Re: [PATCH v4 5/6] add listmount(2) syscall

From: Paul Moore
Date: Tue Nov 07 2023 - 21:58:29 EST


On Oct 25, 2023 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Add way to query the children of a particular mount. This is a more
> flexible way to iterate the mount tree than having to parse the complete
> /proc/self/mountinfo.
>
> Allow listing either
>
> - immediate child mounts only, or
>
> - recursively all descendant mounts (depth first).
>
> Lookup the mount by 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.
>
> Return an array of new (64bit) mount ID's. Without privileges only mounts
> are listed which are reachable from the task's root.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/namespace.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 ++
> include/uapi/linux/mount.h | 9 ++++
> 3 files changed, 105 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> index a980c250a3a6..0afe2344bba6 100644
> --- a/fs/namespace.c
> +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> @@ -4958,6 +4958,99 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(statmount, const struct __mount_arg __user *, req,
> return ret;
> }
>
> +static struct mount *listmnt_first(struct mount *root)
> +{
> + return list_first_entry_or_null(&root->mnt_mounts, struct mount, mnt_child);
> +}
> +
> +static struct mount *listmnt_next(struct mount *curr, struct mount *root, bool recurse)
> +{
> + if (recurse)
> + return next_mnt(curr, root);
> + if (!list_is_head(curr->mnt_child.next, &root->mnt_mounts))
> + return list_next_entry(curr, mnt_child);
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +
> +static long do_listmount(struct vfsmount *mnt, u64 __user *buf, size_t bufsize,
> + const struct path *root, unsigned int flags)
> +{
> + struct mount *r, *m = real_mount(mnt);
> + struct path rootmnt = {
> + .mnt = root->mnt,
> + .dentry = root->mnt->mnt_root
> + };
> + long ctr = 0;
> + bool reachable_only = true;
> + bool recurse = flags & LISTMOUNT_RECURSIVE;
> + int err;
> +
> + err = security_sb_statfs(mnt->mnt_root);
> + if (err)
> + return err;
> +
> + if (flags & LISTMOUNT_UNREACHABLE) {
> + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + return -EPERM;
> + reachable_only = false;
> + }

Similar to my comment in patch 4/6, please move the LSM call after the
capability check.

> + if (reachable_only && !is_path_reachable(m, mnt->mnt_root, &rootmnt))
> + return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? 0 : -EPERM;
> +
> + for (r = listmnt_first(m); r; r = listmnt_next(r, m, recurse)) {
> + if (reachable_only &&
> + !is_path_reachable(r, r->mnt.mnt_root, root))
> + continue;
> +
> + if (ctr >= bufsize)
> + return -EOVERFLOW;
> + if (put_user(r->mnt_id_unique, buf + ctr))
> + return -EFAULT;
> + ctr++;
> + if (ctr < 0)
> + return -ERANGE;
> + }
> + return ctr;
> +}

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