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. 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 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 filesystem context handling for procfs, nfs, mqueue, cpuset, kernfs, sysfs, cgroup and afs filesystems. Non-converted filesystems are handled by the legacy filesystem wrapper. This post is mostly about the internal filesystem context and the special kernel interface filesystems. I've included the fsopen() and fsmount() syscall implementations for reference, but I expect these to undergo some reconsideration during LSF. The last five patches relate to the AFS conversion and are included as an example. Significant changes: ver #7: (*) Undo an incorrect MS_* -> SB_* conversion. (*) Pass the mount data buffer size to all the mount-related functions that take the data pointer. This fixes a problem where someone (say SELinux) tries to copy the mount data, assuming it to be a page in size, and overruns the buffer - thereby incurring an oops by hitting a guard page. (*) Made the AFS filesystem use them as an example. This is a much easier to deal with than with NFS or Ext4 as there are very few mount options. ver #6: (*) Dropped the supplementary error string facility for the moment. (*) Dropped the NFS patches for the moment. (*) Dropped the reserved file descriptor argument from fsopen() and replaced it with three reserved pointers that must be NULL. 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. Possible 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 (24): vfs: Undo an overly zealous MS_RDONLY -> SB_RDONLY conversion VFS: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled VFS: Introduce the structs and doc for a filesystem context VFS: Add LSM hooks for filesystem context apparmor: Implement security hooks for the new mount API tomoyo: Implement security hooks for the new mount API smack: Implement filesystem context security hooks VFS: Require specification of size of mount data for internal mounts VFS: Implement a filesystem superblock creation/configuration context VFS: Remove unused code after filesystem context changes procfs: Move proc_fill_super() to fs/proc/root.c proc: Add fs_context support to procfs ipc: Convert mqueue fs to fs_context cpuset: Use fs_context kernfs, sysfs, cgroup, intel_rdt: Support fs_context hugetlbfs: Convert to fs_context VFS: Remove kern_mount_data() VFS: Implement fsopen() to prepare for a mount VFS: Implement fsmount() to effect a pre-configured mount afs: Fix server record deletion net: Export get_proc_net() afs: Add fs_context support afs: Implement namespacing afs: Use fs_context to pass parameters over automount Documentation/filesystems/mounting.txt | 445 +++++++++++++++ arch/arc/kernel/setup.c | 1 arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c | 1 arch/ia64/kernel/perfmon.c | 3 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/inode.c | 6 arch/s390/hypfs/inode.c | 7 arch/sh/kernel/setup.c | 1 arch/sparc/kernel/setup_32.c | 1 arch/sparc/kernel/setup_64.c | 1 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 2 arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel_rdt_rdtgroup.c | 125 ++-- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 1 drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 7 drivers/dax/super.c | 2 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_drv.c | 3 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gemfs.c | 2 drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_fs.c | 7 drivers/misc/ibmasm/ibmasmfs.c | 11 drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c | 26 + drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c | 8 .../staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_internal.h | 2 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/llite_lib.c | 3 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/obdclass/obd_mount.c | 7 drivers/staging/ncpfs/inode.c | 10 drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_fs.c | 7 drivers/usb/gadget/legacy/inode.c | 7 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 2 drivers/xen/xenfs/super.c | 7 