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<title>Merge tag 'fs.idmapped.mnt_idmap.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping</title>
<updated>2022-12-13T03:30:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-12-13T03:30:18+00:00</published>
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Pull idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:
 "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 namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem - with
  namespaces that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for
  filesystem developers without detailed knowledge in this area this can
  be a potential 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 completely obivious
  about this ultimately and filesystems will never interact with it in
  any form in the future.

  A struct mnt_idmap currently encompasses a simple refcount and 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 and if it
  doesn't that it is idmapped. 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 is created a struct mnt_idmap is allocated and a
  reference taken on the relevant namespace. Each mount that gets
  idmapped or inherits the idmap simply bumps the reference count on
  struct mnt_idmap. 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 but this will have huge
  benefits for maintenance and security in the long run even if it
  causes some churn.

  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"

* tag 'fs.idmapped.mnt_idmap.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping:
  acl: conver higher-level helpers to rely on mnt_idmap
  fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts
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Pull idmapping updates from Christian Brauner:
 "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 namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem - with
  namespaces that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for
  filesystem developers without detailed knowledge in this area this can
  be a potential 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 completely obivious
  about this ultimately and filesystems will never interact with it in
  any form in the future.

  A struct mnt_idmap currently encompasses a simple refcount and 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 and if it
  doesn't that it is idmapped. 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 is created a struct mnt_idmap is allocated and a
  reference taken on the relevant namespace. Each mount that gets
  idmapped or inherits the idmap simply bumps the reference count on
  struct mnt_idmap. 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 but this will have huge
  benefits for maintenance and security in the long run even if it
  causes some churn.

  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"

* tag 'fs.idmapped.mnt_idmap.v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/idmapping:
  acl: conver higher-level helpers to rely on mnt_idmap
  fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts
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<entry>
<title>copy_mnt_ns(): handle a corner case (overmounted mntns bindings) saner</title>
<updated>2022-11-25T03:55:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-11-25T03:55:57+00:00</published>
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copy_mnt_ns() has the old tree copied, with mntns binding *and* anything
bound on top of them skipped.  Then it proceeds to walk both trees in
parallel.  Unfortunately, it doesn't get the "skip the stuff we'd skipped
when copying" quite right.  Consequences are minor (the -&gt;mnt_root
comparison will return the situation to sanity pretty soon and the worst
we get is the unexpected subset of opened non-directories being switched
to new namespace), but it's confusing enough and it's not hard to get
the expected behaviour...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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copy_mnt_ns() has the old tree copied, with mntns binding *and* anything
bound on top of them skipped.  Then it proceeds to walk both trees in
parallel.  Unfortunately, it doesn't get the "skip the stuff we'd skipped
when copying" quite right.  Consequences are minor (the -&gt;mnt_root
comparison will return the situation to sanity pretty soon and the worst
we get is the unexpected subset of opened non-directories being switched
to new namespace), but it's confusing enough and it's not hard to get
the expected behaviour...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts</title>
<updated>2022-10-31T16:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-10-26T10:51:27+00:00</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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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;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: require CAP_SYS_ADMIN in target namespace for idmapped mounts</title>
<updated>2022-08-17T09:27:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Seth Forshee</name>
<email>sforshee@digitalocean.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-08-16T16:47:52+00:00</published>
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Idmapped mounts should not allow a user to map file ownsership into a
range of ids which is not under the control of that user. However, we
currently don't check whether the mounter is privileged wrt to the
target user namespace.

Currently no FS_USERNS_MOUNT filesystems support idmapped mounts, thus
this is not a problem as only CAP_SYS_ADMIN in init_user_ns is allowed
to set up idmapped mounts. But this could change in the future, so add a
check to refuse to create idmapped mounts when the mounter does not have
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the target user namespace.

Fixes: bd303368b776 ("fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystems")
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;sforshee@digitalocean.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816164752.2595240-1-sforshee@digitalocean.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Idmapped mounts should not allow a user to map file ownsership into a
range of ids which is not under the control of that user. However, we
currently don't check whether the mounter is privileged wrt to the
target user namespace.

