linux-kernel - [PATCH v4] fs: namespacec bound mount propagation fix

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Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:05:58 +0400
From:	Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@...ia.com>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, vda.linux@...glemail.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@...ia.com>
Subject: [PATCH v4] fs: namespacec bound mount propagation fix

This issue was discovered by users of busybox.  And the bug is actual for 
busybox users, I don't know how it affects others. Apparently, mount is
called with and without MS_SILENT, and this affects mount() behaviour.
But MS_SILENT is only supposed to affect kernel logging verbosity.

There is the script to reproduce the issue in busybox environment:
mkdir -p mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2
touch mount.dir/a mount.dir/b
mount -vv --bind mount.shared1 mount.shared1
mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared1
mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared2
mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared2
mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared1
mount -vv --bind mount.dir     mount.shared2
ls -R mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 

actual resul after the fourth command is error:
mount: mount.shared1: Invalid argument

but expected result is:
mount.dir:
a  b
mount.shared1:
a  b
mount.shared2:
a  b

The analysis shows that MS_SILENT flag which is ON by default in any busybox->
mount operations cames to flags_to_propagation_type function and causes the
error return while is_power_of_2 checking because the function expects only one 
bit set. This doesn't allow to do busybox->mount with 
any --make-[r]shared, --make-[r]private etc options.

Signed-off-by: Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@...ia.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 7dba2ed..e7c479e 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1711,7 +1711,7 @@ static int graft_tree(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct path *path)
 
 static int flags_to_propagation_type(int flags)
 {
-	int type = flags & ~MS_REC;
+	int type = flags & ~(MS_REC | MS_SILENT);
 
 	/* Fail if any non-propagation flags are set */
 	if (type & ~(MS_SHARED | MS_PRIVATE | MS_SLAVE | MS_UNBINDABLE))
-- 
1.7.0.4

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