Since loopfs devices belong to a loopfs instance they have no business
polluting the host's devtmpfs mount and should not propagate out of the
namespace they belong to.
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 4 ++--
drivers/block/loop.c | 4 +++-
include/linux/device.h | 3 +++
3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index c9017e0584c0..77371ceb88fa 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev)
const char *tmp = NULL;
struct req req;
- if (!thread)
+ if (!thread || dev->no_devnode)
return 0;
req.mode = 0;
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev)
const char *tmp = NULL;
struct req req;
- if (!thread)
+ if (!thread || dev->no_devnode)
return 0;
req.name = device_get_devnode(dev, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tmp);
diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c
index 7a14fd3e4329..df75ca4ac040 100644
--- a/drivers/block/loop.c
+++ b/drivers/block/loop.c
@@ -2155,8 +2155,10 @@ static int loop_add(struct loop_device **l, int i, struct inode *inode)
disk->queue = lo->lo_queue;
sprintf(disk->disk_name, "loop%d", i);
#ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOPFS
- if (loopfs_i_sb(inode))
+ if (loopfs_i_sb(inode)) {
disk->user_ns = loopfs_i_sb(inode)->s_user_ns;
+ disk_to_dev(disk)->no_devnode = true;
+ }
#endif
add_disk(disk);
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index fa04dfd22bbc..9fa438e3e4ca 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -525,6 +525,8 @@ struct dev_links_info {
* sync_state() callback.
* @dma_coherent: this particular device is dma coherent, even if the
* architecture supports non-coherent devices.
+ * @no_devnode: whether device nodes associated with this device are kept out
+ * of devtmpfs (e.g. due to separate filesystem)
*
* At the lowest level, every device in a Linux system is represented by an
* instance of struct device. The device structure contains the information
@@ -625,6 +627,7 @@ struct device {
defined(CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_SYNC_DMA_FOR_CPU_ALL)
bool dma_coherent:1;
#endif
+ bool no_devnode:1;
};
static inline struct device *kobj_to_dev(struct kobject *kobj)
--
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