Re: unprivileged mounts vs. rmdir (was: VFS, NFS security bug? ...)

[Pavel Machek]

On Mon 2009-03-23 14:21:30, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> [CCs trimmed]
> 
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Serge E. Hallyn wrote:
> > Quoting J. Bruce Fields (bfields@xxxxxxxxxxxx):
> > > special privilege, so don't consult filesystem permissions (do I have
> > > that right?  What happened to the attempt to allow ordinary users to
> > > mount?).
> > 
> > Well, they keep getting stalled because we don't have a good answer for
> > what to do about the fact that an unprivileged user can make trees
> > undeletable by pinning them with mounts.  (Miklos and Eric cc'd in case
> > I didn't explain that well enough).
> 
> That's correct.
> 
> The best answer I can come up with is to allow rmdir/unlink to
> automatically umount trees from their respective dentries.  Obviously
> this can't be done for regular (privileged) mounts, which must keep
> returning EBUSY in such situations.
> 
> But for unprivileged mounts I can't see any fundamental issue with
> such an approach.
> 
> Does anyone see a problem with this?  Is there a better solution?

Well... traditionally if you have an open file or cwd inside mounted
tree... that blocks unmount, right?

What will you do with processes that have open (deleted) files inside
the mount? What about cwd?
								Pavel
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