From: Miklos Szeredi This patchset adds support for keeping mount ownership information in the kernel, and allow unprivileged mount(2) and umount(2) in certain cases. The mount owner has the following privileges: - unmount the owned mount - create a submount under the owned mount The sysadmin can set the owner explicitly on mount and remount. When an unprivileged user creates a mount, then the owner is automatically set to the user. The following use cases are envisioned: 1) Private namespace, with selected mounts owned by user. E.g. /home/$USER is a good candidate for allowing unpriv mounts and unmounts within. 2) Private namespace, with all mounts owned by user and having the "nosuid" flag. User can mount and umount anywhere within the namespace, but suid programs will not work. 3) Global namespace, with a designated directory, which is a mount owned by the user. E.g. /mnt/users/$USER is set up so that it is bind mounted onto itself, and set to be owned by $USER. The user can add/remove mounts only under this directory. The following extra security measures are taken for unprivileged mounts: - usermounts are limited by a sysctl tunable - force "nosuid,nodev" mount options on the created mount For testing unprivileged mounts (and for other purposes) simple mount/umount utilities are available from: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mszeredi/mmount/ I'll also submit a patch to util-linux, to add the same functionality to mount(8) and umount(8). This patch: A new mount flag, MS_SETUSER is used to make a mount owned by a user. If this flag is specified, then the owner will be set to the current fsuid and the mount will be marked with the MNT_USER flag. On remount don't preserve previous owner, and treat MS_SETUSER as for a new mount. The MS_SETUSER flag is ignored on mount move. The MNT_USER flag is not copied on any kind of mount cloning: namespace creation, binding or propagation. For bind mounts the cloned mount(s) are set to MNT_USER depending on the MS_SETUSER mount flag. In all the other cases MNT_USER is always cleared. For MNT_USER mounts a "user=UID" option is added to /proc/PID/mounts. This is compatible with how mount ownership is stored in /etc/mtab. The rationale for using MS_SETUSER and MNT_USER, to distinguish "user" mounts from "non-user" or "legacy" mounts are follows: a) Mount(2) and umount(2) on legacy mounts always need CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. As opposed to user mounts, which will only require, that the mount owner matches the current fsuid. So a process with fsuid=0 should not be able to mount/umount legacy mounts without the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability. b) Legacy userspace programs may set fsuid to nonzero before calling mount(2). In such an unlikely case, this patchset would cause an unintended side effect of making the mount owned by the fsuid. c) For legacy mounts, no "user=UID" option should be shown in /proc/mounts for backwards compatibility. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Index: linux/fs/namespace.c =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/namespace.c 2007-04-26 13:08:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/namespace.c 2007-04-26 13:10:48.000000000 +0200 @@ -227,6 +227,13 @@ static struct vfsmount *skip_mnt_tree(st return p; } +static void set_mnt_user(struct vfsmount *mnt) +{ + BUG_ON(mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_USER); + mnt->mnt_uid = current->fsuid; + mnt->mnt_flags |= MNT_USER; +} + static struct vfsmount *clone_mnt(struct vfsmount *old, struct dentry *root, int flag) { @@ -241,6 +248,11 @@ static struct vfsmount *clone_mnt(struct mnt->mnt_mountpoint = mnt->mnt_root; mnt->mnt_parent = mnt; + /* don't copy the MNT_USER flag */ + mnt->mnt_flags &= ~MNT_USER; + if (flag & CL_SETUSER) + set_mnt_user(mnt); + if (flag & CL_SLAVE) { list_add(&mnt->mnt_slave, &old->mnt_slave_list); mnt->mnt_master = old; @@ -403,6 +415,8 @@ static int show_vfsmnt(struct seq_file * if (mnt->mnt_flags & fs_infop->flag) seq_puts(m, fs_infop->str); } + if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_USER) + seq_printf(m, ",user=%i", mnt->mnt_uid); if (mnt->mnt_sb->s_op->show_options) err = mnt->mnt_sb->s_op->show_options(m, mnt); seq_puts(m, " 0 0\n"); @@ -923,8 +937,9 @@ static int do_change_type(struct nameida /* * do loopback mount. */ -static int do_loopback(struct nameidata *nd, char *old_name, int recurse) +static int do_loopback(struct nameidata *nd, char *old_name, int flags) { + int clone_flags; struct nameidata old_nd; struct vfsmount *mnt = NULL; int err = mount_is_safe(nd); @@ -944,11 +959,12 @@ static int do_loopback(struct nameidata if (!check_mnt(nd->mnt) || !check_mnt(old_nd.mnt)) goto out; + clone_flags = (flags & MS_SETUSER) ? CL_SETUSER : 0; err = -ENOMEM; - if (recurse) - mnt = copy_tree(old_nd.mnt, old_nd.dentry, 0); + if (flags & MS_REC) + mnt = copy_tree(old_nd.mnt, old_nd.dentry, clone_flags); else - mnt = clone_mnt(old_nd.mnt, old_nd.dentry, 0); + mnt = clone_mnt(old_nd.mnt, old_nd.dentry, clone_flags); if (!mnt) goto out; @@ -990,8 +1006,11 @@ static int do_remount(struct nameidata * down_write(&sb->s_umount); err = do_remount_sb(sb, flags, data, 0); - if (!err) + if (!err) { nd->mnt->mnt_flags = mnt_flags; + if (flags & MS_SETUSER) + set_mnt_user(nd->mnt); + } up_write(&sb->s_umount); if (!err) security_sb_post_remount(nd->mnt, flags, data); @@ -1096,10 +1115,13 @@ static int do_new_mount(struct nameidata if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) return -EPERM; - mnt = do_kern_mount(type, flags, name, data); + mnt = do_kern_mount(type, flags & ~MS_SETUSER, name, data); if (IS_ERR(mnt)) return PTR_ERR(mnt); + if (flags & MS_SETUSER) + set_mnt_user(mnt); + return do_add_mount(mnt, nd, mnt_flags, NULL); } @@ -1130,7 +1152,8 @@ int do_add_mount(struct vfsmount *newmnt if (S_ISLNK(newmnt->mnt_root->d_inode->i_mode)) goto unlock; - newmnt->mnt_flags = mnt_flags; + /* MNT_USER was set earlier */ + newmnt->mnt_flags |= mnt_flags; if ((err = graft_tree(newmnt, nd))) goto unlock; @@ -1450,7 +1473,7 @@ long do_mount(char *dev_name, char *dir_ retval = do_remount(&nd, flags & ~MS_REMOUNT, mnt_flags, data_page); else if (flags & MS_BIND) - retval = do_loopback(&nd, dev_name, flags & MS_REC); + retval = do_loopback(&nd, dev_name, flags); else if (flags & (MS_SHARED | MS_PRIVATE | MS_SLAVE | MS_UNBINDABLE)) retval = do_change_type(&nd, flags); else if (flags & MS_MOVE) Index: linux/fs/pnode.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/fs/pnode.h 2007-04-26 13:08:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/fs/pnode.h 2007-04-26 13:08:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ #define CL_COPY_ALL 0x04 #define CL_MAKE_SHARED 0x08 #define CL_PROPAGATION 0x10 +#define CL_SETUSER 0x20 static inline void set_mnt_shared(struct vfsmount *mnt) { Index: linux/include/linux/fs.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/fs.h 2007-04-26 13:08:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/linux/fs.h 2007-04-26 13:08:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ extern int dir_notify_enable; #define MS_SLAVE (1<<19) /* change to slave */ #define MS_SHARED (1<<20) /* change to shared */ #define MS_RELATIME (1<<21) /* Update atime relative to mtime/ctime. */ +#define MS_SETUSER (1<<22) /* set mnt_uid to current user */ #define MS_ACTIVE (1<<30) #define MS_NOUSER (1<<31) Index: linux/include/linux/mount.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/linux/mount.h 2007-04-26 13:08:35.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/include/linux/mount.h 2007-04-26 13:08:36.000000000 +0200 @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct mnt_namespace; #define MNT_RELATIME 0x20 #define MNT_SHRINKABLE 0x100 +#define MNT_USER 0x200 #define MNT_SHARED 0x1000 /* if the vfsmount is a shared mount */ #define MNT_UNBINDABLE 0x2000 /* if the vfsmount is a unbindable mount */ @@ -61,6 +62,8 @@ struct vfsmount { atomic_t mnt_count; int mnt_expiry_mark; /* true if marked for expiry */ int mnt_pinned; + + uid_t mnt_uid; /* owner of the mount */ }; static inline struct vfsmount *mntget(struct vfsmount *mnt) -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/