fs: relax mount_setattr() permission checks

When we added mount_setattr() I added additional checks compared to the
legacy do_reconfigure_mnt() and do_change_type() helpers used by regular
mount(2).

fs: relax mount_setattr() permission checks

When we added mount_setattr() I added additional checks compared to the
legacy do_reconfigure_mnt() and do_change_type() helpers used by regular
mount(2). If that mount had a parent then verify that the caller and the
mount namespace the mount is attached to match and if not make sure that
it's an anonymous mount.

The real rootfs falls into neither category. It is neither an anoymous
mount because it is obviously attached to the initial mount namespace
but it also obviously doesn't have a parent mount. So that means legacy
mount(2) allows changing mount properties on the real rootfs but
mount_setattr(2) blocks this. I never thought much about this but of
course someone on this planet of earth changes properties on the real
rootfs as can be seen in [1].

Since util-linux finally switched to the new mount api in 2.39 not so
long ago it also relies on mount_setattr() and that surfaced this issue
when Fedora 39 finally switched to it. Fix this.

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256843
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206-vfs-mount-rootfs-v1-1-19b335eee133@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: rework listmount() implementation

Linus pointed out that there's error handling and naming issues in the
that we should rewrite:

* Perform the access checks for the buffer before actually doing

fs: rework listmount() implementation

Linus pointed out that there's error handling and naming issues in the
that we should rewrite:

* Perform the access checks for the buffer before actually doing any
work instead of doing it during the iteration.
* Rename the arguments to listmount() and do_listmount() to clarify what
the arguments are used for.
* Get rid of the pointless ctr variable and overflow checking.
* Get rid of the pointless speculation check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjh6Cypo8WC-McXgSzCaou3UXccxB+7PVeSuGR8AjCphg@mail.gmail.com
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels

fs: Remove the now superfluous sentinel elements from ctl_table array

This commit comes at the tail end of a greater effort to remove the
empty elements at the end of the ctl_table arrays (sentinels) which
will reduce the overall build time size of the kernel and run time
memory bloat by ~64 bytes per sentinel (further information Link :
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZO5Yx5JFogGi%2FcBo@bombadil.infradead.org/)

Remove sentinel elements ctl_table struct. Special attention was placed in
making sure that an empty directory for fs/verity was created when
CONFIG_FS_VERITY_BUILTIN_SIGNATURES is not defined. In this case we use the
register sysctl call that expects a size.

Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>

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fs: indicate request originates from old mount API

We already communicate to filesystems when a remount request comes from
the old mount API as some filesystems choose to implement different
behavio

fs: indicate request originates from old mount API

We already communicate to filesystems when a remount request comes from
the old mount API as some filesystems choose to implement different
behavior in the new mount API than the old mount API to e.g., take the
chance to fix significant API bugs. Allow the same for regular mount
requests.

Fixes: b330966f79fb ("fuse: reject options on reconfigure via fsconfig(2)")
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <johannes.thumshirn@wdc.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Jain <anand.jain@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com>
Reviewed-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>

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fs: keep struct mnt_id_req extensible

Make it extensible so that we have the liberty to reuse it in future
mount-id based apis. Treat zero size as the first published struct.

Signed-off-by: Christi

fs: keep struct mnt_id_req extensible

Make it extensible so that we have the liberty to reuse it in future
mount-id based apis. Treat zero size as the first published struct.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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add listmount(2) syscall

Add way to query the children of a particular mount. This is a more
flexible way to iterate the mount tree than having to parse
/proc/self/mountinfo.

Lookup the mount by t

add listmount(2) syscall

Add way to query the children of a particular mount. This is a more
flexible way to iterate the mount tree than having to parse
/proc/self/mountinfo.

Lookup the mount by the new 64bit mount ID. If a mount needs to be
queried based on path, then statx(2) can be used to first query the
mount ID belonging to the path.

Return an array of new (64bit) mount ID's. Without privileges only
mounts are listed which are reachable from the task's root.