Currently no FS_USERNS_MOUNT filesystems support idmapped mounts, thus
this is not a problem as only CAP_SYS_ADMIN in init_user_ns is allowed
to set up idmapped mounts. But this could change in the future, so add a
check to refuse to create idmapped mounts when the mounter does not have
CAP_SYS_ADMIN in the target user namespace.

Fixes: bd303368b776 ("fs: support mapped mounts of mapped filesystems")
Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee &lt;sforshee@digitalocean.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220816164752.2595240-1-sforshee@digitalocean.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>switch try_to_unlazy_next() to __legitimize_mnt()</title>
<updated>2022-07-05T20:18:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-07-05T16:22:46+00:00</published>
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The tricky case (__legitimize_mnt() failing after having grabbed
a reference) can be trivially dealt with by leaving nd-&gt;path.mnt
non-NULL, for terminate_walk() to drop it.

legitimize_mnt() becomes static after that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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The tricky case (__legitimize_mnt() failing after having grabbed
a reference) can be trivially dealt with by leaving nd-&gt;path.mnt
non-NULL, for terminate_walk() to drop it.

legitimize_mnt() becomes static after that.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pull-18-rc1-work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-06-05T02:00:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-06-05T02:00:05+00:00</published>
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Pull mount handling updates from Al Viro:
 "Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling.

  The fix is usermode_driver.c one - once you've done kern_mount(), you
  must kern_unmount(); simple mntput() will end up with a leak. Several
  failure exits in there messed up that way... In practice you won't hit
  those particular failure exits without fault injection, though"

* tag 'pull-18-rc1-work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  move mount-related externs from fs.h to mount.h
  blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount()
  m-&gt;mnt_root-&gt;d_inode-&gt;i_sb is a weird way to spell m-&gt;mnt_sb...
  linux/mount.h: trim includes
  uninline may_mount() and don't opencode it in fspick(2)/fsopen(2)
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Pull mount handling updates from Al Viro:
 "Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling.

  The fix is usermode_driver.c one - once you've done kern_mount(), you
  must kern_unmount(); simple mntput() will end up with a leak. Several
  failure exits in there messed up that way... In practice you won't hit
  those particular failure exits without fault injection, though"

* tag 'pull-18-rc1-work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  move mount-related externs from fs.h to mount.h
  blob_to_mnt(): kern_unmount() is needed to undo kern_mount()
  m-&gt;mnt_root-&gt;d_inode-&gt;i_sb is a weird way to spell m-&gt;mnt_sb...
  linux/mount.h: trim includes
  uninline may_mount() and don't opencode it in fspick(2)/fsopen(2)
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<entry>
<title>uninline may_mount() and don't opencode it in fspick(2)/fsopen(2)</title>
<updated>2022-05-20T03:25:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-01T05:05:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a5f85d7834f7e1456e799c79a2a83fc11b90cfe2'/>
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It's done once per (mount-related) syscall and there's no point
whatsoever making it inline.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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It's done once per (mount-related) syscall and there's no point
whatsoever making it inline.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: hold writers when changing mount's idmapping</title>
<updated>2022-05-12T08:12:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>christian.brauner@ubuntu.com</email>
</author>
<published>2022-05-10T09:58:40+00:00</published>
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Hold writers when changing a mount's idmapping to make it more robust.

The vfs layer takes care to retrieve the idmapping of a mount once
ensuring that the idmapping used for vfs permission checking is
identical to the idmapping passed down to the filesystem.

For ioctl codepaths the filesystem itself is responsible for taking the
idmapping into account if they need to. While all filesystems with
FS_ALLOW_IDMAP raised take the same precautions as the vfs we should
enforce it explicitly by making sure there are no active writers on the
relevant mount while changing the idmapping.

This is similar to turning a mount ro with the difference that in
contrast to turning a mount ro changing the idmapping can only ever be
done once while a mount can transition between ro and rw as much as it
wants.

This is a minor user-visible change. But it is extremely unlikely to
matter. The caller must've created a detached mount via OPEN_TREE_CLONE
and then handed that O_PATH fd to another process or thread which then
must've gotten a writable fd for that mount and started creating files
in there while the caller is still changing mount properties. While not
impossible it will be an extremely rare corner-case and should in
general be considered a bug in the application. Consider making a mount
MOUNT_ATTR_NOEXEC or MOUNT_ATTR_NODEV while allowing someone else to
perform lookups or exec'ing in parallel by handing them a copy of the
OPEN_TREE_CLONE fd or another fd beneath that mount.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510095840.152264-1-brauner@kernel.org
Cc: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@digitalocean.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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Hold writers when changing a mount's idmapping to make it more robust.

