From 93faccbbfa958a9668d3ab4e30f38dd205cee8d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 06:06:16 +1300 Subject: 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 Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- include/linux/mount.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/mount.h') diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h index c6f55158d5e5..8e0352af06b7 100644 --- a/include/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/linux/mount.h @@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ struct file_system_type; extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type, int flags, const char *name, void *data); +extern struct vfsmount *vfs_submount(const struct dentry *mountpoint, + struct file_system_type *type, + const char *name, void *data); extern void mnt_set_expiry(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct list_head *expiry_list); extern void mark_mounts_for_expiry(struct list_head *mounts); -- cgit v1.3