Folded into this patch are several later improvements. Keeping them
separate would make the history pointlessly confusing:

* Recursive listing of mounts is the default now (cf. [1]).
* Remove explicit LISTMOUNT_UNREACHABLE flag (cf. [1]) and fail if mount
is unreachable from current root. This also makes permission checking
consistent with statmount() (cf. [3]).
* Start listing mounts in unique mount ID order (cf. [2]) to allow
continuing listmount() from a midpoint.
* Allow to continue listmount(). The @request_mask parameter is renamed
and to @param to be usable by both statmount() and listmount().
If @param is set to a mount id then listmount() will continue listing
mounts from that id on. This allows listing mounts in multiple
listmount invocations without having to resize the buffer. If @param
is zero then the listing starts from the beginning (cf. [4]).
* Don't return EOVERFLOW, instead return the buffer size which allows to
detect a full buffer as well (cf. [4]).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-6-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-2-mszeredi@redhat.com [1] (folded)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-3-mszeredi@redhat.com [2] (folded)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-4-mszeredi@redhat.com [3] (folded)
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231128160337.29094-5-mszeredi@redhat.com [4] (folded)
[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: various smaller fixes]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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statmount: simplify string option retrieval

The previous code was a bit too clever for what we currently support.

A few minor changes:

* Avoid indirect function calls and use a simple switch state

statmount: simplify string option retrieval

The previous code was a bit too clever for what we currently support.

A few minor changes:

* Avoid indirect function calls and use a simple switch statement. We
really only have three cases to handle so it's not like it's massively
complex. We can switch to something more elaborate should we introduce
more complex options.
* Defer all copy_to_user() calls until after we've given up namespace
semaphore.
On kernels with userfaultfd it's possible to abuse copy_from/to_user()
calls to indefinitely block on page faults. That's usually a
privileged operation but may be made available to unprivileged users.

Independent of userfaultfd it's better to not do all the
copy_to_user() work while holding namespace semaphore. Instead collect
the information and then copy it out after we've given up all locks.
* This also folds a change from Arnd to reduce the stack size in
prepare_kstatmount() to avoid warning such as:

fs/namespace.c:4995:1: error: stack frame size (1536) exceeds limit (1024) in '__se_sys_statmount' [-Werror,-Wframe-larger-than]
4995 | SYSCALL_DEFINE4(statmount, const struct mnt_id_req __user *, req,

Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213090015.518044-1-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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statmount: simplify numeric option retrieval

Don't use all of this indirection which makes it really hard to follow
the code which is very basic. Error handling is also not really neede
here at all.

statmount: simplify numeric option retrieval

Don't use all of this indirection which makes it really hard to follow
the code which is very basic. Error handling is also not really neede
here at all.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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add statmount(2) syscall

Add a way to query attributes of a single mount instead of having to parse
the complete /proc/$PID/mountinfo, which might be huge.

Lookup the mount the new 64bit mount ID.

add statmount(2) syscall

Add a way to query attributes of a single mount instead of having to parse
the complete /proc/$PID/mountinfo, which might be huge.

Lookup the mount the new 64bit mount ID. If a mount needs to be queried
based on path, then statx(2) can be used to first query the mount ID
belonging to the path.

Design is based on a suggestion by Linus:

"So I'd suggest something that is very much like "statfsat()", which gets
a buffer and a length, and returns an extended "struct statfs" *AND*
just a string description at the end."

The interface closely mimics that of statx.

Handle ASCII attributes by appending after the end of the structure (as per
above suggestion). Pointers to strings are stored in u64 members to make
the structure the same regardless of pointer size. Strings are nul
terminated.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wh5YifP7hzKSbwJj94+DZ2czjrZsczy6GBimiogZws=rg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-5-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>: various minor changes]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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mnt_idmapping: remove check_fsmapping()

The helper is a bit pointless. Just open-code the check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-vfs-mnt_idmap-v1-1-dae4abdde5bd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: C

mnt_idmapping: remove check_fsmapping()

The helper is a bit pointless. Just open-code the check.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231122-vfs-mnt_idmap-v1-1-dae4abdde5bd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: add missing @mp parameter documentation

Fix the W=1 build warning:

../fs/namespace.c:3050: warning: Function parameter or member 'mp' not described in 'can_move_mount_beneath'

Signed-off-by: C

fs: add missing @mp parameter documentation

Fix the W=1 build warning:

../fs/namespace.c:3050: warning: Function parameter or member 'mp' not described in 'can_move_mount_beneath'

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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namespace: extract show_path() helper

To be used by the statmount(2) syscall as well.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-4-ms

namespace: extract show_path() helper

To be used by the statmount(2) syscall as well.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-4-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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mounts: keep list of mounts in an rbtree

When adding a mount to a namespace insert it into an rbtree rooted in the
mnt_namespace instead of a linear list.

