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<title>LOOKUP_MOUNTPOINT: fold path_mountpointat() into path_lookupat()</title>
<updated>2020-03-14T01:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
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<published>2020-01-12T03:52:26+00:00</published>
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New LOOKUP flag, telling path_lookupat() to act as path_mountpointat().
IOW, traverse mounts at the final point and skip revalidation of the
location where it ends up.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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New LOOKUP flag, telling path_lookupat() to act as path_mountpointat().
IOW, traverse mounts at the final point and skip revalidation of the
location where it ends up.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>follow_automount(): get rid of dead^Wstillborn code</title>
<updated>2020-02-27T19:43:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-11T16:27:46+00:00</published>
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1) no instances of -&gt;d_automount() have ever made use of the "return
ERR_PTR(-EISDIR) if you don't feel like mounting anything" - that's
a rudiment of plans that got superseded before the thing went into
the tree.  Despite the comment in follow_automount(), autofs has
never done that.

2) if there's no -&gt;d_automount() in dentry_operations, filesystems
should not set DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT in the first place.  None have
ever done so...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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1) no instances of -&gt;d_automount() have ever made use of the "return
ERR_PTR(-EISDIR) if you don't feel like mounting anything" - that's
a rudiment of plans that got superseded before the thing went into
the tree.  Despite the comment in follow_automount(), autofs has
never done that.

2) if there's no -&gt;d_automount() in dentry_operations, filesystems
should not set DCACHE_NEED_AUTOMOUNT in the first place.  None have
ever done so...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fix automount/automount race properly</title>
<updated>2020-02-27T19:40:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-11T15:44:29+00:00</published>
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Protection against automount/automount races (two threads hitting the same
referral point at the same time) is based upon do_add_mount() prevention of
identical overmounts - trying to overmount the root of mounted tree with
the same tree fails with -EBUSY.  It's unreliable (the other thread might've
mounted something on top of the automount it has triggered) *and* causes
no end of headache for follow_automount() and its caller, since
finish_automount() behaves like do_new_mount() - if the mountpoint to be is
overmounted, it mounts on top what's overmounting it.  It's not only wrong
(we want to go into what's overmounting the automount point and quietly
discard what we planned to mount there), it introduces the possibility of
original parent mount getting dropped.  That's what 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix
vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount) deals with, but it can't do
anything about the reliability of conflict detection - if something had
been overmounted the other thread's automount (e.g. that other thread
having stepped into automount in mount(2)), we don't get that -EBUSY and
the result is
	 referral point under automounted NFS under explicit overmount
under another copy of automounted NFS

What we need is finish_automount() *NOT* digging into overmounts - if it
finds one, it should just quietly discard the thing it was asked to mount.
And don't bother with actually crossing into the results of finish_automount() -
the same loop that calls follow_automount() will do that just fine on the
next iteration.

IOW, instead of calling lock_mount() have finish_automount() do it manually,
_without_ the "move into overmount and retry" part.  And leave crossing into
the results to the caller of follow_automount(), which simplifies it a lot.

Moral: if you end up with a lot of glue working around the calling conventions
of something, perhaps these calling conventions are simply wrong...

Fixes: 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Protection against automount/automount races (two threads hitting the same
referral point at the same time) is based upon do_add_mount() prevention of
identical overmounts - trying to overmount the root of mounted tree with
the same tree fails with -EBUSY.  It's unreliable (the other thread might've
mounted something on top of the automount it has triggered) *and* causes
no end of headache for follow_automount() and its caller, since
finish_automount() behaves like do_new_mount() - if the mountpoint to be is
overmounted, it mounts on top what's overmounting it.  It's not only wrong
(we want to go into what's overmounting the automount point and quietly
discard what we planned to mount there), it introduces the possibility of
original parent mount getting dropped.  That's what 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix
vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount) deals with, but it can't do
anything about the reliability of conflict detection - if something had
been overmounted the other thread's automount (e.g. that other thread
having stepped into automount in mount(2)), we don't get that -EBUSY and
the result is
	 referral point under automounted NFS under explicit overmount
under another copy of automounted NFS

What we need is finish_automount() *NOT* digging into overmounts - if it
finds one, it should just quietly discard the thing it was asked to mount.
And don't bother with actually crossing into the results of finish_automount() -
the same loop that calls follow_automount() will do that just fine on the
next iteration.

IOW, instead of calling lock_mount() have finish_automount() do it manually,
_without_ the "move into overmount and retry" part.  And leave crossing into
the results to the caller of follow_automount(), which simplifies it a lot.

Moral: if you end up with a lot of glue working around the calling conventions
of something, perhaps these calling conventions are simply wrong...

