[PATCH v2] fs/namespace: notify pollers of legacy propagation changes

[Guopeng Zhang]

From: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@xxxxxxxxxx>

Changing mount propagation through the legacy mount API changes
user-visible mountinfo contents, including the shared: and master:
optional fields.

The mount_setattr() path already touches the mount namespace after
change_mnt_propagation(), so pollers of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo are woken
when the namespace event changes.

The legacy mount --make-* path also changes propagation through
change_mnt_propagation(), and MOVE_MOUNT_SET_GROUP updates the
propagation relationship of the target mount. Both paths currently
return without touching the affected mount namespace.

As a result, userspace polling /proc/<pid>/mountinfo can miss these
propagation-only changes even though mountinfo has changed.

A simple reproducer that polls /proc/self/mountinfo while changing
propagation shows the inconsistency.

Before this change:

  legacy MS_SHARED: poll ret=0 revents=0x0
  mount_setattr MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa

After this change:

  legacy MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa
  mount_setattr MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa

Fix this by touching the affected mount namespace after successful
propagation changes in do_change_type() and do_set_group().

Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Use guard(mount_locked_reader)() instead of lock_mount_hash() around
  touch_mnt_namespace(), as suggested by Christian, to avoid forcing
  seqcount readers to retry for propagation-only changes.

v1:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260529095441.1744006-1-guopeng.zhang@xxxxxxxxx/

 fs/namespace.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 9a66a806a9b8..f01d4b9cf65d 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -2908,6 +2908,9 @@ static int do_change_type(const struct path *path, int ms_flags)
 	for (m = mnt; m; m = (recurse ? next_mnt(m, mnt) : NULL))
 		change_mnt_propagation(m, type);
 
+	guard(mount_locked_reader)();
+	touch_mnt_namespace(mnt->mnt_ns);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -3479,6 +3482,10 @@ static int do_set_group(const struct path *from_path, const struct path *to_path
 		list_add(&to->mnt_share, &from->mnt_share);
 		set_mnt_shared(to);
 	}
+
+	guard(mount_locked_reader)();
+	touch_mnt_namespace(to->mnt_ns);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 
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2.43.0