<feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'>
<title>linux.git/fs/namespace.c, branch v5.11</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/'/>
<entry>
<title>umount(2): move the flag validity checks first</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T20:31:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-04T20:25:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a0a6df9afcaf439a6b4c88a3b522e3d05fdef46f'/>
<id>a0a6df9afcaf439a6b4c88a3b522e3d05fdef46f</id>
<content type='text'>
Unfortunately, there's userland code that used to rely upon these
checks being done before anything else to check for UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW
support.  That broke in 41525f56e256 ("fs: refactor ksys_umount").
Separate those from the rest of checks and move them to ksys_umount();
unlike everything else in there, this can be sanely done there.

Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Fixes: 41525f56e256 ("fs: refactor ksys_umount")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Unfortunately, there's userland code that used to rely upon these
checks being done before anything else to check for UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW
support.  That broke in 41525f56e256 ("fs: refactor ksys_umount").
Separate those from the rest of checks and move them to ksys_umount();
unlike everything else in there, this can be sanely done there.

Reported-by: Sargun Dhillon &lt;sargun@sargun.me&gt;
Fixes: 41525f56e256 ("fs: refactor ksys_umount")
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-12-25T18:54:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-25T18:54:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7bb5226c8a4bbf26a9ededc90532b0ad539d2017'/>
<id>7bb5226c8a4bbf26a9ededc90532b0ad539d2017</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted patches from previous cycle(s)..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix hostfs_open() use of -&gt;f_path.dentry
  Make sure that make_create_in_sticky() never sees uninitialized value of dir_mode
  fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set
  fs: Handle I_DONTCACHE in iput_final() instead of generic_drop_inode()
  fs/namespace.c: WARN if mnt_count has become negative
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted patches from previous cycle(s)..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fix hostfs_open() use of -&gt;f_path.dentry
  Make sure that make_create_in_sticky() never sees uninitialized value of dir_mode
  fs: Kill DCACHE_DONTCACHE dentry even if DCACHE_REFERENCED is set
  fs: Handle I_DONTCACHE in iput_final() instead of generic_drop_inode()
  fs/namespace.c: WARN if mnt_count has become negative
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux</title>
<updated>2020-12-15T00:40:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T00:40:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f9b4240b074730f41c1ef8e0d695d10fb5bb1e27'/>
<id>f9b4240b074730f41c1ef8e0d695d10fb5bb1e27</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a
  single branch:

   - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces()

   - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The
     lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types.
     Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and
     these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the
     counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one
     place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical
     for all namespaces.

   - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's
     PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak.

   - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment
     annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken
     into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use
     fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this
     tree-wide.

     Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I
     didn't rebase and kept them"

* tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces()
  sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  time: Use generic ns_common::count
  cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count
  mnt: Use generic ns_common::count
  user: Use generic ns_common::count
  pid: Use generic ns_common::count
  ipc: Use generic ns_common::count
  uts: Use generic ns_common::count
  net: Use generic ns_common::count
  ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common
  ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull misc fixes from Christian Brauner:
 "This contains several fixes which felt worth being combined into a
  single branch:

   - Use put_nsproxy() instead of open-coding it switch_task_namespaces()

   - Kirill's work to unify lifecycle management for all namespaces. The
     lifetime counters are used identically for all namespaces types.
     Namespaces may of course have additional unrelated counters and
     these are not altered. This work allows us to unify the type of the
     counters and reduces maintenance cost by moving the counter in one
     place and indicating that basic lifetime management is identical
     for all namespaces.

   - Peilin's fix adding three byte padding to Dmitry's
     PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO uapi struct to prevent an info leak.

   - Two smal patches to convert from the /* fall through */ comment
     annotation to the fallthrough keyword annotation which I had taken
     into my branch and into -next before df561f6688fe ("treewide: Use
     fallthrough pseudo-keyword") made it upstream which fixed this
     tree-wide.