The mnt.mnt_list is still used to set up t

mounts: keep list of mounts in an rbtree

When adding a mount to a namespace insert it into an rbtree rooted in the
mnt_namespace instead of a linear list.

The mnt.mnt_list is still used to set up the mount tree and for
propagation, but not after the mount has been added to a namespace. Hence
mnt_list can live in union with rb_node. Use MNT_ONRB mount flag to
validate that the mount is on the correct list.

This allows removing the cursor used for reading /proc/$PID/mountinfo. The
mnt_id_unique of the next mount can be used as an index into the seq file.

Tested by inserting 100k bind mounts, unsharing the mount namespace, and
unmounting. No performance regressions have been observed.

For the last mount in the 100k list the statmount() call was more than 100x
faster due to the mount ID lookup not having to do a linear search. This
patch makes the overhead of mount ID lookup non-observable in this range.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-3-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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add unique mount ID

If a mount is released then its mnt_id can immediately be reused. This is
bad news for user interfaces that want to uniquely identify a mount.

Implementing a unique mount ID is

add unique mount ID

If a mount is released then its mnt_id can immediately be reused. This is
bad news for user interfaces that want to uniquely identify a mount.

Implementing a unique mount ID is trivial (use a 64bit counter).
Unfortunately userspace assumes 32bit size and would overflow after the
counter reaches 2^32.

Introduce a new 64bit ID alongside the old one. Initialize the counter to
2^32, this guarantees that the old and new IDs are never mixed up.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231025140205.3586473-2-mszeredi@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked

So happens it already was not doing it, but there is no need to "hope"
as indicated in the comment.

No changes in generated a

vfs: stop counting on gcc not messing with mnt_expiry_mark if not asked

So happens it already was not doing it, but there is no need to "hope"
as indicated in the comment.

No changes in generated assembly.

Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004111916.728135-3-mjguzik@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init

__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "

treewide: mark stuff as __ro_after_init

__read_mostly predates __ro_after_init. Many variables which are marked
__read_mostly should have been __ro_after_init from day 1.

Also, mark some stuff as "const" and "__init" while I'm at it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert sysctl_nr_open_min, sysctl_nr_open_max changes due to arm warning]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style cleanups]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6bb9c0-abba-4ee4-a7aa-89265e886817@p183
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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fs: export mnt_{get,put}_write_access() to modules

Overlayfs is going to use those to get write access on the upper mount
during entire copy up without taking freeze protection on upper sb for
the e

fs: export mnt_{get,put}_write_access() to modules

Overlayfs is going to use those to get write access on the upper mount
during entire copy up without taking freeze protection on upper sb for
the entire copy up.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230908132900.2983519-3-amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: rename __mnt_{want,drop}_write*() helpers

Before exporting these helpers to modules, make their names more
meaningful.

The names mnt_{get,put)_write_access*() were chosen, because they rhyme
wi

fs: rename __mnt_{want,drop}_write*() helpers

Before exporting these helpers to modules, make their names more
meaningful.

The names mnt_{get,put)_write_access*() were chosen, because they rhyme
with the inode {get,put)_write_access() helpers, which have a very close
meaning for the inode object.

Suggested-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230817-anfechtbar-ruhelosigkeit-8c6cca8443fc@brauner/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20230908132900.2983519-2-amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: Provide helpers for manipulating sb->s_readonly_remount

Provide helpers to set and clear sb->s_readonly_remount including
appropriate memory barriers. Also use this opportunity to document what

fs: Provide helpers for manipulating sb->s_readonly_remount

Provide helpers to set and clear sb->s_readonly_remount including
appropriate memory barriers. Also use this opportunity to document what
the barriers pair with and why they are needed.

Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20230620112832.5158-1-jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: allow to mount beneath top mount

Various distributions are adding or are in the process of adding support
for system extensions and in the future configuration extensions through
various tools.

fs: allow to mount beneath top mount

Various distributions are adding or are in the process of adding support
for system extensions and in the future configuration extensions through
various tools. A more detailed explanation on system and configuration
extensions can be found on the manpage which is listed below at [1].

