Fix file handle encoding corner cases

   - Fix metacopy related issues

   - Fix an unintialized return value

   - Add missing permission checks for underlying layers

  Optimizations:

   - Allow multipe whiteouts to share an inode

   - Optimize small writes by inheriting SB_NOSEC from upper layer

   - Do not call -&gt;syncfs() multiple times for sync(2)

   - Do not cache negative lookups on upper layer

   - Make private internal mounts longterm"

* tag 'ovl-update-5.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (27 commits)
  ovl: remove unnecessary lock check
  ovl: make oip-&gt;index bool
  ovl: only pass -&gt;ki_flags to ovl_iocb_to_rwf()
  ovl: make private mounts longterm
  ovl: get rid of redundant members in struct ovl_fs
  ovl: add accessor for ofs-&gt;upper_mnt
  ovl: initialize error in ovl_copy_xattr
  ovl: drop negative dentry in upper layer
  ovl: check permission to open real file
  ovl: call secutiry hook in ovl_real_ioctl()
  ovl: verify permissions in ovl_path_open()
  ovl: switch to mounter creds in readdir
  ovl: pass correct flags for opening real directory
  ovl: fix redirect traversal on metacopy dentries
  ovl: initialize OVL_UPPERDATA in ovl_lookup()
  ovl: use only uppermetacopy state in ovl_lookup()
  ovl: simplify setting of origin for index lookup
  ovl: fix out of bounds access warning in ovl_check_fb_len()
  ovl: return required buffer size for file handles
  ovl: sync dirty data when remounting to ro mode
  ...
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