     Since I didn't want to invalidate all testing for other commits I
     didn't rebase and kept them"

* tag 'fixes-v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
  nsproxy: use put_nsproxy() in switch_task_namespaces()
  sys: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  signal: Convert to the new fallthrough notation
  time: Use generic ns_common::count
  cgroup: Use generic ns_common::count
  mnt: Use generic ns_common::count
  user: Use generic ns_common::count
  pid: Use generic ns_common::count
  ipc: Use generic ns_common::count
  uts: Use generic ns_common::count
  net: Use generic ns_common::count
  ns: Add a common refcount into ns_common
  ptrace: Prevent kernel-infoleak in ptrace_get_syscall_info()
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs/namespace.c: WARN if mnt_count has become negative</title>
<updated>2020-12-10T22:33:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-01T04:40:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=edf7ddbf1c5eb98b720b063b73e20e8a4a1ce673'/>
<id>edf7ddbf1c5eb98b720b063b73e20e8a4a1ce673</id>
<content type='text'>
Missing calls to mntget() (or equivalently, too many calls to mntput())
are hard to detect because mntput() delays freeing mounts using
task_work_add(), then again using call_rcu().  As a result, mnt_count
can often be decremented to -1 without getting a KASAN use-after-free
report.  Such cases are still bugs though, and they point to real
use-after-frees being possible.

For an example of this, see the bug fixed by commit 1b0b9cc8d379
("vfs: fsmount: add missing mntget()"), discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190605135401.GB30925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u.
This bug *should* have been trivial to find.  But actually, it wasn't
found until syzkaller happened to use fchdir() to manipulate the
reference count just right for the bug to be noticeable.

Address this by making mntput_no_expire() issue a WARN if mnt_count has
become negative.

Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Missing calls to mntget() (or equivalently, too many calls to mntput())
are hard to detect because mntput() delays freeing mounts using
task_work_add(), then again using call_rcu().  As a result, mnt_count
can often be decremented to -1 without getting a KASAN use-after-free
report.  Such cases are still bugs though, and they point to real
use-after-frees being possible.

For an example of this, see the bug fixed by commit 1b0b9cc8d379
("vfs: fsmount: add missing mntget()"), discussed at
https://lkml.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20190605135401.GB30925@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/T/#u.
This bug *should* have been trivial to find.  But actually, it wasn't
found until syzkaller happened to use fchdir() to manipulate the
reference count just right for the bug to be noticeable.

Address this by making mntput_no_expire() issue a WARN if mnt_count has
become negative.

Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;miklos@szeredi.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-24T19:26:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-24T19:26:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0eac1102e94807023e57d032bbba51830928b78e'/>
<id>0eac1102e94807023e57d032bbba51830928b78e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff all over the place (the largest group here is
  Christoph's stat cleanups)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: remove KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS
  fs: remove vfs_stat_set_lookup_flags
  fs: move vfs_fstatat out of line
  fs: implement vfs_stat and vfs_lstat in terms of vfs_fstatat
  fs: remove vfs_statx_fd
  fs: omfs: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy
  [PATCH] reduce boilerplate in fsid handling
  fs: Remove duplicated flag O_NDELAY occurring twice in VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
  selftests: mount: add nosymfollow tests
  Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff all over the place (the largest group here is
  Christoph's stat cleanups)"

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: remove KSTAT_QUERY_FLAGS
  fs: remove vfs_stat_set_lookup_flags
  fs: move vfs_fstatat out of line
  fs: implement vfs_stat and vfs_lstat in terms of vfs_fstatat
  fs: remove vfs_statx_fd
  fs: omfs: use kmemdup() rather than kmalloc+memcpy
  [PATCH] reduce boilerplate in fsid handling
  fs: Remove duplicated flag O_NDELAY occurring twice in VALID_OPEN_FLAGS
  selftests: mount: add nosymfollow tests
  Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>task_work: cleanup notification modes</title>
<updated>2020-10-17T21:05:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jens Axboe</name>
<email>axboe@kernel.dk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-16T15:02:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=91989c707884ecc7cd537281ab1a4b8fb7219da3'/>
<id>91989c707884ecc7cd537281ab1a4b8fb7219da3</id>
<content type='text'>
A previous commit changed the notification mode from true/false to an
int, allowing notify-no, notify-yes, or signal-notify. This was
backwards compatible in the sense that any existing true/false user
would translate to either 0 (on notification sent) or 1, the latter
which mapped to TWA_RESUME. TWA_SIGNAL was assigned a value of 2.

