From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm-aS9lmoZGLiVWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH review 2/6] dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:26:34 -0500 Message-ID: <87pp349i7p.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> References: <871tncuaf6.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87mw5xq7lt.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <87a8yqou41.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <874moq9oyb.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> <871tfkawu9.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrey Vagin , Miklos Szeredi , Richard Weinberger , Andy Lutomirski , "J. Bruce Fields" , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Jann Horn , Linus Torvalds , Willy Tarreau To: Linux Containers Return-path: In-Reply-To: <871tfkawu9.fsf_-_-JOvCrm2gF+uungPnsOpG7nhyD016LWXt@public.gmane.org> (Eric W. Biederman's message of "Mon, 03 Aug 2015 16:25:18 -0500") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org Errors-To: containers-bounces-cunTk1MwBs9QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org A rename can result in a dentry that by walking up d_parent will never reach it's mnt_root. For lack of a better term I call this an escaped path. prepend_path is called by four different functions __d_path, d_absolute_path, d_path, and getcwd. __d_path only wants to see paths are connected to the root it passes in. So __d_path needs prepend_path to return an error. d_absolute_path similarly wants to see paths that are connected to some root. Escaped paths are not connected to any mnt_root so d_absolute_path needs prepend_path to return an error greater than 1. So escaped paths will be treated like paths on lazily unmounted mounts. getcwd needs to prepend "(unreachable)" so getcwd also needs prepend_path to return an error. d_path is the interesting hold out. d_path just wants to print something, and does not care about the weird cases. Which raises the question what should be printed? Given that / should result in -ENOENT I believe it is desirable for escaped paths to be printed as empty paths. As there are not really any meaninful path components when considered from the perspective of a mount tree. So tweak prepend_path to return an empty path with an new error code of 3 when it encounters an escaped path. Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- fs/dcache.c | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/dcache.c b/fs/dcache.c index 5c8ea15e73a5..d7fe995dd32d 100644 --- a/fs/dcache.c +++ b/fs/dcache.c @@ -2926,6 +2926,13 @@ restart: if (dentry == vfsmnt->mnt_root || IS_ROOT(dentry)) { struct mount *parent = ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt_parent); + /* Escaped? */ + if (dentry != vfsmnt->mnt_root) { + bptr = *buffer; + blen = *buflen; + error = 3; + break; + } /* Global root? */ if (mnt != parent) { dentry = ACCESS_ONCE(mnt->mnt_mountpoint); -- 2.2.1