Now that remount is properly enforcing the rule that you can't remove nodev at least sandstorm.io is breaking when performing a remount. It turns out that there is an easy intuitive solution implicitly add nodev on remount when nodev was implicitly added on mount. Tested-by: Cedric Bosdonnat <cbosdonnat@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 5b66b2b3624d..3a1a87dc33df 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -2098,7 +2098,13 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int flags, int mnt_flags, } if ((mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCK_NODEV) && !(mnt_flags & MNT_NODEV)) { - return -EPERM; + /* Was the nodev implicitly added in mount? */ + if ((mnt->mnt_ns->user_ns != &init_user_ns) && + !(sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_USERNS_DEV_MOUNT)) { + mnt_flags |= MNT_NODEV; + } else { + return -EPERM; + } } if ((mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCK_NOSUID) && !(mnt_flags & MNT_NOSUID)) { -- 1.9.1 -- 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