Quoting Miklos Szeredi (miklos@xxxxxxxxxx): > On Thu, 04 Sep 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: > > > Are you going to revert the change forcing CL_SLAVE for > > > !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)? I don't think we want that - I think that > > > *within* a set of user mounts, propagation should be safe, right? > > > > > > Will you be able to do this soon? If not, should we just do the part > > > returning -EPERM when turning a shared mount into a user mount? > > > > OK, let's do that first and the tricky part (propagation vs. user > > mounts) later. Will push after I've tested it. > > Here it is: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git unprivileged-mounts > > I don't know what's next, this patchset has been in and out of -mm for > as long as I can remember, but it hasn't generated much interest > outside the two of us :) > > I do think this is an important feature though, even if not as sexy as > some other things. > > Al? Is there any chance of this making it to 2.6.28? > > Thanks, > Miklos Ok I should take the time to properly add these to ltp, but for now here is the result of 15-minutes of playing around with shell scripts to do some basic testing. Run usermounts_root.sh as root first, then usermounts_user as a user. Cleanup for the usermounts_root.sh side-effects is not done. Miklos, do you have better-thought-out or more complete testcases? -serge ===================================================================== FILE usermounts_root.sh ===================================================================== #!/bin/sh MMOUNTDIR=/usr/src/mmount-0.3 MOUNT=${MMOUNTDIR}/mmount UMOUNT=${MMOUNTIDR}/ummount mkdir -p /mnt/shared /mnt/slave /mnt/private mkdir /mnt/shared/d /mnt/slave/d /mnt/private/d touch /mnt/shared/a touch /mnt/slave/b touch /mnt/private/c mount --bind /mnt/shared /mnt/shared mount --make-rshared /mnt/shared mount --bind /mnt/shared /mnt/slave mount --make-rslave /mnt/slave ===================================================================== ===================================================================== FILE usermounts_user.sh ===================================================================== #!/bin/sh MMOUNTDIR=/usr/src/mmount-0.3 MOUNT=${MMOUNTDIR}/mmount UMOUNT=${MMOUNTDIR}/ummount mkdir t1 # user bind a root shared mount. Should fail -EPERM. $MOUNT --bind /mnt/shared t1 rc=$? if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then echo "FAIL: succeeded in user-binding a root-shared dir" exit 1 fi echo "PASS: first test passed (refused to user-bind a root-shared dir" # user bind a root shared mount, then bind into there. Make sure # that the two binds work, and the second is not propagated to the # first $MOUNT --bind /mnt/slave t1 $MOUNT --bind /mnt/private t1/d if [ ! -f t1/d/c ]; then echo "failed mounting private under slave/d" exit 1 fi if [ -f /mnt/slave/d/c ]; then echo "user mount of private under slave/d was propagated to /mnt/slave!" exit 1 fi if [ -f /mnt/shared/d/c ]; then echo "user mount of private under slave/d was propagated to /mnt/shared!" exit 1 fi ret=0 $UMOUNT t1/d || ret=1 $UMOUNT t1 || ret=1 if [ $ret -eq 1 ]; then echo "user umount refused in second test" exit 1 fi if [ -f t1/a ]; then echo "user umount failed in second test" exit 1 fi rmdir t1 echo "PASS: second test passed (user-mounts of root-slave and root-private dirs)" # bind mount /etc/shadow. First make sure that we cannot read # /etc/shadow and can read the target. Then make sure that we # can no longer read the target after the bind mount. cat /etc/shadow >> /dev/null rc=$? if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then echo "test 3: Oh no, I'm able to read /etc/shadow!" exit 1 fi echo ab > t1 cat t1 >> /dev/null rc=$? if [ $rc -ne 0 ]; then echo "test 3: Odd, couldn't read my own file." exit 1 fi $MOUNT --bind /etc/shadow t1 cat t1 >> /dev/null rc=$? if [ $rc -eq 0 ]; then echo "test 3: bind mount of /etc/shadow gave me read access!" exit 1 fi $UMOUNT t1 rm t1 echo "PASS: third test passed (user mount of file)" echo "all tests succeeded" exit 0 ===================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html