Patch "sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints." has been added to the 4.0-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     sysctl-allow-creating-permanently-empty-directories-that-serve-as-mountpoints.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From f9bd6733d3f11e24f3949becf277507d422ee1eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 22:09:14 -0500
Subject: sysctl: Allow creating permanently empty directories that serve as mountpoints.

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

commit f9bd6733d3f11e24f3949becf277507d422ee1eb upstream.

Add a magic sysctl table sysctl_mount_point that when used to
create a directory forces that directory to be permanently empty.

Update the code to use make_empty_dir_inode when accessing permanently
empty directories.

Update the code to not allow adding to permanently empty directories.

Update /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc to be a permanently empty directory.

Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c  |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/linux/sysctl.h |    3 +++
 kernel/sysctl.c        |    8 +-------
 3 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
+++ b/fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c
@@ -19,6 +19,28 @@ static const struct inode_operations pro
 static const struct file_operations proc_sys_dir_file_operations;
 static const struct inode_operations proc_sys_dir_operations;
 
+/* Support for permanently empty directories */
+
+struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[] = {
+	{ }
+};
+
+static bool is_empty_dir(struct ctl_table_header *head)
+{
+	return head->ctl_table[0].child == sysctl_mount_point;
+}
+
+static void set_empty_dir(struct ctl_dir *dir)
+{
+	dir->header.ctl_table[0].child = sysctl_mount_point;
+}
+
+static void clear_empty_dir(struct ctl_dir *dir)
+
+{
+	dir->header.ctl_table[0].child = NULL;
+}
+
 void proc_sys_poll_notify(struct ctl_table_poll *poll)
 {
 	if (!poll)
@@ -187,6 +209,17 @@ static int insert_header(struct ctl_dir
 	struct ctl_table *entry;
 	int err;
 
+	/* Is this a permanently empty directory? */
+	if (is_empty_dir(&dir->header))
+		return -EROFS;
+
+	/* Am I creating a permanently empty directory? */
+	if (header->ctl_table == sysctl_mount_point) {
+		if (!RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&dir->root))
+			return -EINVAL;
+		set_empty_dir(dir);
+	}
+
 	dir->header.nreg++;
 	header->parent = dir;
 	err = insert_links(header);
@@ -202,6 +235,8 @@ fail:
 	erase_header(header);
 	put_links(header);
 fail_links:
+	if (header->ctl_table == sysctl_mount_point)
+		clear_empty_dir(dir);
 	header->parent = NULL;
 	drop_sysctl_table(&dir->header);
 	return err;
@@ -419,6 +454,8 @@ static struct inode *proc_sys_make_inode
 		inode->i_mode |= S_IFDIR;
 		inode->i_op = &proc_sys_dir_operations;
 		inode->i_fop = &proc_sys_dir_file_operations;
+		if (is_empty_dir(head))
+			make_empty_dir_inode(inode);
 	}
 out:
 	return inode;
--- a/include/linux/sysctl.h
+++ b/include/linux/sysctl.h
@@ -188,6 +188,9 @@ struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl
 void unregister_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table_header * table);
 
 extern int sysctl_init(void);
+
+extern struct ctl_table sysctl_mount_point[];
+
 #else /* CONFIG_SYSCTL */
 static inline struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(struct ctl_table * table)
 {
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -1510,12 +1510,6 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
 	{ }
 };
 
-#if defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) || defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC_MODULE)
-static struct ctl_table binfmt_misc_table[] = {
-	{ }
-};
-#endif
-
 static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "inode-nr",
@@ -1669,7 +1663,7 @@ static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
 	{
 		.procname	= "binfmt_misc",
 		.mode		= 0555,
-		.child		= binfmt_misc_table,
+		.child		= sysctl_mount_point,
 	},
 #endif
 	{


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xmission.com are

queue-4.0/sysfs-create-mountpoints-with-sysfs_create_mount_point.patch
queue-4.0/sysfs-add-support-for-permanently-empty-directories-to-serve-as-mount-points.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-update-fs_fully_visible-to-test-for-permanently-empty-directories.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-refactor-the-logic-for-mounting-sysfs-and-proc-in-a-user-namespace.patch
queue-4.0/mnt-modify-fs_fully_visible-to-deal-with-locked-ro-nodev-and-atime.patch
queue-4.0/fs-add-helper-functions-for-permanently-empty-directories.patch
queue-4.0/sysctl-allow-creating-permanently-empty-directories-that-serve-as-mountpoints.patch
queue-4.0/kernfs-add-support-for-always-empty-directories.patch
queue-4.0/proc-allow-creating-permanently-empty-directories-that-serve-as-mount-points.patch