[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible" has been added to staging queue
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Thu Jul 16 01:06:51 UTC 2015
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible
to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.y-ckt4.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From f63a6a49f3f766c49604ad8df2bc2fe510912322 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2015 08:10:09 -0600
Subject: vfs: Ignore unlocked mounts in fs_fully_visible
commit ceeb0e5d39fcdf4dca2c997bf225c7fc49200b37 upstream.
Limit the mounts fs_fully_visible considers to locked mounts.
Unlocked can always be unmounted so considering them adds hassle
but no security benefit.
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
fs/namespace.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 34669cc..3d29b31 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -3166,11 +3166,15 @@ static bool fs_fully_visible(struct file_system_type *type, int *new_mnt_flags)
((mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_ATIME_MASK) != (new_flags & MNT_ATIME_MASK)))
continue;
- /* This mount is not fully visible if there are any child mounts
- * that cover anything except for empty directories.
+ /* This mount is not fully visible if there are any
+ * locked child mounts that cover anything except for
+ * empty directories.
*/
list_for_each_entry(child, &mnt->mnt_mounts, mnt_child) {
struct inode *inode = child->mnt_mountpoint->d_inode;
+ /* Only worry about locked mounts */
+ if (!(mnt->mnt.mnt_flags & MNT_LOCKED))
+ continue;
if (!S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode))
goto next;
if (inode->i_nlink > 2)
--
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