[RFC][PATCH 3/3] vfs: Lazily remove mounts on unlinked files and directories.

[Eric W. Biederman]

With the introduction of mount namespaces and bind mounts it because
possible to access files and directories that in other locations in
were used as mount points.  Especially with mount namespaces has
become very confusing why rm -rf somedir return -EBUSY because some
directory is mounted somewhere else.  With the addition of user
namespaces allowing unprivileged mounts this condition has gone from
annoying to allowing a DOS attack on more privileged users.

The simplest approach appears to be to remove the -EBUSY message,
allow unlink and rename, and lazily unmount the mount point.

In most cases this is less surprising as this is an implementation
of the normal unix behavior of allowing unlinking of files.

The change implemented in this patch allows the following to succeed:

The vfs does not currently follow paths up to the final component for
the rename and unlink system calls making the boldest version of this
idea the simplest to implement.  Which should it simple to spot problems
with this idea.

While different from our historical behavior this change does not look
like it will break anything, or introduce any security
vulnerabilities.  In a quick survey of all of the common mount points
on linux systems I found mount points in directories owned and
modifiable by root, and fuse fuse mounts in directories owned by the
``mounter'' of the fuse filesystem.  In both of these cases relying on
the permissions of the directory does not practically change the user
who is allowed to unmount the filesystem.

Attempting to anticipate cases I have not witnessed I observe that
every directory in a trusted path to a file must limit modification
such that no one else may modify that directory.  For files trusted by
suid root executables root most own and be the only user capable of
modifying the directory and all parent directories for the files to be
safe.  Therefore for mount points part of a trusted path only root
should be able to unlink any directory or file on that path.  Which
means after this change for a secured path only root can unmount
directories.

For mount points part of a path we can not trust we should not care if
the just disappear, as that is just another kind of arbitrary
manipulation.

So I conclude that the existing conditions will ensure that the permissions
on directories will be sufficiently limited that the new unmount on unlink
behavior will not cause problems.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/afs/dir.c           |    3 +-
 fs/dcache.c            |   80 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------------------
 fs/fuse/dir.c          |    3 +-
 fs/gfs2/dentry.c       |    4 +--
 fs/namei.c             |   31 ++++++------------
 fs/nfs/dir.c           |    5 +--
 fs/sysfs/dir.c         |    9 +-----
 include/linux/dcache.h |    3 +-
 8 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 87 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/afs/dir.c b/fs/afs/dir.c
index 646337dc5201..7fb69d45f1b9 100644
--- a/fs/afs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/afs/dir.c
@@ -686,8 +686,7 @@ not_found:
 
 out_bad:
 	/* don't unhash if we have submounts */
-	if (check_submounts_and_drop(dentry) != 0)
-		goto out_skip;
+	shrink_submounts_and_drop(dentry);
 
 	_debug("dropping dentry %s/%s",
 	       parent->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.name);
diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c
index 41000305d716..1e9bf96b0132 100644
--- a/fs/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/dcache.c
@@ -1373,7 +1373,7 @@ int d_set_mounted(struct dentry *dentry)
 	int ret = -ENOENT;
 	write_seqlock(&rename_lock);
 	for (p = dentry->d_parent; !IS_ROOT(p); p = p->d_parent) {
-		/* Need exclusion wrt. check_submounts_and_drop() */
+		/* Need exclusion wrt. shrink_submounts_and_drop() */
 		spin_lock(&p->d_lock);
 		if (unlikely(d_unhashed(p))) {
 			spin_unlock(&p->d_lock);
@@ -1478,70 +1478,56 @@ void shrink_dcache_parent(struct dentry *parent)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrink_dcache_parent);
 
-static enum d_walk_ret check_and_collect(void *_data, struct dentry *dentry)
+struct detach_data {
+	struct dentry *found;
+};
+static enum d_walk_ret do_detach_submounts(void *ptr, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	struct select_data *data = _data;
-
-	if (d_mountpoint(dentry)) {
-		data->found = -EBUSY;
-		return D_WALK_QUIT;
-	}
-
-	return select_collect(_data, dentry);
-}
+	struct detach_data *data = ptr;
 
-static void check_and_drop(void *_data)
-{
-	struct select_data *data = _data;
+	if (d_mountpoint(dentry))
+		data->found = dentry;
 
-	if (d_mountpoint(data->start))
-		data->found = -EBUSY;
-	if (!data->found)
-		__d_drop(data->start);
+	return data->found ? D_WALK_QUIT : D_WALK_CONTINUE;
 }
 
 /**
- * check_submounts_and_drop - prune dcache, check for submounts and drop
+ * detach_submounts - check for submounts and detach them.
  *
- * All done as a single atomic operation relative to has_unlinked_ancestor().
- * Returns 0 if successfully unhashed @parent.  If there were submounts then
- * return -EBUSY.
+ * @dentry: dentry to find mount points under.
  *
- * @dentry: dentry to prune and drop
+ * If dentry or any of it's children is a mount point detach those mounts.
  */
-int check_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
+void detach_submounts(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	int ret = 0;
-
-	/* Negative dentries can be dropped without further checks */
-	if (!dentry->d_inode) {
-		d_drop(dentry);
-		goto out;
-	}
-
+	struct detach_data data;
 	for (;;) {
-		struct select_data data;
-
-		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&data.dispose);
-		data.start = dentry;
-		data.found = 0;
+		data.found = NULL;
+		d_walk(dentry, &data, do_detach_submounts, NULL);
 
-		d_walk(dentry, &data, check_and_collect, check_and_drop);
-		ret = data.found;
-
-		if (!list_empty(&data.dispose))
-			shrink_dentry_list(&data.dispose);
-
-		if (ret <= 0)
+		if (!data.found)
 			break;
 