System extension images may – dynamically at runtime — extend the /usr/
and /opt/ directory hierarchies with additional files. This is
particularly useful on immutable system images where a /usr/ and/or
/opt/ hierarchy residing on a read-only file system shall be extended
temporarily at runtime without making any persistent modifications.

When one or more system extension images are activated, their /usr/ and
/opt/ hierarchies are combined via overlayfs with the same hierarchies
of the host OS, and the host /usr/ and /opt/ overmounted with it
("merging"). When they are deactivated, the mount point is disassembled
— again revealing the unmodified original host version of the hierarchy
("unmerging"). Merging thus makes the extension's resources suddenly
appear below the /usr/ and /opt/ hierarchies as if they were included in
the base OS image itself. Unmerging makes them disappear again, leaving
in place only the files that were shipped with the base OS image itself.

System configuration images are similar but operate on directories
containing system or service configuration.

On nearly all modern distributions mount propagation plays a crucial
role and the rootfs of the OS is a shared mount in a peer group (usually
with peer group id 1):

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION MNT_ID PARENT_ID
/ / ext4 shared:1 29 1

On such systems all services and containers run in a separate mount
namespace and are pivot_root()ed into their rootfs. A separate mount
namespace is almost always used as it is the minimal isolation mechanism
services have. But usually they are even much more isolated up to the
point where they almost become indistinguishable from containers.

Mount propagation again plays a crucial role here. The rootfs of all
these services is a slave mount to the peer group of the host rootfs.
This is done so the service will receive mount propagation events from
the host when certain files or directories are updated.

In addition, the rootfs of each service, container, and sandbox is also
a shared mount in its separate peer group:

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION MNT_ID PARENT_ID
/ / ext4 shared:24 master:1 71 47

For people not too familiar with mount propagation, the master:1 means
that this is a slave mount to peer group 1. Which as one can see is the
host rootfs as indicated by shared:1 above. The shared:24 indicates that
the service rootfs is a shared mount in a separate peer group with peer
group id 24.

A service may run other services. Such nested services will also have a
rootfs mount that is a slave to the peer group of the outer service
rootfs mount.

For containers things are just slighly different. A container's rootfs
isn't a slave to the service's or host rootfs' peer group. The rootfs
mount of a container is simply a shared mount in its own peer group:

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION MNT_ID PARENT_ID
/home/ubuntu/debian-tree / ext4 shared:99 61 60

So whereas services are isolated OS components a container is treated
like a separate world and mount propagation into it is restricted to a
single well known mount that is a slave to the peer group of the shared
mount /run on the host:

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION MNT_ID PARENT_ID
/propagate/debian-tree /run/host/incoming tmpfs master:5 71 68

Here, the master:5 indicates that this mount is a slave to the peer
group with peer group id 5. This allows to propagate mounts into the
container and served as a workaround for not being able to insert mounts
into mount namespaces directly. But the new mount api does support
inserting mounts directly. For the interested reader the blogpost in [2]
might be worth reading where I explain the old and the new approach to
inserting mounts into mount namespaces.

Containers of course, can themselves be run as services. They often run
full systems themselves which means they again run services and
containers with the exact same propagation settings explained above.

The whole system is designed so that it can be easily updated, including
all services in various fine-grained ways without having to enter every
single service's mount namespace which would be prohibitively expensive.
The mount propagation layout has been carefully chosen so it is possible
to propagate updates for system extensions and configurations from the
host into all services.

The simplest model to update the whole system is to mount on top of
/usr, /opt, or /etc on the host. The new mount on /usr, /opt, or /etc
will then propagate into every service. This works cleanly the first
time. However, when the system is updated multiple times it becomes
necessary to unmount the first update on /opt, /usr, /etc and then
propagate the new update. But this means, there's an interval where the
old base system is accessible. This has to be avoided to protect against
downgrade attacks.

The vfs already exposes a mechanism to userspace whereby mounts can be
mounted beneath an existing mount. Such mounts are internally referred
to as "tucked". The patch series exposes the ability to mount beneath a
top mount through the new MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH flag for the move_mount()
system call. This allows userspace to seamlessly upgrade mounts. After
this series the only thing that will have changed is that mounting
beneath an existing mount can be done explicitly instead of just
implicitly.

