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

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On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 at 21:38, Paul Moore <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 9:04 AM 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.
> >
> > 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>
> > ---
> >  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl |  1 +
> >  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl |  1 +
> >  fs/namespace.c                         | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/syscalls.h               |  3 ++
> >  include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h      |  5 +-
> >  include/uapi/linux/mount.h             |  3 ++
> >  6 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> ...
>
> > diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
> > index 3326ba2b2810..050e2d2af110 100644
> > --- a/fs/namespace.c
> > +++ b/fs/namespace.c
> > @@ -4970,6 +4970,75 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(statmount, const struct __mount_arg __user *, req,
> >         return ret;
> >  }
> >
> > +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;
> > +       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;
> > +       }
> > +
> > +       if (reachable_only && !is_path_reachable(m, mnt->mnt_root, &rootmnt))
> > +               return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) ? 0 : -EPERM;
> > +
> > +       list_for_each_entry(r, &m->mnt_mounts, mnt_child) {
> > +               if (reachable_only &&
> > +                   !is_path_reachable(r, r->mnt.mnt_root, root))
> > +                       continue;
>
> I believe we would want to move the security_sb_statfs() call from
> above to down here; something like this I think ...
>
>   err = security_sb_statfs(r->mnt.mnt_root);
>   if (err)
>     /* if we can't access the mount, pretend it doesn't exist */
>     continue;

Hmm.  Why is this specific to listing mounts (i.e. why doesn't readdir
have a similar filter)?

Also why hasn't this come up with regards to the proc interfaces that
list mounts?

I just want to understand the big picture here.

Thanks,
Miklos




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