linux-stable.git/fs/namespace.c, branch v3.2.78

mnt: Change the default remount atime from relatime to the existing value

2014-09-13T22:41:41+00:00

commit ffbc6f0ead47fa5a1dc9642b0331cb75c20a640e upstream.

Since March 2009 the kernel has treated the state that if no
MS_..ATIME flags are passed then the kernel defaults to relatime.

Defaulting to relatime instead of the existing atime state during a
remount is silly, and causes problems in practice for people who don't
specify any MS_...ATIME flags and to get the default filesystem atime
setting.  Those users may encounter a permission error because the
default atime setting does not work.

A default that does not work and causes permission problems is
ridiculous, so preserve the existing value to have a default
atime setting that is always guaranteed to work.

Using the default atime setting in this way is particularly
interesting for applications built to run in restricted userspace
environments without /proc mounted, as the existing atime mount
options of a filesystem can not be read from /proc/mounts.

In practice this fixes user space that uses the default atime
setting on remount that are broken by the permission checks
keeping less privileged users from changing more privileged users
atime settings.

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn 
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: add definition of MNT_ATIME_MASK, as we don't
 need the fix that introduced that definition upstream]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

vfs: umount_tree() might be called on subtree that had never made it

2012-06-10T13:41:51+00:00

commit 63d37a84ab6004c235314ffd7a76c5eb28c2fae0 upstream.

__mnt_make_shortterm() in there undoes the effect of __mnt_make_longterm()
we'd done back when we set ->mnt_ns non-NULL; it should not be done to
vfsmounts that had never gone through commit_tree() and friends.  Kudos to
lczerner for catching that one...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

fix apparmor dereferencing potentially freed dentry, sanitize __d_path() API

2011-12-07T04:57:18+00:00

__d_path() API is asking for trouble and in case of apparmor d_namespace_path()
getting just that.  The root cause is that when __d_path() misses the root
it had been told to look for, it stores the location of the most remote ancestor
in *root.  Without grabbing references.  Sure, at the moment of call it had
been pinned down by what we have in *path.  And if we raced with umount -l, we
could have very well stopped at vfsmount/dentry that got freed as soon as
prepend_path() dropped vfsmount_lock.

It is safe to compare these pointers with pre-existing (and known to be still
alive) vfsmount and dentry, as long as all we are asking is "is it the same
address?".  Dereferencing is not safe and apparmor ended up stepping into
that.  d_namespace_path() really wants to examine the place where we stopped,
even if it's not connected to our namespace.  As the result, it looked
at ->d_sb->s_magic of a dentry that might've been already freed by that point.
All other callers had been careful enough to avoid that, but it's really
a bad interface - it invites that kind of trouble.

The fix is fairly straightforward, even though it's bigger than I'd like:
	* prepend_path() root argument becomes const.
	* __d_path() is never called with NULL/NULL root.  It was a kludge
to start with.  Instead, we have an explicit function - d_absolute_root().
Same as __d_path(), except that it doesn't get root passed and stops where
it stops.  apparmor and tomoyo are using it.
	* __d_path() returns NULL on path outside of root.  The main
caller is show_mountinfo() and that's precisely what we pass root for - to
skip those outside chroot jail.  Those who don't want that can (and do)
use d_path().
	* __d_path() root argument becomes const.  Everyone agrees, I hope.
	* apparmor does *NOT* try to use __d_path() or any of its variants
when it sees that path->mnt is an internal vfsmount.  In that case it's
definitely not mounted anywhere and dentry_path() is exactly what we want
there.  Handling of sysctl()-triggered weirdness is moved to that place.
	* if apparmor is asked to do pathname relative to chroot jail
and __d_path() tells it we it's not in that jail, the sucker just calls
d_absolute_path() instead.  That's the other remaining caller of __d_path(),
BTW.
        * seq_path_root() does _NOT_ return -ENAMETOOLONG (it's stupid anyway -
the normal seq_file logics will take care of growing the buffer and redoing
the call of ->show() just fine).  However, if it gets path not reachable
from root, it returns SEQ_SKIP.  The only caller adjusted (i.e. stopped
ignoring the return value as it used to do).

Reviewed-by: John Johansen 
ACKed-by: John Johansen 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

mount_subtree() pointless use-after-free

2011-11-22T17:31:21+00:00

d'oh... we'd carefully pinned mnt->mnt_sb down, dropped mnt and attempt
to grab s_umount on mnt->mnt_sb.  The trouble is, *mnt might've been
overwritten by now...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

new helper: mount_subtree()

2011-11-17T03:00:34+00:00

takes vfsmount and relative path, does lookup within that vfsmount
(possibly triggering automounts) and returns the result as root
of subtree suitable for return by ->mount() (i.e. a reference to
dentry and an active reference to its superblock grabbed, superblock
locked exclusive).

btrfs and nfs switched to it instead of open-coding the sucker.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

switch create_mnt_ns() to saner calling conventions, fix double mntput() in nfs

2011-11-16T21:12:14+00:00

Life is much saner if create_mnt_ns(mnt) drops mnt in case of error...
Switch it to such calling conventions, switch callers, fix double mntput() in
fs/nfs/super.c one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

vfs: add "device" tag to /proc/self/mountstats

2011-10-28T11:55:08+00:00

nfsiostat was failing to find mounted filesystems on kernels after
2.6.38 because of changes to show_vfsstat() by commit
c7f404b40a3665d9f4e9a927cc5c1ee0479ed8f9.  This patch adds back the
"device" tag before the nfs server entry so scripts can parse the
mountstats file correctly.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Schumaker 
CC: stable@kernel.org [>=2.6.39]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig

VFS: Fix the remaining automounter semantics regressions

2011-09-27T02:16:46+00:00

The concensus seems to be that system calls such as stat() etc should
not trigger an automount.  Neither should the l* versions.

This patch therefore adds a LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT flag to tag those lookups
that _should_ trigger an automount on the last path element.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust 
[ Edited to leave out the cases that are already covered by LOOKUP_OPEN,
  LOOKUP_DIRECTORY and LOOKUP_CREATE - all of which also fundamentally
  force automounting for their own reasons   - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

VFS : mount lock scalability for internal mounts

2011-07-24T14:08:32+00:00

For a number of file systems that don't have a mount point (e.g. sockfs
and pipefs), they are not marked as long term. Therefore in
mntput_no_expire, all locks in vfs_mount lock are taken instead of just
local cpu's lock to aggregate reference counts when we release
reference to file objects.  In fact, only local lock need to have been
taken to update ref counts as these file systems are in no danger of
going away until we are ready to unregister them.

The attached patch marks file systems using kern_mount without
mount point as long term.  The contentions of vfs_mount lock
is now eliminated.  Before un-registering such file system,
kern_unmount should be called to remove the long term flag and
make the mount point ready to be freed.

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

fs: seq_file - add event counter to simplify poll() support

2011-07-21T00:47:50+00:00

Moving the event counter into the dynamically allocated 'struc seq_file'
allows poll() support without the need to allocate its own tracking
structure.

All current users are switched over to use the new counter.

Requested-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Acked-by: NeilBrown 
Tested-by: Lucas De Marchi lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro