On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:58:23PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 07:43:22PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

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On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 05:25:49PM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

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On Tue, Mar 03, 2020 at 08:46:09AM +0100, Miklos Szeredi wrote:

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I'm doing a patch.   Let's see how it fares in the face of all these
preconceptions.

Here's a first cut.  Doesn't yet have superblock info, just mount info.
Probably has rough edges, but appears to work.

For starters, you have just made namespace_sem held over copy_to_user().
This is not going to fly.

In case if the above is too terse: you grab your mutex while under
namespace_sem (see attach_recursive_mnt()); the same mutex is held
while calling dir_emit().  Which can (and normally does) copy data
to userland-supplied buffer.

NAK for that reason alone, and to be honest I had been too busy
suppressing the gag reflex to read and comment any deeper.

I really hate that approach, in case it's not clear from the above.
To the degree that I don't trust myself to filter out the obscenities
if I try to comment on it right now.

The only blocking thing we can afford under namespace_sem is GFP_KERNEL
allocation.

Incidentally, attach_recursive_mnt() only gets you the root(s) of
attached tree(s); try mount --rbind and see how much you've missed.