Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] add statmount(2) syscall

From: Paul Moore
Date: Wed Oct 04 2023 - 15:26:41 EST


On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:03 AM Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add a way to query attributes of a single mount instead of having to parse
> the complete /proc/$PID/mountinfo, which might be huge.
>
> Lookup the mount the new 64bit mount ID. If a mount needs to be queried
> based on path, then statx(2) can be used to first query the mount ID
> belonging to the path.
>
> Design is based on a suggestion by Linus:
>
> "So I'd suggest something that is very much like "statfsat()", which gets
> a buffer and a length, and returns an extended "struct statfs" *AND*
> just a string description at the end."
>
> The interface closely mimics that of statx.
>
> Handle ASCII attributes by appending after the end of the structure (as per
> above suggestion). Pointers to strings are stored in u64 members to make
> the structure the same regardless of pointer size. Strings are nul
> terminated.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh5YifP7hzKSbwJj94+DZ2czjrZsczy6GBimiogZws=rg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 1 +
> arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 +
> fs/namespace.c | 283 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> fs/statfs.c | 1 +
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 5 +
> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 5 +-
> include/uapi/linux/mount.h | 56 +++++
> 7 files changed, 351 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

...

> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> index c3a41200fe70..3326ba2b2810 100644
> --- a/fs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/namespace.c

...

> +static int do_statmount(struct stmt_state *s)
> +{
> + struct statmnt *sm = &s->sm;
> + struct mount *m = real_mount(s->mnt);
> + size_t copysize = min_t(size_t, s->bufsize, sizeof(*sm));
> + int err;
> +
> + err = security_sb_statfs(s->mnt->mnt_root);
> + if (err)
> + return err;

Thank you for adding the security_sb_statfs() call to this operation,
however I believe we want to place it *after* the capability check to
be consistent with other LSM calls.

> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
> + !is_path_reachable(m, m->mnt.mnt_root, &s->root))
> + return -EPERM;
> +
> + stmt_numeric(s, STMT_SB_BASIC, stmt_sb_basic);
> + stmt_numeric(s, STMT_MNT_BASIC, stmt_mnt_basic);
> + stmt_numeric(s, STMT_PROPAGATE_FROM, stmt_propagate_from);
> + stmt_string(s, STMT_FS_TYPE, stmt_fs_type, &sm->fs_type);
> + stmt_string(s, STMT_MNT_ROOT, stmt_mnt_root, &sm->mnt_root);
> + stmt_string(s, STMT_MNT_POINT, stmt_mnt_point, &sm->mnt_point);
> +
> + if (s->err)
> + return s->err;
> +
> + /* Return the number of bytes copied to the buffer */
> + sm->size = copysize + s->pos;
> +
> + if (copy_to_user(s->buf, sm, copysize))
> + return -EFAULT;
> +
> + return 0;
> +}

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