linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: Escape more characters in /proc/mounts output

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Date:   Tue, 15 Dec 2020 09:54:54 +0530
From:   Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@...plt.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] proc: Escape more characters in /proc/mounts output

When a filesystem is mounted with a blank name like so:

 # mount '' bad -t tmpfs

its name entry in /proc/mounts is blank causing the line to start
with a space.

 /mnt/bad tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,inode64 0 0

Further, the name could start with a hash, causing the entry to look
like this (leading space added so that git does not strip it out):

 # /mnt/bad tmpfs rw,seclabel,relatime,inode64 0 0

This breaks getmntent and any code that aims to parse fstab as well as
/proc/mounts with the same logic since they need to strip leading
spaces or skip over comments, due to which they report incorrect
output or skip over the line respectively.

This fix resolves both issues by (1) treating blank names the same way
as not having a name and (2) by escaping the hash character into its
octal encoding, which getmntent can then decode and print correctly.
As far as file parsing is concerned, these are the only additional
cases to cater for since they cover all characters that have a special
meaning in that context.

Signed-off-by: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@...plt.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@...hat.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c      | 8 +++++++-
 fs/proc_namespace.c | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index cebaa3e81794..68bd5a814a2a 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -3110,7 +3110,13 @@ static void *copy_mount_options(const void __user * data)

 static char *copy_mount_string(const void __user *data)
 {
-	return data ? strndup_user(data, PATH_MAX) : NULL;
+	char byte;
+	if (data == NULL)
+	  return NULL;
+
+	get_user(byte, (const char __user *)data);
+
+	return byte ? strndup_user(data, PATH_MAX) : NULL;
 }

 /*
diff --git a/fs/proc_namespace.c b/fs/proc_namespace.c
index e59d4bb3a89e..090b53120b7a 100644
--- a/fs/proc_namespace.c
+++ b/fs/proc_namespace.c
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ static void show_mnt_opts(struct seq_file *m, struct vfsmount *mnt)

 static inline void mangle(struct seq_file *m, const char *s)
 {
-	seq_escape(m, s, " \t\n\\");
+	seq_escape(m, s, " \t\n\\#");
 }

 static void show_type(struct seq_file *m, struct super_block *sb)
-- 
2.29.2