vfs: Don't allow overwriting mounts in the current mount namespace

In preparation for allowing mountpoints to be renamed and unlinked
in remote filesystems and in other mount namespaces test if on a dentry
there is a mount in the local mount namespace before allowing it to
be renamed or unlinked.

The primary motivation here are old versions of fusermount unmount
which is not safe if the a path can be renamed or unlinked while it is
verifying the mount is safe to unmount.  More recent versions are simpler
and safer by simply using UMOUNT_NOFOLLOW when unmounting a mount
in a directory owned by an arbitrary user.

Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> reports this is approach is good
enough to remove concerns about new kernels mixed with old versions
of fusermount.

A secondary motivation for restrictions here is that it removing empty
directories that have non-empty mount points on them appears to
violate the rule that rmdir can not remove empty directories.  As
Linus Torvalds pointed out this is useful for programs (like git) that
test if a directory is empty with rmdir.

Therefore this patch arranges to enforce the existing mount point
semantics for local mount namespace.

v2: Rewrote the test to be a drop in replacement for d_mountpoint
v3: Use bool instead of int as the return type of is_local_mountpoint

Reviewed-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 35 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 044134315f9..77ffdb82f63 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -667,6 +667,41 @@ struct vfsmount *lookup_mnt(struct path *path)
 	return m;
 }
 
+/*
+ * __is_local_mountpoint - Test to see if dentry is a mountpoint in the
+ *                         current mount namespace.
+ *
+ * The common case is dentries are not mountpoints at all and that
+ * test is handled inline.  For the slow case when we are actually
+ * dealing with a mountpoint of some kind, walk through all of the
+ * mounts in the current mount namespace and test to see if the dentry
+ * is a mountpoint.
+ *
+ * The mount_hashtable is not usable in the context because we
+ * need to identify all mounts that may be in the current mount
+ * namespace not just a mount that happens to have some specified
+ * parent mount.
+ */
+bool __is_local_mountpoint(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	struct mnt_namespace *ns = current->nsproxy->mnt_ns;
+	struct mount *mnt;
+	bool is_covered = false;
+
+	if (!d_mountpoint(dentry))
+		goto out;
+
+	down_read(&namespace_sem);
+	list_for_each_entry(mnt, &ns->list, mnt_list) {
+		is_covered = (mnt->mnt_mountpoint == dentry);
+		if (is_covered)
+			break;
+	}
+	up_read(&namespace_sem);
+out:
+	return is_covered;
+}
+
 static struct mountpoint *new_mountpoint(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct hlist_head *chain = mp_hash(dentry);