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authorAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2019-05-12 17:09:01 -0400
committerAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>2019-05-25 17:59:58 -0400
commit2527b284defaeadf74829b0b0bd3207ca7f165eb (patch)
tree5995146d7d565f6e01c8dbd84b49eab9f963d4fc /fs/internal.h
parentbb7b6b2bbdb827e68cd506c8f5e3ba13215cccb2 (diff)
downloadlinux-2527b284defaeadf74829b0b0bd3207ca7f165eb.tar.gz
move the capability checks from sget_userns() to legacy_get_tree()
1) all call chains leading to sget_userns() pass through ->mount()
instances.
2) none of ->mount() instances is ever called directly - the only
call site is legacy_get_tree()
3) all remaining ->mount() instances end up calling sget_userns()

IOW, we might as well do the capability checks just before calling
->mount().  As for the arguments passed to mount_capable(),
in case of call chains to sget_userns() going through sget(),
we either don't call mount_capable() at all, or pass current_user_ns()
to it.  The call chains going through mount_pseudo_xattr() don't
call mount_capable() at all (SB_KERNMOUNT in flags on those).

That could've been split into smaller steps (lifting the checks
into sget(), then callers of sget(), then all the way to the
entries of every ->mount() out there, then to the sole caller),
but that would be too much churn for little benefit...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/internal.h')
-rw-r--r--fs/internal.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/internal.h b/fs/internal.h
index 1ac2b8f6c621..65db901420af 100644
--- a/fs/internal.h
+++ b/fs/internal.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ struct path;
 struct mount;
 struct shrink_control;
 struct fs_context;
+struct user_namespace;
 
 /*
  * block_dev.c
@@ -113,6 +114,7 @@ extern struct file *alloc_empty_file_noaccount(int, const struct cred *);
 extern int reconfigure_super(struct fs_context *);
 extern bool trylock_super(struct super_block *sb);
 extern struct super_block *user_get_super(dev_t);
+extern bool mount_capable(struct file_system_type *, struct user_namespace *);
 
 /*
  * open.c