fs/9p/vfs_super.c | 2 fs/Makefile | 3 fs/adfs/super.c | 9 fs/affs/super.c | 13 fs/afs/cell.c | 4 fs/afs/internal.h | 46 +- fs/afs/main.c | 33 + fs/afs/mntpt.c | 151 +++-- fs/afs/proc.c | 89 ++- fs/afs/server.c | 9 fs/afs/super.c | 438 ++++++++------- fs/afs/volume.c | 4 fs/aio.c | 3 fs/anon_inodes.c | 3 fs/autofs4/autofs_i.h | 2 fs/autofs4/init.c | 4 fs/autofs4/inode.c | 3 fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 11 fs/bfs/inode.c | 8 fs/binfmt_misc.c | 7 fs/block_dev.c | 2 fs/btrfs/super.c | 30 + fs/btrfs/tests/btrfs-tests.c | 2 fs/ceph/super.c | 3 fs/cifs/cifs_dfs_ref.c | 3 fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 5 fs/coda/inode.c | 11 fs/configfs/mount.c | 7 fs/cramfs/inode.c | 17 - fs/debugfs/inode.c | 14 fs/devpts/inode.c | 10 fs/ecryptfs/main.c | 2 fs/efivarfs/super.c | 9 fs/efs/super.c | 14 fs/exofs/super.c | 7 fs/ext2/super.c | 14 fs/ext4/super.c | 16 - fs/f2fs/super.c | 13 fs/fat/inode.c | 3 fs/fat/namei_msdos.c | 8 fs/fat/namei_vfat.c | 8 fs/freevxfs/vxfs_super.c | 12 fs/fs_context.c | 593 ++++++++++++++++++++ fs/fsopen.c | 304 ++++++++++ fs/fuse/control.c | 9 fs/fuse/inode.c | 16 - fs/gfs2/ops_fstype.c | 6 fs/gfs2/super.c | 4 fs/hfs/super.c | 12 fs/hfsplus/super.c | 12 fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 7 fs/hpfs/super.c | 11 fs/hugetlbfs/inode.c | 327 ++++++----- fs/internal.h | 5 fs/isofs/inode.c | 11 fs/jffs2/super.c | 10 fs/jfs/super.c | 11 fs/kernfs/mount.c | 90 ++- fs/libfs.c | 17 + fs/minix/inode.c | 14 fs/namespace.c | 422 ++++++++++---- fs/nfs/internal.h | 4 fs/nfs/namespace.c | 3 fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c | 3 fs/nfs/nfs4super.c | 27 + fs/nfs/super.c | 22 - fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 8 fs/nilfs2/super.c | 10 fs/nsfs.c | 3 fs/ntfs/super.c | 13 fs/ocfs2/dlmfs/dlmfs.c | 5 fs/ocfs2/super.c | 14 fs/omfs/inode.c | 9 fs/openpromfs/inode.c | 11 fs/orangefs/orangefs-kernel.h | 2 fs/orangefs/super.c | 5 fs/overlayfs/super.c | 11 fs/pipe.c | 3 fs/pnode.c | 1 fs/proc/inode.c | 50 -- fs/proc/internal.h | 6 fs/proc/proc_net.c | 3 fs/proc/root.c | 202 +++++-- fs/pstore/inode.c | 10 fs/qnx4/inode.c | 14 fs/qnx6/inode.c | 14 fs/ramfs/inode.c | 6 fs/reiserfs/super.c | 14 fs/romfs/super.c | 13 fs/squashfs/super.c | 12 fs/super.c | 389 ++++++++++--- fs/sysfs/mount.c | 59 +- fs/sysv/inode.c | 3 fs/sysv/super.c | 16 - fs/tracefs/inode.c | 10 fs/ubifs/super.c | 5 fs/udf/super.c | 16 - fs/ufs/super.c | 11 fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 10 include/linux/cgroup.h | 3 include/linux/debugfs.h | 8 include/linux/fs.h | 40 + include/linux/fs_context.h | 106 ++++ include/linux/kernfs.h | 37 + include/linux/lsm_hooks.h | 74 ++ include/linux/mount.h | 7 include/linux/mtd/super.h | 4 include/linux/proc_fs.h | 2 include/linux/ramfs.h | 4 include/linux/security.h | 62 ++ include/linux/shmem_fs.h | 3 include/linux/syscalls.h | 4 include/uapi/linux/fs.h | 56 -- include/uapi/linux/magic.h | 1 include/uapi/linux/mount.h | 58 ++ init/do_mounts.c | 5 init/do_mounts_initrd.c | 1 ipc/mqueue.c | 115 +++- kernel/bpf/inode.c | 7 kernel/cgroup/cgroup-internal.h | 42 + kernel/cgroup/cgroup-v1.c | 295 +++++----- kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c | 219 ++++--- kernel/cgroup/cpuset.c | 65 ++ kernel/sys_ni.c | 4 kernel/trace/trace.c | 7 mm/shmem.c | 10 mm/zsmalloc.c | 3 net/socket.c | 3 net/sunrpc/rpc_pipe.c | 7 security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 8 security/apparmor/include/mount.h | 11 security/apparmor/lsm.c | 84 +++ security/apparmor/mount.c | 47 ++ security/inode.c | 7 security/security.c | 60 ++ security/selinux/hooks.c | 292 +++++++++- security/selinux/selinuxfs.c | 8 security/smack/smack_lsm.c | 344 ++++++++++-- security/smack/smackfs.c | 9 security/tomoyo/common.h | 3 security/tomoyo/mount.c | 43 + security/tomoyo/tomoyo.c | 19 + 171 files changed, 5105 insertions(+), 1739 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/filesystems/mounting.txt create mode 100644 fs/fs_context.c create mode 100644 fs/fsopen.c create mode 100644 include/linux/fs_context.h create mode 100644 include/uapi/linux/mount.h