On nfsv2 and nfsv3 the nfs server can export subsets of the same
filesystem and report the same filesystem identifier, so that the nfs
client can know they are the same filesystem.  The subsets can be from
disjoint directory trees.  The nfsv2 and nfsv3 filesystems provides no
way to find the common root of all directory trees exported form the
server with the same filesystem identifier.

The practical result is that in struct super s_root for nfs s_root is
not necessarily the root of the filesystem.  The nfs mount code sets
s_root to the root of the first subset of the nfs filesystem that the
kernel mounts.

This effects the dcache invalidation code in generic_shutdown_super
currently called shrunk_dcache_for_umount and that code for years
has gone through an additional list of dentries that might be dentry
trees that need to be freed to accomodate nfs.

When I wrote path_connected I did not realize nfs was so special, and
it's hueristic for avoiding calling is_subdir can fail.

The practical case where this fails is when there is a move of a
directory from the subtree exposed by one nfs mount to the subtree
exposed by another nfs mount.  This move can happen either locally or
remotely.  With the remote case requiring that the move directory be cached
before the move and that after the move someone walks the path
to where the move directory now exists and in so doing causes the
already cached directory to be moved in the dcache through the magic
of d_splice_alias.

If someone whose working directory is in the move directory or a
subdirectory and now starts calling .. from the initial mount of nfs
(where s_root == mnt_root), then path_connected as a heuristic will
not bother with the is_subdir check.  As s_root really is not the root
of the nfs filesystem this heuristic is wrong, and the path may
actually not be connected and path_connected can fail.

The is_subdir function might be cheap enough that we can call it
unconditionally.  Verifying that will take some benchmarking and
the result may not be the same on all kernels this fix needs
to be backported to.  So I am avoiding that for now.

Filesystems with snapshots such as nilfs and btrfs do something
similar.  But as the directory tree of the snapshots are disjoint
from one another and from the main directory tree rename won't move
things between them and this problem will not occur.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Fixes: 397d425dc26d ("vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root")
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...

Pull mqueue/bpf vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "mqueue and bpf go through rather painful and similar contortions to
  create objects in their dentry trees. Provide a primitive for doing
  that without abusing ->mknod(), switch bpf and mqueue to it.

  Another mqueue-related thing that has ended up in that branch is
  on-demand creation of internal mount (based upon the work of Giuseppe
  Scrivano)"

* 'work.mqueue' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount
  tidy do_mq_open() up a bit
  mqueue: clean prepare_open() up
  do_mq_open(): move all work prior to dentry_open() into a helper
  mqueue: fold mq_attr_ok() into mqueue_get_inode()
  move dentry_open() calls up into do_mq_open()
  mqueue: switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->d_fsdata
  bpf_obj_do_pin(): switch to vfs_mkobj(), quit abusing ->mknod()
  new primitive: vfs_mkobj()

Pull userns updates from Eric Biederman:
 "Between the holidays and other distractions only a small amount of
  namespace work made it into my tree this time.

  Just a final cleanup from a revert several kernels ago and a small
  typo fix from Wolffhardt Schwabe"

* 'userns-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
  fix typo in assignment of fs default overflow gid
  autofs4: Modify autofs_wait to use current_uid() and current_gid()
  userns: Don't fail follow_automount based on s_user_ns

Since commit 9c630ebefeee ("ovl: simplify permission checking"),
overlayfs doesn't call __inode_permission() anymore, which leaves no
users other than inode_permission().  So just fold it back into
inode_permission().

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Similar to vfs_create(), but with caller-supplied callback (and
argument for it) to be used instead of ->create().

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

When vfs_submount was added the test to limit automounts from
filesystems that with s_user_ns != &init_user_ns accidentially left
in follow_automount.  The test was never about any security concerns
and was always about how do we implement this for filesystems whose
s_user_ns != &init_user_ns.

At the moment this check makes no difference as there are no
filesystems that both set FS_USERNS_MOUNT and implement d_automount.

Remove this check now while I am thinking about it so there will not
be odd booby traps for someone who does want to make this combination
work.

vfs_submount still needs improvements to allow this combination to work,
and vfs_submount contains a check that presents a warning.

The autofs4 filesystem could be modified to set FS_USERNS_MOUNT and it would
need not work on this code path, as userspace performs the mounts.

Fixes: 93faccbbfa95 ("fs: Better permission checking for submounts")
Fixes: aeaa4a79ff6a ("fs: Call d_automount with the filesystems creds")
Acked-by:  Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Commit 42f461482178 ("autofs: fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored")
allowed the fstatat(2) system call to properly honor the AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT
flag but introduced a semantic change.

In order to honor AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT a semantic change was made to the
negative dentry case for stat family system calls in follow_automount().

This changed the unconditional triggering of an automount in this case
to no longer be done and an error returned instead.

This has caused more problems than I expected so reverting the change is
needed.

In a discussion with Neil Brown it was concluded that the automount(8)
daemon can implement this change without kernel modifications.  So that
will be done instead and the autofs module documentation updated with a
description of the problem and what needs to be done by module users for
this specific case.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151174730120.6162.3848002191530283984.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Fixes: 42f4614821 ("autofs: fix AT_NO_AUTOMOUNT not being honored")
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Colin Walters <walters@redhat.com>
Cc: Ondrej Holy <oholy@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>	[4.11+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff, really no common topic here"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  vfs: grab the lock instead of blocking in __fd_install during resizing
  vfs: stop clearing close on exec when closing a fd
  include/linux/fs.h: fix comment about struct address_space
  fs: make fiemap work from compat_ioctl
  coda: fix 'kernel memory exposure attempt' in fsync
  pstore: remove unneeded unlikely()
  vfs: remove unneeded unlikely()
  stubs for mount_bdev() and kill_block_super() in !CONFIG_BLOCK case
  make vfs_ustat() static
  do_handle_open() should be static
  elf_fdpic: fix unused variable warning
  fold destroy_super() into __put_super()
  new helper: destroy_unused_super()
  fix address space warnings in ipc/
  acct.h: get rid of detritus

Pull compat and uaccess updates from Al Viro:

 - {get,put}_compat_sigset() series

 - assorted compat ioctl stuff

 - more set_fs() elimination

 - a few more timespec64 conversions

 - several removals of pointless access_ok() in places where it was
   followed only by non-__ variants of primitives

* 'misc.compat' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (24 commits)
  coredump: call do_unlinkat directly instead of sys_unlink
  fs: expose do_unlinkat for built-in callers
  ext4: take handling of EXT4_IOC_GROUP_ADD into a helper, get rid of set_fs()
  ipmi: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  pi433: sanitize ioctl
  cxlflash: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  mtdchar: get rid of pointless access_ok()
  r128: switch compat ioctls to drm_ioctl_kernel()
  selection: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  VT_RESIZEX: get rid of field-by-field copyin
  i2c compat ioctls: move to ->compat_ioctl()
  sched_rr_get_interval(): move compat to native, get rid of set_fs()
  mips: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  sparc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  s390: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  ppc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  parisc: switch to {get,put}_compat_sigset()
  get_compat_sigset()
  get rid of {get,put}_compat_itimerspec()
  io_getevents: Use timespec64 to represent timeouts
  ...