Here are a set of patches to create a filesystem context prior to setting up a new mount, populating it with the parsed options/binary data, creating the superblock and then effecting the mount. This is also used for remount since much of the parsing stuff is common in many filesystems. This allows namespaces and other information to be conveyed through the mount procedure. A method is also provided by which supplementary error information to be retrieved (so many things can go wrong during a mount that a small integer isn't really sufficient to convey the issue). This also allows Miklós Szeredi's idea of doing: fd = fsopen("nfs"); write(fd, "option=val", ...); fsmount(fd, "/mnt"); that he presented at LSF-2017 to be implemented (see the relevant patches in the series). I add a prctl(PR_ERRMSG_ENABLE, 1); call to enable error message buffering and: prctl(PR_ERRMSG_READ, ...); to retrieve and discard the latest error message. I didn't use netlink as that would make the core kernel depend on CONFIG_NET and CONFIG_NETLINK and would introduce network namespacing issues. I've implemented mount context handling for procfs, nfs, mqueue, cpuset, kernfs, sysfs and cgroup filesystems. Significant changes: ver #5: (*) Renamed sb_config -> fs_context and adjusted variable names. (*) Differentiated the flags in sb->s_flags (now named SB_*) from those passed to mount(2) (named MS_*). (*) Renamed __vfs_new_fs_context() to vfs_new_fs_context() and made the caller always provide a struct file_system_type pointer and the parameters required. (*) Got rid of vfs_submount_fc() in favour of passing FS_CONTEXT_FOR_SUBMOUNT to vfs_new_fs_context(). The purpose is now used more. (*) Call ->validate() on the remount path. (*) Got rid of the inode locking in sys_fsmount(). (*) Call security_sb_mountpoint() in the mount(2) path. ver #4: (*) Split the sb_config patch up somewhat. (*) Made the supplementary error string facility something attached to the task_struct rather than the sb_config so that error messages can be obtained from NFS doing a mount-root-and-pathwalk inside the nfs_get_tree() operation. Further, made this managed and read by prctl rather than through the mount fd so that it's more generally available. ver #3: (*) Rebased on 4.12-rc1. (*) Split the NFS patch up somewhat. ver #2: (*) Removed the ->fill_super() from sb_config_operations and passed it in directly to functions that want to call it. NFS now calls nfs_fill_super() directly rather than jumping through a pointer to it since there's only the one option at the moment. (*) Removed ->mnt_ns and ->sb from sb_config and moved ->pid_ns into proc_sb_config. (*) Renamed create_super -> get_tree. (*) Renamed struct mount_context to struct sb_config and amended various variable names. (*) sys_fsmount() acquired AT_* flags and MS_* flags (for MNT_* flags) arguments. ver #1: (*) Split the sb_config stuff out into its own header. (*) Support non-context aware filesystems through a special set of sb_config operations. (*) Stored the created superblock and root dentry into the sb_config after creation rather than directly into a vfsmount. This allows some arguments to be removed to various NFS functions. (*) Added an explicit superblock-creation step. This allows a created superblock to then be mounted multiple times. (*) Added a flag to say that the sb_config is degraded and cannot have another go at having a superblock creation whilst getting rid of the one that says it's already mounted. Further developments: (*) Implement sb reconfiguration (for now it returns ENOANO). (*) Implement mount context support in more filesystems, ext4 being next on my list. (*) Move the walk-from-root stuff that nfs has to generic code so that you can do something akin to: mount /dev/sda1:/foo/bar /mnt See nfs_follow_remote_path() and mount_subtree(). This is