Re: [REVIEW][PATCH 3/3] vfs: Fix a regression in mounting proc

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On 11/27, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Just to avoid the possible confusion, let me repeat that the fix itsef
> > looks "obviously fine" to me, "i_nlink != 2" looks obviously wrong.
> >
> > I am not arguing with this patch, I am just trying to understand this
> > logic.
> >
> > On 11/27, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>
> >> [... snip ...]
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> >> For the real concern about jail environments where proc and sysfs are
> >> not mounted at all a fs_visible check is all that is really required,
> >
> > this is what I can't understand...
> >
> > Lets ignore the implementation details. Suppose that proc was never
> > mounted. Then "mount -t proc" should fail after CLONE_NEWUSER | NEWNS?
>
> Yes.

OK, and I agree this makes sense. Just from the code inspection it wasn't
clear to me if this was intended or not. Plus nlink("/proc/sys") == 1 added
more confusion ;)

Thanks to all.

Oleg.

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