The patch titled fs/namespace.c: bound mount propagation fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fs-namespacec-bound-mount-propagation-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: fs/namespace.c: bound mount propagation fix From: Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@xxxxxxxxx> This issue was discovered by users of busybox. Apparently, mount is called with and without MS_SILENT, and this affects mount() behaviour. But MS_SILENT is only supposed to affect kernel logging verbosity. The following script was run in an empty test directory: mkdir -p mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 touch mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount -vv --bind mount.shared1 mount.shared1 mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared1 mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared2 mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared2 mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared1 mount -vv --bind mount.dir mount.shared2 ls -R mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null rm -f mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount.dir/c rmdir mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 mount -vv was used to show the mount() call arguments and result. Output shows that flag argument has 0x00008000 = MS_SILENT bit: mount: mount('mount.shared1','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('','mount.shared1','',0x0010c000,''):0 mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('','mount.shared2','',0x0010c000,''):0 mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('mount.dir','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount.dir: a b mount.shared1: mount.shared2: a b After adding --loud option to remove MS_SILENT bit from just one mount cmd: mkdir -p mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 touch mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount -vv --bind mount.shared1 mount.shared1 2>&1 mount -vv --make-rshared mount.shared1 2>&1 mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared2 2>&1 mount -vv --loud --make-rshared mount.shared2 2>&1 # <-HERE mount -vv --bind mount.shared2 mount.shared1 2>&1 mount -vv --bind mount.dir mount.shared2 2>&1 ls -R mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>&1 umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null umount mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 2>/dev/null rm -f mount.dir/a mount.dir/b mount.dir/c rmdir mount.dir mount.shared1 mount.shared2 The result is different now - look closely at mount.shared1 directory listing. Now it does show files 'a' and 'b': mount: mount('mount.shared1','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('','mount.shared1','',0x0010c000,''):0 mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('','mount.shared2','',0x00104000,''):0 mount: mount('mount.shared2','mount.shared1','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount: mount('mount.dir','mount.shared2','(null)',0x00009000,'(null)'):0 mount.dir: a b mount.shared1: a b mount.shared2: a b Moreover, the recently added flags_to_propagation_type() function doesn't allow us to do such operations as --make-[r]private --make-[r]shared etc. when MS_SILENT is on. The idea or clearing the MS_SILENT flag came from to Denys Vlasenko. Signed-off-by: Roman Borisov <ext-roman.borisov@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/namespace.c~fs-namespacec-bound-mount-propagation-fix fs/namespace.c --- a/fs/namespace.c~fs-namespacec-bound-mount-propagation-fix +++ a/fs/namespace.c @@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ static int graft_tree(struct vfsmount *m static int flags_to_propagation_type(int flags) { - int type = flags & ~MS_REC; + int type = flags & ~(MS_REC | MS_SILENT); /* Fail if any non-propagation flags are set */ if (type & ~(MS_SHARED | MS_PRIVATE | MS_SLAVE | MS_UNBINDABLE)) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ext-roman.borisov@xxxxxxxxx are fs-namespacec-bound-mount-propagation-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html