linux-kernel - [PATCH] VFS: lookup path of "-o remount" the same way as "umount"

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Message-ID: <87shh0q6ib.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name>
Date:   Thu, 10 Aug 2017 16:30:36 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
cc:     Linux NFS Mailing List <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] VFS: lookup path of "-o remount" the same way as "umount"

"mount -o remount" does not need to validate the target directory
for the same reasons that "umount" doesn't.  It just needs to
find the mountpoint and verify it is a mountpount.

So change do_mount() to use user_path_mountpoint_at() in the
MS_REMOUNT case.

This means that mount(.., MS_REMOUNT|MS_RO, ..) on a network
attached filesystem will only access the network if there
is data to be written out.  This reduces the chance of a hang
when the network is down.

Systemd-shutdown currently calls
   mount(NULL, path, NULL, MS_REMOUNT|MS_RDONLY, ...);
   umount2(path, 0);

which is not unreasonable for local filesystems which may still
be in use, but causes a hang for NFS filesystems which have not
been unmounted.

Note that this change does not affect
   /usr/bin/mount -o remount,ro ...
as that currently calls "lstat()" on the mount point.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index f8893dc6a989..31ded3a1cdff 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2718,7 +2718,10 @@ long do_mount(const char *dev_name, const char __user *dir_name,
 		((char *)data_page)[PAGE_SIZE - 1] = 0;

 	/* ... and get the mountpoint */
-	retval = user_path(dir_name, &path);
+	if (flags & MS_REMOUNT)
+		retval = user_path_mountpoint_at(AT_FDCWD, dir_name, 0, &path);
+	else
+		retval = user_path(dir_name, &path);
 	if (retval)
 		return retval;

-- 
2.12.2

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