Clean this up properly, and define a proper enum for the notification
mode. Now we have:

- TWA_NONE. This is 0, same as before the original change, meaning no
  notification requested.
- TWA_RESUME. This is 1, same as before the original change, meaning
  that we use TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.
- TWA_SIGNAL. This uses TIF_SIGPENDING/JOBCTL_TASK_WORK for the
  notification.

Clean up all the callers, switching their 0/1/false/true to using the
appropriate TWA_* mode for notifications.

Fixes: e91b48162332 ("task_work: teach task_work_add() to do signal_wake_up()")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
A previous commit changed the notification mode from true/false to an
int, allowing notify-no, notify-yes, or signal-notify. This was
backwards compatible in the sense that any existing true/false user
would translate to either 0 (on notification sent) or 1, the latter
which mapped to TWA_RESUME. TWA_SIGNAL was assigned a value of 2.

Clean this up properly, and define a proper enum for the notification
mode. Now we have:

- TWA_NONE. This is 0, same as before the original change, meaning no
  notification requested.
- TWA_RESUME. This is 1, same as before the original change, meaning
  that we use TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME.
- TWA_SIGNAL. This uses TIF_SIGPENDING/JOBCTL_TASK_WORK for the
  notification.

Clean up all the callers, switching their 0/1/false/true to using the
appropriate TWA_* mode for notifications.

Fixes: e91b48162332 ("task_work: teach task_work_add() to do signal_wake_up()")
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'compat.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2020-10-12T23:44:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-12T23:44:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=22230cd2c55bd27ee2c3a3def97c0d5577a75b82'/>
<id>22230cd2c55bd27ee2c3a3def97c0d5577a75b82</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull compat mount cleanups from Al Viro:
 "The last remnants of mount(2) compat buried by Christoph.

  Buried into NFS, that is.

  Generally I'm less enthusiastic about "let's use in_compat_syscall()
  deep in call chain" kind of approach than Christoph seems to be, but
  in this case it's warranted - that had been an NFS-specific wart,
  hopefully not to be repeated in any other filesystems (read: any new
  filesystem introducing non-text mount options will get NAKed even if
  it doesn't mess the layout up).

  IOW, not worth trying to grow an infrastructure that would avoid that
  use of in_compat_syscall()..."

* 'compat.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: remove compat_sys_mount
  fs,nfs: lift compat nfs4 mount data handling into the nfs code
  nfs: simplify nfs4_parse_monolithic
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull compat mount cleanups from Al Viro:
 "The last remnants of mount(2) compat buried by Christoph.

  Buried into NFS, that is.

  Generally I'm less enthusiastic about "let's use in_compat_syscall()
  deep in call chain" kind of approach than Christoph seems to be, but
  in this case it's warranted - that had been an NFS-specific wart,
  hopefully not to be repeated in any other filesystems (read: any new
  filesystem introducing non-text mount options will get NAKed even if
  it doesn't mess the layout up).

  IOW, not worth trying to grow an infrastructure that would avoid that
  use of in_compat_syscall()..."

* 'compat.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  fs: remove compat_sys_mount
  fs,nfs: lift compat nfs4 mount data handling into the nfs code
  nfs: simplify nfs4_parse_monolithic
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: remove compat_sys_mount</title>
<updated>2020-09-23T03:45:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-17T08:22:34+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565'/>
<id>028abd9222df0cf5855dab5014a5ebaf06f90565</id>
<content type='text'>
compat_sys_mount is identical to the regular sys_mount now, so remove it
and use the native version everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
compat_sys_mount is identical to the regular sys_mount now, so remove it
and use the native version everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: Handle intra-page faults in copy_mount_options()</title>
<updated>2020-09-04T11:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Catalin Marinas</name>
<email>catalin.marinas@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-07-01T16:46:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d563d678aa0be06e7bff2953c986f5ff0355f79c'/>
<id>d563d678aa0be06e7bff2953c986f5ff0355f79c</id>
<content type='text'>
The copy_mount_options() function takes a user pointer argument but no
size and it tries to read up to a PAGE_SIZE. However, copy_from_user()
is not guaranteed to return all the accessible bytes if, for example,
the access crosses a page boundary and gets a fault on the second page.
To work around this, the current copy_mount_options() implementation
performs two copy_from_user() passes, first to the end of the current
page and the second to what's left in the subsequent page.