slightly tricky in NFS as we have to prevent referral loops. (*) Work out how to get at the error message incurred by submounts encountered during nfs_follow_remote_path(). Should the error message be moved to task_struct and made more general, perhaps retrieved with a prctl() function? (*) Clean up/consolidate the security functions. Possibly add a validation hook to be called at the same time as the mount context validate op. The patches can be found here also: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs.git/log/?h=mount-context David --- David Howells (27): Provide a function to create a NUL-terminated string from unterminated data VFS: Clean up whitespace in fs/namespace.c and fs/super.c VFS: Make get_mnt_ns() return the namespace VFS: Make get_filesystem() return the affected filesystem VFS: Provide empty name qstr Provide supplementary error message facility VFS: Differentiate mount flags (MS_*) from internal superblock flags VFS: Introduce the structs and doc for a filesystem context VFS: Add LSM hooks for filesystem context VFS: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context VFS: Remove unused code after filesystem context changes VFS: Implement fsopen() to prepare for a mount VFS: Implement fsmount() to effect a pre-configured mount VFS: Add a sample program for fsopen/fsmount procfs: Move proc_fill_super() to fs/proc/root.c proc: Add fs_context support to procfs NFS: Move mount parameterisation bits into their own file NFS: Constify mount argument match tables NFS: Rename struct nfs_parsed_mount_data to struct nfs_fs_context NFS: Split nfs_parse_mount_options() NFS: Deindent nfs_fs_context_parse_option() NFS: Add a small buffer in nfs_fs_context to avoid string dup NFS: Do some tidying of the parsing code NFS: Add fs_context support. ipc: Convert mqueue fs to fs_context cpuset: Use fs_context kernfs, sysfs, cgroup: Support fs_context Documentation/filesystems/mounting.txt | 436 +++++ Documentation/filesystems/porting | 2 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 2 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 4 drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c | 6 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/file.c | 2 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c | 16 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/namei.c | 2 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmon.c | 6 drivers/video/fbdev/edid.h | 2 fs/9p/vfs_super.c | 6 fs/Makefile | 3 fs/adfs/super.c | 4 fs/affs/amigaffs.c | 4 fs/affs/bitmap.c | 8 fs/affs/super.c | 20 fs/afs/super.c | 4 fs/befs/ChangeLog | 2 fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 6 fs/btrfs/ctree.h | 2 fs/btrfs/dev-replace.c | 2 fs/btrfs/disk-io.c | 12 fs/btrfs/extent_io.c | 6 fs/btrfs/inode.c | 2 fs/btrfs/ioctl.c | 6 fs/btrfs/root-tree.c | 2 fs/btrfs/super.c | 60 - fs/btrfs/sysfs.c | 4 fs/btrfs/volumes.c | 6 fs/cachefiles/bind.c | 2 fs/ceph/super.c | 8 fs/cifs/cifs_fs_sb.h | 2 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 12 fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 4 fs/cifs/inode.c | 2 fs/cifs/xattr.c | 8 fs/coda/inode.c | 4 fs/cramfs/inode.c | 4 fs/dcache.c | 8 fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 10 fs/efs/super.c | 6 fs/ext2/balloc.c | 4 fs/ext2/ialloc.c | 4 fs/ext2/super.c | 30 fs/ext4/ext4_jbd2.c | 2 fs/ext4/file.c | 2 fs/ext4/fsync.c | 2 fs/ext4/ialloc.c | 2 fs/ext4/inode.c | 4 fs/ext4/mmp.c | 2 fs/ext4/super.c | 102 + fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c | 2 fs/f2fs/f2fs.h | 2 fs/f2fs/gc.c | 2 fs/f2fs/super.c | 24 fs/fat/fatent.c | 8 fs/fat/inode.c | 12 fs/fat/misc.c | 4 fs/fat/namei_msdos.c | 2 fs/filesystems.c | 3 fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c | 4 fs/fs-writeback.c | 2 fs/fs_context.c | 501 +++++ fs/fsopen.c | 273 +++ fs/fuse/inode.c | 12 