linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 31/34] vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock for reconfiguration [ver #12]

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Date:   Sat, 13 Oct 2018 16:04:09 -0700
From:   Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To:     alan.christopher.jenkins@...il.com
Cc:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Linux API <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/34] vfs: syscall: Add fspick() to select a superblock
 for reconfiguration [ver #12]

On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 2:45 AM Alan Jenkins
<alan.christopher.jenkins@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 13/10/2018 07:11, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 03:49:50PM +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
> >>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fspick, int, dfd, const char __user *, path, unsigned int, flags)
> >>> +{
> >>> +   struct fs_context *fc;
> >>> +   struct path target;
> >>> +   unsigned int lookup_flags;
> >>> +   int ret;
> >>> +
> >>> +   if (!ns_capable(current->nsproxy->mnt_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> >>> +           return -EPERM;
> >>
> >> This seems to accept basically any mount.  Specifically: are you sure it's
> >> OK to return a handle to a SB_NO_USER superblock?
> > Umm...  As long as we don't try to do pathname resolution from its ->s_root,
> > shouldn't be a problem and I don't see anything that would do that.  I might've
> > missed something, but...
>
> Sorry, I guess SB_NOUSER was the wrong word.  I was trying find if
> anything stopped things like
>
> int memfd = memfd_create("foo", 0);
> int fsfd = fspick(memfd, "", FSPICK_EMPTY_PATH);
>
> fsconfig(fsfd, FSCONFIG_SET_FLAG, "ro", NULL, 0);
> fsconfig(fsfd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "size", "100M", 0);
> fsconfig(fsfd, FSCONFIG_CMD_RECONFIGURE, NULL, NULL, 0);
>
> So far I'm getting -EBUSY if I try to apply the "ro", -EINVAL if I try
> to apply the "size=100M".  But if I don't apply either, then
> FSCONFIG_CMD_RECONFIGURE succeeds.
>
> It seems worrying that it might let me set options on shm_mnt. Or at
> least letting me get as far as the -EBUSY check for the "ro" superblock
> flag.
>
> I'm not sure why I'm getting the -EINVAL setting the "size" option.  But
> it would be much more reassuring if I was getting -EPERM :-).
>

I would argue that the filesystem associated with a memfd, and even
the fact that there *is* a filesystem, is none of user code's
business.  So that fspick() call should return -EINVAL or similar.