linux-kernel - Re: Invalid /proc/<pid>/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks with TIOCGPTPEER

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Date:   Thu, 8 Mar 2018 09:19:04 +0100
From:   Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@...onical.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: Invalid /proc/<pid>/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks with TIOCGPTPEER

On Wed, Mar 07, 2018 at 11:44:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Christian Brauner
> <christian.brauner@...onical.com> wrote:
> >
> > unshare --mount
> > mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
> > chmod 666 /dev/ptmx
> 
> Oh. Why are you using a bind mount in the first place?

Containers employing user namespaces can't mknod() and because of the
way some LSMs check access permissions (path-based AppArmor being one
example) a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx won't work either so a bind-mount
seems like the most reliable solution.

> 
> Anyway, I guess we just have to add another special case for this.
> 
> Which doesn't look horrible. Right now path_pts() just does
> 
>         ret = path_parent_directory(path);
> 
> and that simply doesn't work for a bind mount file.
> 
> I think we could just change path_parent_directory() to go through
> file bind mounts. The other user is follow_dotdot(), but that always
> takes a directory, so it wouldn't be affected.
> 
> But it's probably safer to just teach path_pts to just walk up the
> bind mount first, and then do the existing path_parent_directory.
> 
> Anybody want to just try that thing?

Sure. I can try and take a look.

Christian