Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 00/19] Support fuse mounts in user namespaces

Eric W. Biederman
2016-01-25T20:01:22Z

Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 12:03:39PM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
>> These patches implement support for mounting filesystems in user
>> namespaces using fuse. They are based on the patches in the for-testing
>> branch of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace.git,
>> but I've rebased them onto 4.4-rc3. I've pushed all of this to:
>>
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sforshee/linux.git fuse-userns
>>
>> The patches are organized into three high-level groups.
>>
>> Patches 1-6 are related to security, adding restrictions for
>> unprivileged mounts and updating the LSMs as needed. Patches 1-2
>> (checking inode permissions for block device mounts) may not be strictly
>> necessary for fuseblk mounts since fuse doesn't do any IO on the block
>> device in the kernel, but it still seems like a good idea to fail the
>> mount if the user doesn't have the required permissions for the inode
>> (though this is a bit misleading with fuse since the mounts are done via
>> a suid-root helper).
>>
>> Patches 7-14 update most of the vfs to translate ids correctly and deal
>> with inodes which may have invalid user/group ids. I've omitted patches
>> for anything not used by fuse - quota, fs freezing, some helper
>> functions, etc. - but if these are wanted for the sake of completeness I
>> can include them.
>>
>> Patches 15-18 update fuse to deal with mounts from non-init pid and user
>> namespaces and enable mounting from user namespaces.
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>> - Drop patch for FIBMAP.
>> - Use current_in_userns in fuse_allow_current_process.
>> - Remove checks for uid/gid validity in fuse. Intead, ids from the
>> backing store which do not map into s_user_ns will result in invalid
>> ids in the vfs inode. Checks in the vfs will prevent unmappable ids
>> from being passed in from above.
>> - Update a couple of commit messages to provide more detail about
>> changes.
>
> Now that the merge window is over, I'm wondering whether it might be
> possible to get some feedback on these patches this cycle?

Definitely. Apologies for not giving you much feedback earlier.

I had been hoping this was the kind of thing I could just double check
to be certain you weren't doing anything silly and just apply. After my
last round of looking at this I realized that for me to be comfortable
with these patches I will have to give them very close scrutiny, and
check every detail.

Unfortunatly last cycle I had failed to budget enough time to give these
patches the close scrutiny they need.

From a high level I am still very much in favor of this approach and
at least getting as far as safe unprivileged fuse mounts.

I have one or two little things to look at and then I hope to be going
through your patches one by one in detail.

Eric