Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On 17/10/2018 14:20, David Howells wrote:
>> David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I should probably check that the picked point is actually a mountpoint.
>> The root of the mount object at the path specified, that is, perhaps with
>> something like the attached.
>>
>> David
>
>
> I agree. I'm happy to see this is using the same check as do_remount().
>
>
> * change filesystem flags. dir should be a physical root of filesystem.
> * If you've mounted a non-root directory somewhere and want to do remount
> * on it - tough luck.
> */
Davids check will work for bind mounts as well. It just won't work it
just won't work for files or subdirectories of some mountpoint.
Eric
>> ---
>> diff --git a/fs/fsopen.c b/fs/fsopen.c
>> index f673e93ac456..aaaaa17a233c 100644
>> --- a/fs/fsopen.c
>> +++ b/fs/fsopen.c
>> @@ -186,6 +186,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(fspick, int, dfd, const char __user *, path, unsigned int, flags
>> if (ret < 0)
>> goto err;
>> + ret = -EINVAL;
>> + if (target.mnt->mnt_root != target.dentry)
>> + goto err_path;
>> +
>> fc = vfs_new_fs_context(target.dentry->d_sb->s_type, target.dentry,
>> 0, 0, FS_CONTEXT_FOR_RECONFIGURE);
>> if (IS_ERR(fc)) {
>>
