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From: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] move_mount(2): still breakage around new mount detection
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2025 06:27:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250429052739.GQ2023217@ZenIV> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250429051054.GP2023217@ZenIV>

On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 06:10:54AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 05:03:58AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 07:53:18PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > > FWIW, I've a series of cleanups falling out of audit of struct mount
> > > handling; it's still growing, but I'll post the stable parts for review
> > > tonight or tomorrow...
> > 
> > _Another_ fun one, this time around do_umount().
> 
> ... and more, from 620c266f3949 "fhandle: relax open_by_handle_at()
> permission checks" - just what is protecting has_locked_children()
> use there?  We are, after all, iterating through ->mnt_mounts -
> with no locks whatsoever.  Not to mention the fun question regarding
> the result (including the bits sensitive to is_mounted()) remaining
> valid by the time you get through exportfs_decode_fh_raw() (and no,
> you can't hold any namespace_sem over it - no IO allowed under
> that, so we'll need to recheck after that point)...

Anyway, I've pushed the obvious fixes to viro/vfs.git#fixes for now;
there's more coming (mnt_flags misuses, basically), but that'll have
to wait until I get some sleep...

  reply	other threads:[~2025-04-29  5:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-04-28  6:30 [RFC] move_mount(2): still breakage around new mount detection Al Viro
2025-04-28  7:03 ` Al Viro
2025-04-28  8:50   ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-28 18:53     ` Al Viro
2025-04-29  4:03       ` Al Viro
2025-04-29  5:10         ` Al Viro
2025-04-29  5:27           ` Al Viro [this message]
2025-04-29  8:21           ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-05  5:08           ` Al Viro
2025-05-05 14:20             ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-29  7:56         ` Christian Brauner
2025-04-29 12:27           ` Al Viro
2025-04-29  7:52       ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-08  5:56       ` more breakage there (was Re: [RFC] move_mount(2): still breakage around new mount detection) Al Viro
2025-05-08 19:59         ` Al Viro
2025-05-08 20:00           ` [PATCH 1/4] __legitimize_mnt(): check for MNT_SYNC_UMOUNT should be under mount_lock Al Viro
2025-05-09 11:02             ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-08 20:01           ` [PATCH 2/4] do_umount(): add missing barrier before refcount checks in sync case Al Viro
2025-05-09 11:02             ` Christian Brauner
2025-05-08 20:02           ` [PATCH 3/4] do_move_mount(): don't leak MNTNS_PROPAGATING on failures Al Viro
2025-05-08 20:03             ` reproducer for "do_move_mount(): don't leak MNTNS_PROPAGATING on failures" Al Viro
2025-05-09 11:02             ` [PATCH 3/4] do_move_mount(): don't leak MNTNS_PROPAGATING on failures Christian Brauner
2025-05-13 11:03             ` Lai, Yi
2025-05-13 12:08               ` Al Viro
2025-05-13 14:33                 ` Lai, Yi
2025-05-08 20:02           ` [PATCH 4/4] fix IS_MNT_PROPAGATING uses Al Viro
2025-05-08 20:04             ` reproducer for "fix IS_MNT_PROPAGATING uses" Al Viro
2025-05-09 11:01             ` [PATCH 4/4] fix IS_MNT_PROPAGATING uses Christian Brauner
2025-05-09 11:06         ` more breakage there (was Re: [RFC] move_mount(2): still breakage around new mount detection) Christian Brauner

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