On arm64 with MTE enabled, access to a user page may trigger a fault
after part of the buffer in a page has been copied (when the user
pointer tag, bits 56-59, no longer matches the allocation tag stored in
memory). Allow copy_mount_options() to handle such intra-page faults by
resorting to byte at a time copy in case of copy_from_user() failure.

Note that copy_from_user() handles the zeroing of the kernel buffer in
case of error.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The copy_mount_options() function takes a user pointer argument but no
size and it tries to read up to a PAGE_SIZE. However, copy_from_user()
is not guaranteed to return all the accessible bytes if, for example,
the access crosses a page boundary and gets a fault on the second page.
To work around this, the current copy_mount_options() implementation
performs two copy_from_user() passes, first to the end of the current
page and the second to what's left in the subsequent page.

On arm64 with MTE enabled, access to a user page may trigger a fault
after part of the buffer in a page has been copied (when the user
pointer tag, bits 56-59, no longer matches the allocation tag stored in
memory). Allow copy_mount_options() to handle such intra-page faults by
resorting to byte at a time copy in case of copy_from_user() failure.

Note that copy_from_user() handles the zeroing of the kernel buffer in
case of error.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.</title>
<updated>2020-08-27T20:06:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Mattias Nissler</name>
<email>mnissler@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-27T17:09:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b39df2523fc6e'/>
<id>dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b39df2523fc6e</id>
<content type='text'>
For mounts that have the new "nosymfollow" option, don't follow symlinks
when resolving paths. The new option is similar in spirit to the
existing "nodev", "noexec", and "nosuid" options, as well as to the
LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS resolve flag in the openat2(2) syscall. Various BSD
variants have been supporting the "nosymfollow" mount option for a long
time with equivalent implementations.

Note that symlinks may still be created on file systems mounted with
the "nosymfollow" option present. readlink() remains functional, so
user space code that is aware of symlinks can still choose to follow
them explicitly.

Setting the "nosymfollow" mount option helps prevent privileged
writers from modifying files unintentionally in case there is an
unexpected link along the accessed path. The "nosymfollow" option is
thus useful as a defensive measure for systems that need to deal with
untrusted file systems in privileged contexts.

More information on the history and motivation for this patch can be
found here:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/hardening-against-malicious-stateful-data#TOC-Restricting-symlink-traversal

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler &lt;mnissler@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
For mounts that have the new "nosymfollow" option, don't follow symlinks
when resolving paths. The new option is similar in spirit to the
existing "nodev", "noexec", and "nosuid" options, as well as to the
LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS resolve flag in the openat2(2) syscall. Various BSD
variants have been supporting the "nosymfollow" mount option for a long
time with equivalent implementations.

Note that symlinks may still be created on file systems mounted with
the "nosymfollow" option present. readlink() remains functional, so
user space code that is aware of symlinks can still choose to follow
them explicitly.

Setting the "nosymfollow" mount option helps prevent privileged
writers from modifying files unintentionally in case there is an
unexpected link along the accessed path. The "nosymfollow" option is
thus useful as a defensive measure for systems that need to deal with
untrusted file systems in privileged contexts.

More information on the history and motivation for this patch can be
found here:

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/hardening-against-malicious-stateful-data#TOC-Restricting-symlink-traversal

Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler &lt;mnissler@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler &lt;zwisler@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai &lt;cyphar@cyphar.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
</feed>