+		detach_mounts(data.found);
 		cond_resched();
 	}
+	detach_mounts(dentry);
+}
 
-out:
-	return ret;
+/**
+ * shrink_submounts_and_drop - detach submounts, prune dcache, and drop
+ *
+ * All done as a single atomic operation reletaive to d_set_mounted().
+ *
+ * @dentry: dentry to detach, prune and drop
+ */
+void shrink_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *dentry)
+{
+	d_drop(dentry);
+	detach_submounts(dentry);
+	shrink_dcache_parent(dentry);
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(check_submounts_and_drop);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(shrink_submounts_and_drop);
 
 /**
  * __d_alloc	-	allocate a dcache entry
diff --git a/fs/fuse/dir.c b/fs/fuse/dir.c
index 62b43b577bfc..b1cd7b79a325 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/dir.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/dir.c
@@ -259,8 +259,7 @@ out:
 
 invalid:
 	ret = 0;
-	if (check_submounts_and_drop(entry) != 0)
-		ret = 1;
+	shrink_submounts_and_drop(entry);
 	goto out;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/dentry.c b/fs/gfs2/dentry.c
index d3a5d4e29ba5..2ecc2b873829 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/dentry.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/dentry.c
@@ -93,9 +93,7 @@ invalid_gunlock:
 	if (!had_lock)
 		gfs2_glock_dq_uninit(&d_gh);
 invalid:
-	if (check_submounts_and_drop(dentry) != 0)
-		goto valid;
-
+	shrink_submounts_and_drop(dentry);
 	dput(parent);
 	return 0;
 
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 645268f23eb6..b18b017c946b 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3560,10 +3560,6 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 	dget(dentry);
 	mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 
-	error = -EBUSY;
-	if (d_mountpoint(dentry))
-		goto out;
-
 	error = security_inode_rmdir(dir, dentry);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
@@ -3575,6 +3571,7 @@ int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 
 	dentry->d_inode->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
 	dont_mount(dentry);
+	detach_mounts(dentry);
 
 out:
 	mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -3657,14 +3654,12 @@ int vfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
-	if (d_mountpoint(dentry))
-		error = -EBUSY;
-	else {
-		error = security_inode_unlink(dir, dentry);
+	error = security_inode_unlink(dir, dentry);
+	if (!error) {
+		error = dir->i_op->unlink(dir, dentry);
 		if (!error) {
-			error = dir->i_op->unlink(dir, dentry);
-			if (!error)
-				dont_mount(dentry);
+			dont_mount(dentry);
+			detach_mounts(dentry);
 		}
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
@@ -3988,10 +3983,6 @@ static int vfs_rename_dir(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	if (target)
 		mutex_lock(&target->i_mutex);
 
-	error = -EBUSY;
-	if (d_mountpoint(old_dentry) || d_mountpoint(new_dentry))
-		goto out;
-
 	error = -EMLINK;
 	if (max_links && !target && new_dir != old_dir &&
 	    new_dir->i_nlink >= max_links)
@@ -4006,6 +3997,7 @@ static int vfs_rename_dir(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	if (target) {
 		target->i_flags |= S_DEAD;
 		dont_mount(new_dentry);
+		detach_mounts(new_dentry);
 	}
 out:
 	if (target)
@@ -4031,16 +4023,15 @@ static int vfs_rename_other(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
 	if (target)
 		mutex_lock(&target->i_mutex);
 
-	error = -EBUSY;
-	if (d_mountpoint(old_dentry)||d_mountpoint(new_dentry))
-		goto out;
-
 	error = old_dir->i_op->rename(old_dir, old_dentry, new_dir, new_dentry);
 	if (error)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (target)
+	if (target) {
 		dont_mount(new_dentry);
+		detach_mounts(new_dentry);
+	}
+	detach_mounts(old_dentry);
 	if (!(old_dir->i_sb->s_type->fs_flags & FS_RENAME_DOES_D_MOVE))
 		d_move(old_dentry, new_dentry);
 out:
diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 854a8f05a610..e8e35acd8850 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -1142,10 +1142,7 @@ out_zap_parent:
 		if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_DISCONNECTED)
 			goto out_valid;
 	}
-	/* If we have submounts, don't unhash ! */
-	if (check_submounts_and_drop(dentry) != 0)
-		goto out_valid;
-
+	shrink_submounts_and_drop(dentry);
 	dput(parent);
 	dfprintk(LOOKUPCACHE, "NFS: %s(%s/%s) is invalid\n",
 			__func__, dentry->d_parent->d_name.name,
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/dir.c b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
index 4d83cedb9fcb..477c66d4e2a8 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/dir.c
@@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ static int sysfs_dentry_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 	}
 
 	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
-out_valid:
 	return 1;
 out_bad:
 	/* Remove the dentry from the dcache hashes.
@@ -341,13 +340,7 @@ out_bad:
 	 * to the dcache hashes.
 	 */
 	mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
-
-	/* If we have submounts we must allow the vfs caches
-	 * to lie about the state of the filesystem to prevent
-	 * leaks and other nasty things.
-	 */
-	if (check_submounts_and_drop(dentry) != 0)
-		goto out_valid;
+	shrink_submounts_and_drop(dentry);
 
 	return 0;
 }
diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h
index 59066e0b4ff1..17948b49f3d5 100644
--- a/include/linux/dcache.h
+++ b/include/linux/dcache.h
@@ -254,7 +254,8 @@ extern void d_prune_aliases(struct inode *);
 
 /* test whether we have any submounts in a subdir tree */
 extern int have_submounts(struct dentry *);
-extern int check_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *);
+extern void detach_submounts(struct dentry *dentry);
+extern void shrink_submounts_and_drop(struct dentry *);
 
 /*
  * This adds the entry to the hash queues.
-- 
1.7.5.4

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