From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>,
Andrei Vagin <avagin@google.com>, Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>,
Pavel Tikhomirov <snorcht@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
criu@lists.linux.dev, Linux API <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>,
stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [RFC][CFT] selftest for permission checks in mount propagation changes
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 06:57:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250814055702.GO222315@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250814055142.GN222315@ZenIV>
// link with -lcap, can run both as root and as regular user
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include <sched.h>
#include <sys/capability.h>
#include <sys/mount.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
_Bool drop_caps(void)
{
cap_value_t cap_value[] = { CAP_SYS_ADMIN };
cap_t cap = cap_get_proc();
if (!cap) {
perror("cap_get_proc");
return false;
}
return true;
}
void do_unshare(void)
{
FILE *f;
uid_t uid = geteuid();
gid_t gid = getegid();
unshare(CLONE_NEWNS|CLONE_NEWUSER);
f = fopen("/proc/self/uid_map", "w");
fprintf(f, "0 %d 1", uid);
fclose(f);
f = fopen("/proc/self/setgroups", "w");
fprintf(f, "deny");
fclose(f);
f = fopen("/proc/self/gid_map", "w");
fprintf(f, "0 %d 1", gid);
fclose(f);
mount(NULL, "/", NULL, MS_REC|MS_PRIVATE, NULL);
}
void bind(char *p)
{
mount(p, p, NULL, MS_BIND, NULL);
}
void change_type(char *p, int type)
{
errno = 0;
mount(NULL, p, NULL, type, NULL);
}
void set_group(int fd1, char *p1, int fd2, char *p2)
{
int flags = MOVE_MOUNT_SET_GROUP;
int n;
if (!p1 || !*p1) {
p1 = ""; // be kind to old kernels
flags |= MOVE_MOUNT_F_EMPTY_PATH;
}
if (!p2 || !*p2) {
p2 = ""; // be kind to old kernels
flags |= MOVE_MOUNT_T_EMPTY_PATH;
}
errno = 0;
move_mount(fd1, p1, fd2, p2, flags);
}
_Bool result(int expected)
{
if (expected != errno) {
printf(" failed: %d != %d\n", expected, errno);
return false;
}
printf(" OK\n");
return true;
}
int fd1[2], fd2[2];
void in_child(void)
{
printf("from should be someplace we have permissions for");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "mnt/a", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/private");
result(EPERM);
printf("to should be someplace we have permissions for");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a", AT_FDCWD, "mnt/a/private");
result(EPERM);
printf("change_type: should have permissions for target");
change_type("mnt/locked", MS_PRIVATE);
result(EPERM);
}
void in_parent(void)
{
printf("from should be mounted (pipes are not)");
set_group(fd1[0], NULL, AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/private");
result(EINVAL);
printf("to should be mounted (pipes are not)");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", fd1[0], NULL);
result(EINVAL);
printf("from should be someplace we have permissions for");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "mnt/a", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/private");
if (result(0))
change_type("/mnt/a/private", MS_PRIVATE);
printf("to should be someplace we have permissions for");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt", AT_FDCWD, "mnt/a/private");
if (result(0))
change_type("mnt/a/private", MS_PRIVATE);
printf("from should be mountpoint");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/private");
result(EINVAL);
printf("to should be mountpoint");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/private/b");
result(EINVAL);
printf("to and from should be on the same filesystem");
mount("none", "/mnt/no-locked", "tmpfs", 0, NULL);
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/shared", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/no-locked");
result(EINVAL);
umount("/mnt/no-locked");
printf("from should contain the counterpart of to");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/a/shared", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/no-locked");
result(EINVAL);
printf("from should not have anything locked in counterpart of to");
set_group(AT_FDCWD, "mnt", AT_FDCWD, "/mnt/no-locked");
if (result(0))
change_type("/mnt/no-locked", MS_PRIVATE);
printf("change_type: should have permissions for target");
change_type("mnt/a/private", MS_PRIVATE);
result(0);
printf("change_type: target should be a mountpoint");
change_type("/mnt/a", MS_PRIVATE);
result(EINVAL);
chdir("/mnt/a/private");
umount2("/mnt/a/private", MNT_DETACH);
printf("change_type: target should be mounted");
change_type(".", MS_PRIVATE);
result(EINVAL);
}
int main()
{
char path[40];
pid_t child;
int root_fd;
char c;
if (pipe(fd1) < 0 || pipe(fd2) < 0) {
perror("pipe");
return -1;
}
if (!drop_caps())
return -1;
do_unshare();
root_fd = open("/", O_PATH);
errno = 0;
mount("none", "/mnt", "tmpfs", 0, NULL);
mkdir("/mnt/a", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/a/private", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/a/private/b", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/a/shared", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/a/slave", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/a/shared-slave", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/locked", 0777);
mkdir("/mnt/no-locked", 0777);
bind("/mnt/locked");
child = fork();
if (child < 0) {
perror("fork");
return -1;
} else if (child == 0) {
do_unshare();
change_type("/mnt/", MS_SHARED);
bind("/mnt/a");
bind("/mnt/a/private");
change_type("/mnt/a/private", MS_PRIVATE);
write(fd1[1], &c, 1);
read(fd2[0], &c, 1);
fchdir(root_fd);
in_child();
write(fd1[1], &c, 1);
return 0;
}
read(fd1[0], &c, 1);
sprintf(path, "/proc/%d/root", child);
chdir(path);
change_type("/mnt", MS_SHARED);
bind("/mnt/a/private");
bind("/mnt/a/shared");
bind("/mnt/a/slave");
bind("/mnt/a/slave-shared");
bind("/mnt/no-locked");
change_type("/mnt/a/private", MS_PRIVATE);
change_type("/mnt/a/slave", MS_SLAVE);
change_type("/mnt/a/shared-slave", MS_SLAVE);
change_type("/mnt/a/shared-slave", MS_SHARED);
change_type("/mnt/no-locked", MS_PRIVATE);
in_parent();
fflush(stdout);
write(fd2[1], &c, 1);
read(fd1[0], &c, 1);
return 0;
}
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-14 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CANaxB-xXgW1FEj6ydBT2=cudTbP=fX6x8S53zNkWcw1poL=L2A@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <20250724230052.GW2580412@ZenIV>
2025-07-26 17:12 ` do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Andrei Vagin
2025-07-26 17:53 ` Al Viro
2025-07-26 21:01 ` Andrei Vagin
2025-07-31 2:40 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2025-07-31 7:53 ` Christian Brauner
2025-07-31 8:11 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2025-08-13 18:56 ` Al Viro
2025-08-13 19:09 ` Tycho Andersen
2025-08-13 19:41 ` Al Viro
2025-08-14 4:08 ` Pavel Tikhomirov
2025-08-14 4:42 ` Al Viro
2025-08-14 5:51 ` [PATCH][RFC][CFT] use uniform permission checks for all mount propagation changes Al Viro
2025-08-14 5:57 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-08-14 6:37 ` [RFC][CFT] selftest for permission checks in " Al Viro
2025-08-14 7:07 ` do_change_type(): refuse to operate on unmounted/not ours mounts Pavel Tikhomirov
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