linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vfs: move_mount: reject moving kernel internal mounts

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Mon, 1 Jul 2019 19:22:39 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vfs: move_mount: reject moving kernel internal mounts

On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:45:37AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2019 at 01:27:44PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> > 
> > Reproducer:
> > 
> >     #include <unistd.h>
> > 
> >     #define __NR_move_mount         429
> >     #define MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH 0x00000004
> > 
> >     int main()
> >     {
> >     	  int fds[2];
> > 
> >     	  pipe(fds);
> >         syscall(__NR_move_mount, fds[0], "", -1, "/", MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH);
> >     }
> 
> David, I'd like to add this as a regression test somewhere.
> 
> Can you point me to the tests for the new mount syscalls?
> 
> I checked LTP, kselftests, and xfstests, but nothing to be found.

FWIW, it's not just move_mount(2) - I'd expect

	int fds[2];
	char s[80];

	pipe(fds);
	sprintf(s, "/dev/fd/%d", fds[0]);
	mount(s, "/dev/null", NULL, MS_MOVE, 0);

to step into exactly the same thing.  mount(2) does follow symlinks -
always had...