Re: [PATCH] debugfs: fix mount options not being applied

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2025 at 02:30:04PM +0000, Charalampos Mitrodimas wrote:
> Mount options (uid, gid, mode) are silently ignored when debugfs is
> mounted. This is a regression introduced during the conversion to the
> new mount API.
> 
> When the mount API conversion was done, the line that sets
> sb->s_fs_info to the parsed options was removed. This causes
> debugfs_apply_options() to operate on a NULL pointer.
> 
> As an example, with the bug the "mode" mount option is ignored:
> 
>   $ mount -o mode=0666 -t debugfs debugfs /tmp/debugfs_test
>   $ mount | grep debugfs_test
>   debugfs on /tmp/debugfs_test type debugfs (rw,relatime)
>   $ ls -ld /tmp/debugfs_test
>   drwx------ 25 root root 0 Aug  4 14:16 /tmp/debugfs_test
> 
> With the fix applied, it works as expected:
> 
>   $ mount -o mode=0666 -t debugfs debugfs /tmp/debugfs_test
>   $ mount | grep debugfs_test
>   debugfs on /tmp/debugfs_test type debugfs (rw,relatime,mode=666)
>   $ ls -ld /tmp/debugfs_test
>   drw-rw-rw- 37 root root 0 Aug  2 17:28 /tmp/debugfs_test
> 
> Fix this by restoring the missing sb->s_fs_info assignment in
> debugfs_fill_super() and by calling debugfs_reconfigure() in
> debugfs_get_tree() to apply options when reusing an existing
> superblock.
> 
> Fixes: a20971c18752 ("vfs: Convert debugfs to use the new mount API")
> Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220406
> Signed-off-by: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
> ---
>  fs/debugfs/inode.c | 8 +++++++-
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> index a0357b0cf362d8ac47ff810e162402d6a8ae2cb9..ffe6402c77126b2a23beaa85160dfe578f59599c 100644
> --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c
> @@ -275,6 +275,7 @@ static int debugfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
>  	set_default_d_op(sb, &debugfs_dops);
>  	sb->s_d_flags |= DCACHE_DONTCACHE;
>  
> +	sb->s_fs_info = fc->s_fs_info;
>  	debugfs_apply_options(sb);
>  
>  	return 0;
> @@ -282,10 +283,15 @@ static int debugfs_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
>  
>  static int debugfs_get_tree(struct fs_context *fc)
>  {
> +	int err;
> +
>  	if (!(debugfs_allow & DEBUGFS_ALLOW_API))
>  		return -EPERM;
>  
> -	return get_tree_single(fc, debugfs_fill_super);
> +	err = get_tree_single(fc, debugfs_fill_super);
> +	if (!err)
> +		err = debugfs_reconfigure(fc);
> +	return err;
>  }
>  
>  static void debugfs_free_fc(struct fs_context *fc)
> 
> ---
> base-commit: 3c4a063b1f8ab71352df1421d9668521acb63cd9
> change-id: 20250804-debugfs-mount-opts-2a68d7741f05
> 
> Best regards,
> -- 
> Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
> 

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