Thread (74 messages) 74 messages, 3 authors, 2014-09-16
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[PATCH 3.10 41/71] mnt: Move the test for MNT_LOCK_READONLY from change_mount_flags into do_remount

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2014-09-15 19:58:44
Also in: lkml

3.10-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>

commit 07b645589dcda8b7a5249e096fece2a67556f0f4 upstream.

There are no races as locked mount flags are guaranteed to never change.

Moving the test into do_remount makes it more visible, and ensures all
filesystem remounts pass the MNT_LOCK_READONLY permission check.  This
second case is not an issue today as filesystem remounts are guarded
by capable(CAP_DAC_ADMIN) and thus will always fail in less privileged
mount namespaces, but it could become an issue in the future.

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <redacted>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/namespace.c |   13 ++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1764,9 +1764,6 @@ static int change_mount_flags(struct vfs
 	if (readonly_request == __mnt_is_readonly(mnt))
 		return 0;
 
-	if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_LOCK_READONLY)
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	if (readonly_request)
 		error = mnt_make_readonly(real_mount(mnt));
 	else
@@ -1792,6 +1789,16 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path,
 	if (path->dentry != path->mnt->mnt_root)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* Don't allow changing of locked mnt flags.
+	 *
+	 * No locks need to be held here while testing the various
+	 * MNT_LOCK flags because those flags can never be cleared
+	 * once they are set.
+	 */
+	if ((mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCK_READONLY) &&
+	    !(mnt_flags & MNT_READONLY)) {
+		return -EPERM;
+	}
 	err = security_sb_remount(sb, data);
 	if (err)
 		return err;

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