linux-kernel - 2.6.31 - sequence of chroot calls makes filesystem unmountable

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:46:49 +0100
From:	"Richard W.M. Jones" <rjones@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 2.6.31 - sequence of chroot calls makes filesystem unmountable

I discovered an odd bug in 2.6.31 (from Fedora Rawhide which is mostly
tracking git).  A sequence of chroot() and open() syscalls executed as
root can make a filesystem unmountable.

Test program below, along with a wrapper script.

The filesystem stays unmountable even after the program & script exit.
'lsof' and 'fuser' don't show anything holding the filesystem open.

Some sample output is here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507066#c10

Rich.

Save as /tmp/test.c
Compile: gcc -Wall -o /tmp/test /tmp/test.c
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#define _XOPEN_SOURCE
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

int
main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
  int fd, r;

  if (chdir ("/") == -1) {
    perror ("chdir");
    exit (1);
  }

  if (chroot ("/tmp/mnt") == -1) {
    perror ("chroot#1");
    exit (1);
  }
  fd = open ("/hello", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_NOCTTY, 0666);
  if (fd == -1) {
    perror ("open");
    exit (1);
  }
  if (chroot (".") == -1) {
    perror ("chroot#2");
    exit (1);
  }
  if (close (fd) == -1) {
    perror ("close");
    exit (1);
  }

  r = system ("umount /tmp/mnt");
  if (r == -1 || WEXITSTATUS(r) != 0) {
    fprintf (stderr, "umount failed\n");
    exit (1);
  }

  exit (0);
}
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Wrapper script (/tmp/test.sh)
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#!/bin/sh -

set -e

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/fs bs=1024k count=10
/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -F /tmp/fs

rm -rf /tmp/mnt
mkdir /tmp/mnt

mount -o loop /tmp/fs /tmp/mnt

/tmp/test

echo Finished test successfully.
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