Re: [PATCH 05/24] devtmpfs: open code ksys_chdir and ksys_chroot

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 06:16:27PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 09:49:17AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 9:28 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > +
> > > +       /* traverse into overmounted root and then chroot to it */
> > > +       if (!kern_path("/..", LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_DIRECTORY, &path) &&
> > > +           !inode_permission(path.dentry->d_inode, MAY_EXEC | MAY_CHDIR) &&
> > > +           ns_capable(current_user_ns(), CAP_SYS_CHROOT) &&
> > > +           !security_path_chroot(&path)) {
> > > +               set_fs_pwd(current->fs, &path);
> > > +               set_fs_root(current->fs, &path);
> > > +       }
> > > +       path_put(&path);
> > 
> > This looks wrong.
> 
> It is wrong.  kern_path() leaves *path unmodified in case of error, and
> that struct path is uninitialized here.

Yep.  Only saving grace is that the error just doesn't happen during
early init.