Today, there are two scenarios where a mount can be mounted beneath an
existing mount instead of on top of it:

(1) When a service or container is started in a new mount namespace and
pivot_root()s into its new rootfs. The way this is done is by
mounting the new rootfs beneath the old rootfs:

fd_newroot = open("/var/lib/machines/fedora", ...);
fd_oldroot = open("/", ...);
fchdir(fd_newroot);
pivot_root(".", ".");

After the pivot_root(".", ".") call the new rootfs is mounted
beneath the old rootfs which can then be unmounted to reveal the
underlying mount:

fchdir(fd_oldroot);
umount2(".", MNT_DETACH);

Since pivot_root() moves the caller into a new rootfs no mounts must
be propagated out of the new rootfs as a consequence of the
pivot_root() call. Thus, the mounts cannot be shared.

(2) When a mount is propagated to a mount that already has another mount
mounted on the same dentry.

The easiest example for this is to create a new mount namespace. The
following commands will create a mount namespace where the rootfs
mount / will be a slave to the peer group of the host rootfs /
mount's peer group. IOW, it will receive propagation from the host:

mount --make-shared /
unshare --mount --propagation=slave

Now a new mount on the /mnt dentry in that mount namespace is
created. (As it can be confusing it should be spelled out that the
tmpfs mount on the /mnt dentry that was just created doesn't
propagate back to the host because the rootfs mount / of the mount
namespace isn't a peer of the host rootfs.):

mount -t tmpfs tmpfs /mnt

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION
└─/mnt tmpfs tmpfs

Now another terminal in the host mount namespace can observe that
the mount indeed hasn't propagated back to into the host mount
namespace. A new mount can now be created on top of the /mnt dentry
with the rootfs mount / as its parent:

mount --bind /opt /mnt

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION
└─/mnt /dev/sda2[/opt] ext4 shared:1

The mount namespace that was created earlier can now observe that
the bind mount created on the host has propagated into it:

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE PROPAGATION
└─/mnt /dev/sda2[/opt] ext4 master:1
└─/mnt tmpfs tmpfs

But instead of having been mounted on top of the tmpfs mount at the
/mnt dentry the /opt mount has been mounted on top of the rootfs
mount at the /mnt dentry. And the tmpfs mount has been remounted on
top of the propagated /opt mount at the /opt dentry. So in other
words, the propagated mount has been mounted beneath the preexisting
mount in that mount namespace.

Mount namespaces make this easy to illustrate but it's also easy to
mount beneath an existing mount in the same mount namespace
(The following example assumes a shared rootfs mount / with peer
group id 1):

mount --bind /opt /opt

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE MNT_ID PARENT_ID PROPAGATION
└─/opt /dev/sda2[/opt] ext4 188 29 shared:1

If another mount is mounted on top of the /opt mount at the /opt
dentry:

mount --bind /tmp /opt

The following clunky mount tree will result:

TARGET SOURCE FSTYPE MNT_ID PARENT_ID PROPAGATION
└─/opt /dev/sda2[/tmp] ext4 405 29 shared:1
└─/opt /dev/sda2[/opt] ext4 188 405 shared:1
└─/opt /dev/sda2[/tmp] ext4 404 188 shared:1

The /tmp mount is mounted beneath the /opt mount and another copy is
mounted on top of the /opt mount. This happens because the rootfs /
and the /opt mount are shared mounts in the same peer group.

When the new /tmp mount is supposed to be mounted at the /opt dentry
then the /tmp mount first propagates to the root mount at the /opt
dentry. But there already is the /opt mount mounted at the /opt
dentry. So the old /opt mount at the /opt dentry will be mounted on
top of the new /tmp mount at the /tmp dentry, i.e. @opt->mnt_parent
is @tmp and @opt->mnt_mountpoint is /tmp (Note that @opt->mnt_root
is /opt which is what shows up as /opt under SOURCE). So again, a
mount will be mounted beneath a preexisting mount.

(Fwiw, a few iterations of mount --bind /opt /opt in a loop on a
shared rootfs is a good example of what could be referred to as
mount explosion.)

The main point is that such mounts allows userspace to umount a top
mount and reveal an underlying mount. So for example, umounting the
tmpfs mount on /mnt that was created in example (1) using mount
namespaces reveals the /opt mount which was mounted beneath it.

In (2) where a mount was mounted beneath the top mount in the same mount
namespace unmounting the top mount would unmount both the top mount and
the mount beneath. In the process the original mount would be remounted
on top of the rootfs mount / at the /opt dentry again.

