3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 90563b198e4c6674c63672fae1923da467215f45 upstream. When a read-only bind mount is copied from mount namespace in a higher privileged user namespace to a mount namespace in a lesser privileged user namespace, it should not be possible to remove the the read-only restriction. Add a MNT_LOCK_READONLY mount flag to indicate that a mount must remain read-only. Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 3 +++ include/linux/mount.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+) --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1736,6 +1736,9 @@ static int change_mount_flags(struct vfs if (readonly_request == __mnt_is_readonly(mnt)) return 0; + if (mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_LOCK_READONLY) + return -EPERM; + if (readonly_request) error = mnt_make_readonly(real_mount(mnt)); else --- a/include/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/linux/mount.h @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ struct mnt_namespace; #define MNT_INTERNAL 0x4000 +#define MNT_LOCK_READONLY 0x400000 + struct vfsmount { struct dentry *mnt_root; /* root of the mounted tree */ struct super_block *mnt_sb; /* pointer to superblock */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html