Fixes: 8aef18845266 (VFS: Fix vfsmount overput on simultaneous automount)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<title>do_add_mount(): lift lock_mount/unlock_mount into callers</title>
<updated>2020-02-10T16:59:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-11T15:14:09+00:00</published>
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preparation to finish_automount() fix (next commit)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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preparation to finish_automount() fix (next commit)

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>saner copy_mount_options()</title>
<updated>2020-02-04T02:23:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-21T00:49:57+00:00</published>
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don't bother with the byte-by-byte loops, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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don't bother with the byte-by-byte loops, etc.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/namespace.c: make to_mnt_ns() static</title>
<updated>2020-01-04T21:55:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-01-04T20:59:55+00:00</published>
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Make to_mnt_ns() static to address the following 'sparse' warning:

    fs/namespace.c:1731:22: warning: symbol 'to_mnt_ns' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191209234830.156260-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Make to_mnt_ns() static to address the following 'sparse' warning:

    fs/namespace.c:1731:22: warning: symbol 'to_mnt_ns' was not declared. Should it be static?

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191209234830.156260-1-ebiggers@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()</title>
<updated>2019-12-12T13:50:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dominik Brodowski</name>
<email>linux@dominikbrodowski.net</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-23T20:41:09+00:00</published>
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In prepare_namespace(), do_mount() can be used instead of ksys_mount()
as the first and third argument are const strings in the kernel, the
second and fourth argument are passed through anyway, and the fifth
argument is NULL.

In do_mount_root(), ksys_mount() is called with the first and third
argument being already kernelspace strings, which do not need to be
copied over from userspace to kernelspace (again). The second and
fourth arguments are passed through to do_mount() anyway. The fifth
argument, while already residing in kernelspace, needs to be put into
a page of its own. Then, do_mount() can be used instead of
ksys_mount().

Once this is done, there are no in-kernel users to ksys_mount() left,
which can therefore be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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In prepare_namespace(), do_mount() can be used instead of ksys_mount()
as the first and third argument are const strings in the kernel, the
second and fourth argument are passed through anyway, and the fifth
argument is NULL.

In do_mount_root(), ksys_mount() is called with the first and third
argument being already kernelspace strings, which do not need to be
copied over from userspace to kernelspace (again). The second and
fourth arguments are passed through to do_mount() anyway. The fifth
argument, while already residing in kernelspace, needs to be put into
a page of its own. Then, do_mount() can be used instead of
ksys_mount().

Once this is done, there are no in-kernel users to ksys_mount() left,
which can therefore be removed.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2019-12-08T19:08:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-08T19:08:28+00:00</published>
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Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "No common topic, just three cleanups".

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  make __d_alloc() static
  fs/namespace: add __user to open_tree and move_mount syscalls
  fs/fnctl: fix missing __user in fcntl_rw_hint()
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Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro:
 "No common topic, just three cleanups".

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  make __d_alloc() static
  fs/namespace: add __user to open_tree and move_mount syscalls
  fs/fnctl: fix missing __user in fcntl_rw_hint()
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<title>fs/namespace: add __user to open_tree and move_mount syscalls</title>
<updated>2019-10-21T16:50:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ben Dooks</name>
<email>ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-15T10:35:02+00:00</published>
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Thw open_tree and move_mount syscalls take names from the
user, so add the __user to these to ensure the following
warnings from sparse are fixed:

fs/namespace.c:2392:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:2392:35:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:2392:35:    got char const *filename
fs/namespace.c:3541:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:3541:38:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:3541:38:    got char const *from_pathname
fs/namespace.c:3550:36: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:3550:36:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:3550:36:    got char const *to_pathname

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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Thw open_tree and move_mount syscalls take names from the
user, so add the __user to these to ensure the following
warnings from sparse are fixed:

fs/namespace.c:2392:35: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:2392:35:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:2392:35:    got char const *filename
fs/namespace.c:3541:38: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:3541:38:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:3541:38:    got char const *from_pathname
fs/namespace.c:3550:36: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different address spaces)
fs/namespace.c:3550:36:    expected char const [noderef] &lt;asn:1&gt; *name
fs/namespace.c:3550:36:    got char const *to_pathname

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks &lt;ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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<entry>
<title>fs/namespace.c: fix use-after-free of mount in mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry()</title>
<updated>2019-10-17T03:15:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Biggers</name>
<email>ebiggers@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-10-17T02:48:14+00:00</published>
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After do_add_mount() returns success, the caller doesn't hold a
reference to the 'struct mount' anymore.  So it's invalid to access it
in mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry().

Fix it by calling mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry() before do_add_mount()
rather than after, and adjusting the warning message accordingly.

Reported-by: syzbot+da4f525235510683d855@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f8b92ba67c5d ("mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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After do_add_mount() returns success, the caller doesn't hold a
reference to the 'struct mount' anymore.  So it's invalid to access it
in mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry().

Fix it by calling mnt_warn_timestamp_expiry() before do_add_mount()
rather than after, and adjusting the warning message accordingly.

Reported-by: syzbot+da4f525235510683d855@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Fixes: f8b92ba67c5d ("mount: Add mount warning for impending timestamp expiry")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers &lt;ebiggers@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
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