This again, is a result of mount propagation only this time it's umount
propagation. However, this can be avoided by simply making the parent
mount / of the @opt mount a private or slave mount. Then the top mount
and the original mount can be unmounted to reveal the mount beneath.

These two examples are fairly arcane and are merely added to make it
clear how mount propagation has effects on current and future features.

More common use-cases will just be things like:

mount -t btrfs /dev/sdA /mnt
mount -t xfs /dev/sdB --beneath /mnt
umount /mnt

after which we'll have updated from a btrfs filesystem to a xfs
filesystem without ever revealing the underlying mountpoint.

The crux is that the proposed mechanism already exists and that it is so
powerful as to cover cases where mounts are supposed to be updated with
new versions. Crucially, it offers an important flexibility. Namely that
updates to a system may either be forced or can be delayed and the
umount of the top mount be left to a service if it is a cooperative one.

This adds a new flag to move_mount() that allows to explicitly move a
beneath the top mount adhering to the following semantics:

* Mounts cannot be mounted beneath the rootfs. This restriction
encompasses the rootfs but also chroots via chroot() and pivot_root().
To mount a mount beneath the rootfs or a chroot, pivot_root() can be
used as illustrated above.
* The source mount must be a private mount to force the kernel to
allocate a new, unused peer group id. This isn't a required
restriction but a voluntary one. It avoids repeating a semantical
quirk that already exists today. If bind mounts which already have a
peer group id are inserted into mount trees that have the same peer
group id this can cause a lot of mount propagation events to be
generated (For example, consider running mount --bind /opt /opt in a
loop where the parent mount is a shared mount.).
* Avoid getting rid of the top mount in the kernel. Cooperative services
need to be able to unmount the top mount themselves.
This also avoids a good deal of additional complexity. The umount
would have to be propagated which would be another rather expensive
operation. So namespace_lock() and lock_mount_hash() would potentially
have to be held for a long time for both a mount and umount
propagation. That should be avoided.
* The path to mount beneath must be mounted and attached.
* The top mount and its parent must be in the caller's mount namespace
and the caller must be able to mount in that mount namespace.
* The caller must be able to unmount the top mount to prove that they
could reveal the underlying mount.
* The propagation tree is calculated based on the destination mount's
parent mount and the destination mount's mountpoint on the parent
mount. Of course, if the parent of the destination mount and the
destination mount are shared mounts in the same peer group and the
mountpoint of the new mount to be mounted is a subdir of their
->mnt_root then both will receive a mount of /opt. That's probably
easier to understand with an example. Assuming a standard shared
rootfs /:

mount --bind /opt /opt
mount --bind /tmp /opt

will cause the same mount tree as:

mount --bind /opt /opt
mount --beneath /tmp /opt

because both / and /opt are shared mounts/peers in the same peer
group and the /opt dentry is a subdirectory of both the parent's and
the child's ->mnt_root. If a mount tree like that is created it almost
always is an accident or abuse of mount propagation. Realistically
what most people probably mean in this scenarios is:

mount --bind /opt /opt
mount --make-private /opt
mount --make-shared /opt

This forces the allocation of a new separate peer group for the /opt
mount. Aferwards a mount --bind or mount --beneath actually makes
sense as the / and /opt mount belong to different peer groups. Before
that it's likely just confusion about what the user wanted to achieve.
* Refuse MOVE_MOUNT_BENEATH if:
(1) the @mnt_from has been overmounted in between path resolution and
acquiring @namespace_sem when locking @mnt_to. This avoids the
proliferation of shadow mounts.
(2) if @to_mnt is moved to a different mountpoint while acquiring
@namespace_sem to lock @to_mnt.
(3) if @to_mnt is unmounted while acquiring @namespace_sem to lock
@to_mnt.
(4) if the parent of the target mount propagates to the target mount
at the same mountpoint.
This would mean mounting @mnt_from on @mnt_to->mnt_parent and then
propagating a copy @c of @mnt_from onto @mnt_to. This defeats the
whole purpose of mounting @mnt_from beneath @mnt_to.
(5) if the parent mount @mnt_to->mnt_parent propagates to @mnt_from at
the same mountpoint.
If @mnt_to->mnt_parent propagates to @mnt_from this would mean
propagating a copy @c of @mnt_from on top of @mnt_from. Afterwards
@mnt_from would be mounted on top of @mnt_to->mnt_parent and
@mnt_to would be unmounted from @mnt->mnt_parent and remounted on
@mnt_from. But since @c is already mounted on @mnt_from, @mnt_to
would ultimately be remounted on top of @c. Afterwards, @mnt_from
would be covered by a copy @c of @mnt_from and @c would be covered
by @mnt_from itself. This defeats the whole purpose of mounting
@mnt_from beneath @mnt_to.
Cases (1) to (3) are required as they deal with races that would cause
bugs or unexpected behavior for users. Cases (4) and (5) refuse
semantical quirks that would not be a bug but would cause weird mount
trees to be created. While they can already be created via other means
(mount --bind /opt /opt x n) there's no reason to repeat past mistakes
in new features.

