[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.28.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 5cca78bdca394b44657238e1dc067cc74bf68d45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 16:26:53 -0700
Subject: mnt: Only change user settable mount flags in remount

commit a6138db815df5ee542d848318e5dae681590fccd upstream.

Kenton Varda <kenton at sandstorm.io> discovered that by remounting a
read-only bind mount read-only in a user namespace the
MNT_LOCK_READONLY bit would be cleared, allowing an unprivileged user
to the remount a read-only mount read-write.

Correct this by replacing the mask of mount flags to preserve
with a mask of mount flags that may be changed, and preserve
all others.   This ensures that any future bugs with this mask and
remount will fail in an easy to detect way where new mount flags
simply won't change.

Acked-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn at ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/namespace.c        | 2 +-
 include/linux/mount.h | 4 +++-
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 5dd7709..ddbd5bc 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1782,7 +1782,7 @@ static int do_remount(struct path *path, int flags, int mnt_flags,
 		err = do_remount_sb(sb, flags, data, 0);
 	if (!err) {
 		br_write_lock(&vfsmount_lock);
-		mnt_flags |= mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_PROPAGATION_MASK;
+		mnt_flags |= mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & ~MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK;
 		mnt->mnt.mnt_flags = mnt_flags;
 		br_write_unlock(&vfsmount_lock);
 	}
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index 73005f9..16fc05d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -42,7 +42,9 @@ struct mnt_namespace;
  * flag, consider how it interacts with shared mounts.
  */
 #define MNT_SHARED_MASK	(MNT_UNBINDABLE)
-#define MNT_PROPAGATION_MASK	(MNT_SHARED | MNT_UNBINDABLE)
+#define MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK  (MNT_NOSUID | MNT_NODEV | MNT_NOEXEC \
+				 | MNT_NOATIME | MNT_NODIRATIME | MNT_RELATIME \
+				 | MNT_READONLY)


 #define MNT_INTERNAL	0x4000
--
1.9.1