fs/gfs2/dir.c | 3 fs/gfs2/glops.c | 2 fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 20 fs/gfs2/quota.c | 2 fs/gfs2/recovery.c | 2 fs/gfs2/super.c | 14 fs/gfs2/sys.c | 2 fs/gfs2/trans.c | 2 fs/hfs/mdb.c | 10 fs/hfs/super.c | 18 fs/hfsplus/super.c | 30 fs/hpfs/alloc.c | 4 fs/hpfs/dir.c | 2 fs/hpfs/map.c | 2 fs/hpfs/super.c | 20 fs/inode.c | 10 fs/internal.h | 4 fs/isofs/inode.c | 4 fs/jffs2/fs.c | 10 fs/jffs2/os-linux.h | 2 fs/jffs2/super.c | 6 fs/jffs2/wbuf.c | 4 fs/jfs/jfs_mount.c | 2 fs/jfs/super.c | 22 fs/kernfs/mount.c | 90 + fs/libfs.c | 22 fs/locks.c | 2 fs/minix/inode.c | 8 fs/mount.h | 3 fs/namei.c | 5 fs/namespace.c | 508 ++++-- fs/ncpfs/inode.c | 4 fs/nfs/Makefile | 6 fs/nfs/client.c | 74 - fs/nfs/dir.c | 2 fs/nfs/fs_context.c | 1499 ++++++++++++++++ fs/nfs/fscache.c | 2 fs/nfs/getroot.c | 72 - fs/nfs/internal.h | 131 + fs/nfs/namespace.c | 76 + fs/nfs/nfs3_fs.h | 2 fs/nfs/nfs3client.c | 6 fs/nfs/nfs3proc.c | 2 fs/nfs/nfs4_fs.h | 4 fs/nfs/nfs4client.c | 82 - fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 208 +- fs/nfs/nfs4proc.c | 3 fs/nfs/nfs4super.c | 220 +- fs/nfs/proc.c | 2 fs/nfs/super.c | 1836 ++------------------ fs/nilfs2/inode.c | 4 fs/nilfs2/mdt.c | 2 fs/nilfs2/segment.c | 2 fs/nilfs2/super.c | 40 fs/nilfs2/the_nilfs.c | 6 fs/notify/fsnotify.c | 2 fs/nsfs.c | 5 fs/ntfs/super.c | 56 - fs/ocfs2/file.c | 2 fs/ocfs2/super.c | 38 fs/ocfs2/xattr.c | 2 fs/openpromfs/inode.c | 4 fs/orangefs/super.c | 6 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 10 fs/pipe.c | 3 fs/proc/inode.c | 50 - fs/proc/internal.h | 6 fs/proc/root.c | 211 ++ fs/proc_namespace.c | 10 fs/qnx4/inode.c | 4 fs/qnx6/inode.c | 4 fs/quota/quota.c | 2 fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 4 fs/reiserfs/journal.c | 8 fs/reiserfs/prints.c | 6 fs/reiserfs/super.c | 34 fs/reiserfs/xattr.c | 10 fs/romfs/super.c | 4 fs/squashfs/super.c | 4 fs/statfs.c | 4 fs/super.c | 277 ++- fs/sync.c | 6 fs/sysfs/mount.c | 59 - fs/sysv/balloc.c | 2 fs/sysv/ialloc.c | 2 fs/sysv/inode.c | 4 fs/sysv/super.c | 4 fs/ubifs/file.c | 2 fs/ubifs/io.c | 2 fs/ubifs/super.c | 22 fs/ubifs/ubifs.h | 4 fs/udf/super.c | 18 fs/ufs/balloc.c | 8 fs/ufs/ialloc.c | 10 fs/ufs/super.c | 52 - fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c | 4 fs/xfs/xfs_quotaops.c | 10 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 12 fs/xfs/xfs_super.h | 2 include/linux/cgroup.h | 3 include/linux/dcache.h | 5 include/linux/fb.h | 2 include/linux/fs.h | 66 + include/linux/fs_context.h | 86 + include/linux/kernfs.h | 37 include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 47 - include/linux/mount.h | 2 include/linux/nfs_xdr.h | 7 include/linux/sched.h | 29 include/linux/security.h | 39 include/linux/string.h | 1 include/linux/syscalls.h | 3 include/uapi/linux/bfs_fs.h | 2 include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 include/uapi/linux/prctl.h | 6 init/do_mounts.c | 6 ipc/mqueue.c | 90 + kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h | 42 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 291 ++- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 172 +- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 58 - kernel/exit.c | 1 kernel/fork.c | 1 kernel/sys.c | 38 kernel/sys_ni.c | 4 mm/shmem.c | 10 mm/util.c | 24 samples/fsmount/test-fsmount.c | 92 + scripts/gdb/linux/constants.py.in | 12 scripts/gdb/linux/proc.py | 8 security/apparmor/include/lib.h | 2 security/security.c | 35 security/selinux/hooks.c | 201 ++ .../selftests/mount/unprivileged-remount-test.c | 8 200 files changed, 5839 insertions(+), 3415 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/mounting.txt create mode 100644 fs/fs_context.c create mode 100644 fs/fsopen.c create mode 100644 fs/nfs/fs_context.c create mode 100644 include/linux/fs_context.h create mode 100644 samples/fsmount/test-fsmount.c