Link: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/systemd-sysext.8.html [1]
Link: https://brauner.io/2023/02/28/mounting-into-mount-namespaces.html [2]
Link: https://github.com/flatcar/sysext-bakery
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unified_Kernel_Support_Phase_1
Link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Unified_Kernel_Support_Phase_2
Link: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/26013

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230202-fs-move-mount-replace-v4-4-98f3d80d7eaa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: use a for loop when locking a mount

Currently, lock_mount() uses a goto to retry the lookup until it
succeeded in acquiring the namespace_lock() preventing the top mount
from being overmounted.

fs: use a for loop when locking a mount

Currently, lock_mount() uses a goto to retry the lookup until it
succeeded in acquiring the namespace_lock() preventing the top mount
from being overmounted. While that's perfectly fine we want to lookup
the mountpoint on the parent of the top mount in later patches. So adapt
the code to make this easier to implement. Also, the for loop is
arguably a little cleaner and makes the code easier to follow. No
functional changes intended.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230202-fs-move-mount-replace-v4-3-98f3d80d7eaa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: properly document __lookup_mnt()

The comment on top of __lookup_mnt() states that it finds the first
mount implying that there could be multiple mounts mounted at the same
dentry with the same p

fs: properly document __lookup_mnt()

The comment on top of __lookup_mnt() states that it finds the first
mount implying that there could be multiple mounts mounted at the same
dentry with the same parent.

On older kernels "shadow mounts" could be created during mount
propagation. So if a mount @m in the destination propagation tree
already had a child mount @p mounted at @mp then any mount @n we
propagated to @m at the same @mp would be appended after the preexisting
mount @p in @mount_hashtable. This was a completely direct way of
creating shadow mounts.

That direct way is gone but there are still subtle ways to create shadow
mounts. For example, when attaching a source mnt @mnt to a shared mount.
The root of the source mnt @mnt might be overmounted by a mount @o after
we finished path lookup but before we acquired the namespace semaphore
to copy the source mount tree @mnt.

After we acquired the namespace lock @mnt is copied including @o
covering it. After we attach @mnt to a shared mount @dest_mnt we end up
propagation it to all it's peer and slaves @d. If @d already has a mount
@n mounted on top of it we tuck @mnt beneath @n. This means, we mount
@mnt at @d and mount @n on @mnt. Now we have both @o and @n mounted on
the same mountpoint at @mnt.

Explain this in the documentation as this is pretty subtle.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230202-fs-move-mount-replace-v4-2-98f3d80d7eaa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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fs: add path_mounted()

Add a small helper to check whether a path refers to the root of the
mount instead of open-coding this everywhere.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.o

fs: add path_mounted()

Add a small helper to check whether a path refers to the root of the
mount instead of open-coding this everywhere.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Message-Id: <20230202-fs-move-mount-replace-v4-1-98f3d80d7eaa@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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build_mount_idmapped(): switch to fdget()

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

fs: drop peer group ids under namespace lock

When cleaning up peer group ids in the failure path we need to make sure
to hold on to the namespace lock. Otherwise another thread might just
turn the m

fs: drop peer group ids under namespace lock

When cleaning up peer group ids in the failure path we need to make sure
to hold on to the namespace lock. Otherwise another thread might just
turn the mount from a shared into a non-shared mount concurrently.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00000000000088694505f8132d77@google.com
Fixes: 2a1867219c7b ("fs: add mount_setattr()")
Reported-by: syzbot+8ac3859139c685c4f597@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.12+
Message-Id: <20230330-vfs-mount_setattr-propagation-fix-v1-1-37548d91533b@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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