Re: [PATCH v7] Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.

[Ross Zwisler]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 12:36 PM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 04:28:03PM -0600, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> > diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/mount.h b/include/uapi/linux/mount.h
> > index 96a0240f23fed..dd8306ea336c1 100644
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/mount.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mount.h
> > @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
> >  #define MS_REMOUNT   32      /* Alter flags of a mounted FS */
> >  #define MS_MANDLOCK  64      /* Allow mandatory locks on an FS */
> >  #define MS_DIRSYNC   128     /* Directory modifications are synchronous */
> > +#define MS_NOSYMFOLLOW       256     /* Do not follow symlinks */
> >  #define MS_NOATIME   1024    /* Do not update access times. */
> >  #define MS_NODIRATIME        2048    /* Do not update directory access times */
> >  #define MS_BIND              4096
>
> Does this need to be added to MS_RMT_MASK too?

I don't think so, because IIUC that is only for "superblock flags",
i.e. flags which are part of the sb_flags definition in
do_mount()/path_mount()?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/fs/namespace.c#L3172

With the current code I'm able to remount and flip nosymfollow both
directions without issue.  Similarly, MS_NOEXEC can be turned on and
off at will, and it's not part of MS_RMT_MASK nor sb_flags.

Interestingly, though, if you change MS_RMT_MASK to be 0, I would
expect us to be unable to twiddle all the flags which are currently
part of it, but that isn't the case.   I was still able to change
between RO/RW, and turn on lazytime.

So, I think this flag is working as expected, but that there is
probably a bug in there somewhere WRT the handling of MS_RMT_MASK.