[PATCH 2/3 v2] devpts: resolve devpts bind-mounts

[Christian Brauner]

Most libcs will still look at /dev/ptmx when opening the master fd of a pty
device. When /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx and the TIOCGPTPEER
ioctl() is used to safely retrieve a file descriptor for the slave side of
the pty based on the master fd, the /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks will
point to /.

When the kernel tries to look up the root mount of the dentry for the slave
file descriptor it will detect that the dentry is escaping its bind-mount
since the root mount of the dentry is /dev/pts where the devpts is mounted
but the root mount of /dev/ptmx is /dev.

Having bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx not working correctly is a
regression. In addition, it is also a fairly common scenario in containers
employing user namespaces.

To handle bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx correctly we need to
walk up the bind-mounts for /dev/ptmx in devpts_mntget(). This also means
we need to remove the
"if (path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC)" check from
devpts_mntget(). However, devpts_acquire() needs to perform that check.
The reason is that while the devpts mounted at /dev/pts has devtmpfs
mounted at /dev as its parent mount:

21 -- -- / /dev
-- 21 -- / /dev/pts

they are on different devices

-- -- 0:6  / /dev
-- -- 0:20 / /dev/pts

which has the consequence that the pathname of the directory which forms
the root of the /dev/pts mount is /. So if we bind-mount /dev/pts/ptmx to
/dev/ptmx we will end up on the same device as the devtmpfs mount on
/dev/pts

-- -- 0:20 /ptmx /dev/ptmx

but given that / is the pathname of the directory which forms the root of
the /dev/pts bind-mount, the resulting source will be /ptmx. So in
devpts_acquire() we still need to check if
"(path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC)" and exit early before
we try to call path_pts(). If we call path_pts() in the bind-mount case we
will hit path_parent_directory() which will **not** yield /dev as parent
directory but rather / which will cause path_pts() to fail since it will
not find a "pts" directory underneath /. We should still perform the
path_pts() check in devpts_acquire() if we haven't found a suitable devpts
filesystem at open time but we should always try to exit early in
devpts_acquire() and defer resolving bind-mounts until devpts_mntget(). If
we fail in devpts_mntget() we will end up with a wrong
/proc/<pid>/fd/{0,1,2} symlink, if we fail in devpts_acquire() we will end
up with a failed open("/dev/ptmx") which is more troublesome.

Here's a little reproducer that presupposes a libc that uses TIOCGPTPEER in
its openpty() implementation:

unshare --mount
mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
chmod 666 /dev/ptmx
script
ls -al /proc/self/fd/0

with output:

lrwx------ 1 chb chb 64 Mar  7 16:41 /proc/self/fd/0 -> /

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
ChangeLog v1->v2:
* move removal of if (path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC)
  condition to separate patch with non-functional changes
ChangeLog v0->v1:
* remove
        /* Has the devpts filesystem already been found? */
        if (path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC)
	                return 0
  from devpts_ptmx_path()
* check superblock after devpts_ptmx_path() returned
---
 fs/devpts/inode.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index d3ddbb888874..249aba08e9e6 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -154,27 +154,34 @@ static int devpts_ptmx_path(struct path *path)
 
 struct vfsmount *devpts_mntget(struct file *filp, struct pts_fs_info *fsi)
 {
+	int err;
 	struct path path;
 
 	path = filp->f_path;
 	path_get(&path);
 
-	/* Has the devpts filesystem already been found? */
-	if (path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic != DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) {
-		int err;
+	if ((DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) == fsi) &&
+	    (path.mnt->mnt_root == fsi->ptmx_dentry)) {
+		/* Walk upward while the start point is a bind mount of
+		 * a single file.
+		 */
+		while (path.mnt->mnt_root == path.dentry)
+			if (follow_up(&path) == 0)
+				break;
+	}
 
-		err = devpts_ptmx_path(&path);
-		dput(path.dentry);
-		if (err) {
-			mntput(path.mnt);
-			return ERR_PTR(err);
-		}
+	err = devpts_ptmx_path(&path);
+	dput(path.dentry);
+	if (err) {
+		mntput(path.mnt);
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
 
 	if (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) != fsi) {
 		mntput(path.mnt);
 		return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 	}
+
 	return path.mnt;
 }
 
-- 
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