From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
Demi Marie Obenour <demi@invisiblethingslab.com>,
cve@kernel.org, gnoack@google.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
kent.overstreet@linux.dev, linux-bcachefs@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, mic@digikod.net,
Demi Marie Obenour <demiobenour@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unprivileged filesystem mounts
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:36:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250311173600.GR2023217@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250311-desillusionieren-goldfisch-0c2ce3194e68@brauner>
On Tue, Mar 11, 2025 at 12:01:48PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> The case where arbitrary devices stuck into a laptop (e.g., USB sticks)
> are mounted isn't solved by making a filesystem mountable unprivileged.
> The mounted device cannot show up in the global mount namespace
> somewhere since the user doesn't own the initial mount+user namespace.
> So it's pointless. In other words, there's filesystem level checks and
> mount namespace based checks. Circumventing that restriction means that
> any user can just mount the device at any location in the global mount
> namespace and therefore simply overmount other stuff.
Note that "untrusted contents" is not the worst thing you can run into -
it can be content changing behind your back. I seriously doubt that
anyone fuzzes for that kind of crap (and no, it's not an invitation to
start). I seriously doubt that there's any local filesystem that would
be resilent to that...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-11 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2025030611-CVE-2025-21830-da64@gregkh>
[not found] ` <20250310.ooshu9Cha2oo@digikod.net>
[not found] ` <2025031034-savanna-debit-eb8e@gregkh>
2025-03-10 23:42 ` CVE-2025-21830: landlock: Handle weird files Dave Chinner
2025-03-11 2:09 ` Kent Overstreet
2025-03-11 4:24 ` Dave Chinner
2025-03-11 10:50 ` Kent Overstreet
2025-03-11 2:19 ` Unprivileged filesystem mounts Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-11 5:57 ` Dave Chinner
2025-03-11 11:01 ` Christian Brauner
2025-03-11 17:36 ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-03-11 17:43 ` Kent Overstreet
2025-03-11 17:54 ` Eric Biggers
2025-03-11 20:10 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-18 5:21 ` Dave Chinner
2025-03-19 14:55 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-19 16:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-19 17:32 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-19 20:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-18 22:11 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-19 17:44 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-19 21:25 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-20 6:26 ` Demi Marie Obenour
2025-03-20 16:00 ` Theodore Ts'o
2025-03-11 6:53 ` CVE-2025-21830: landlock: Handle weird files Greg Kroah-Hartman
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