Re: Patch "vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree

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On Fri, 2015-07-10 at 01:06 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:07:00PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 09:35:08AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > 
> > > > > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 08:31:40AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Are:
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > mnt: Refactor the logic for mounting sysfs and proc in a user namespace 1b852bceb0d111e510d1a15826ecc4a19358d512
> > > > > > mnt: Modify fs_fully_visible to deal with locked ro nodev and atime     8c6cf9cc829fcd0b179b59f7fe288941d0e31108
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > coming?
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Anyone being able to remove the read-only mount status of
> > > > > > proc and sysfs is scary bug.  I think I have seen CVE flying
> > > > > 
> > > > > I was going to wait for the next round of stable kernels for these
> > > > > fixes, I had to draw the line somewhere.  I wasn't aware there was a CVE
> > > > > for this, if you think they should go in now, I'll go add them.
[...]
> > But a hint as to how far back they are needed would be great, they all
> > don't apply cleanly and I need to know how hard I need to work on
> > these for older kernel versions.
> 
> It looks like fs_fully_visible did not come in until 3.12-rc1.  So I
> don't think it is reasonable to worry about backporting things farther
> than 3.12-rc1.
> 
> The infrastructure just is not in place in 3.10.  3.10 as I recall also
> did not have xfs user namespace support which should have resulted in
> user namespaces being disabled in most instances.

But they are still applicable to 3.14, right?   Greg, can you look at
these again?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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