The vfs layer takes care to retrieve the idmapping of a mount once
ensuring that the idmapping used for vfs permission checking is
identical to the idmapping passed down to the filesystem.

For ioctl codepaths the filesystem itself is responsible for taking the
idmapping into account if they need to. While all filesystems with
FS_ALLOW_IDMAP raised take the same precautions as the vfs we should
enforce it explicitly by making sure there are no active writers on the
relevant mount while changing the idmapping.

This is similar to turning a mount ro with the difference that in
contrast to turning a mount ro changing the idmapping can only ever be
done once while a mount can transition between ro and rw as much as it
wants.

This is a minor user-visible change. But it is extremely unlikely to
matter. The caller must've created a detached mount via OPEN_TREE_CLONE
and then handed that O_PATH fd to another process or thread which then
must've gotten a writable fd for that mount and started creating files
in there while the caller is still changing mount properties. While not
impossible it will be an extremely rare corner-case and should in
general be considered a bug in the application. Consider making a mount
MOUNT_ATTR_NOEXEC or MOUNT_ATTR_NODEV while allowing someone else to
perform lookups or exec'ing in parallel by handing them a copy of the
OPEN_TREE_CLONE fd or another fd beneath that mount.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220510095840.152264-1-brauner@kernel.org
Cc: Seth Forshee &lt;seth.forshee@digitalocean.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>fs: unset MNT_WRITE_HOLD on failure</title>
<updated>2022-04-21T15:57:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christian Brauner</name>
<email>brauner@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-20T13:19:25+00:00</published>
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After mnt_hold_writers() has been called we will always have set MNT_WRITE_HOLD
and consequently we always need to pair mnt_hold_writers() with
mnt_unhold_writers(). After the recent cleanup in [1] where Al switched from a
do-while to a for loop the cleanup currently fails to unset MNT_WRITE_HOLD for
the first mount that was changed. Fix this and make sure that the first mount
will be cleaned up and add some comments to make it more obvious.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000007cc21d05dd0432b8@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00000000000080e10e05dd043247@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420131925.2464685-1-brauner@kernel.org
Fixes: e257039f0fc7 ("mount_setattr(): clean the control flow and calling conventions") [1]
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+10a16d1c43580983f6a2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+306090cfa3294f0bbfb3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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After mnt_hold_writers() has been called we will always have set MNT_WRITE_HOLD
and consequently we always need to pair mnt_hold_writers() with
mnt_unhold_writers(). After the recent cleanup in [1] where Al switched from a
do-while to a for loop the cleanup currently fails to unset MNT_WRITE_HOLD for
the first mount that was changed. Fix this and make sure that the first mount
will be cleaned up and add some comments to make it more obvious.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000007cc21d05dd0432b8@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00000000000080e10e05dd043247@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220420131925.2464685-1-brauner@kernel.org
Fixes: e257039f0fc7 ("mount_setattr(): clean the control flow and calling conventions") [1]
Cc: Hillf Danton &lt;hdanton@sina.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+10a16d1c43580983f6a2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+306090cfa3294f0bbfb3@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) &lt;brauner@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2022-04-02T02:57:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-04-02T02:57:03+00:00</published>
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: drop needless assignment in aio_read()
  clean overflow checks in count_mounts() a bit
  seq_file: fix NULL pointer arithmetic warning
  uml/x86: use x86 load_unaligned_zeropad()
  asm/user.h: killed unused macros
  constify struct path argument of finish_automount()/do_add_mount()
  fs: Remove FIXME comment in generic_write_checks()
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Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted bits and pieces"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  aio: drop needless assignment in aio_read()
  clean overflow checks in count_mounts() a bit
  seq_file: fix NULL pointer arithmetic warning
  uml/x86: use x86 load_unaligned_zeropad()
  asm/user.h: killed unused macros
  constify struct path argument of finish_automount()/do_add_mount()
  fs: Remove FIXME comment in generic_write_checks()
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