[PATCH 4.9 41/43] locks: print a warning when mount fails due to lack of "mand" support

Sasha Levin
2021-08-24T17:39:33Z

From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>

[ Upstream commit df2474a22c42ce419b67067c52d71da06c385501 ]

Since 9e8925b67a ("locks: Allow disabling mandatory locking at compile
time"), attempts to mount filesystems with "-o mand" will fail.
Unfortunately, there is no other indiciation of the reason for the
failure.

Change how the function is defined for better readability. When
CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING is disabled, printk a warning when
someone attempts to mount with -o mand.

Also, add a blurb to the mandatory-locking.txt file to explain about
the "mand" option, and the behavior one should expect when it is
disabled.

Reported-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt | 10 ++++++++++
fs/namespace.c | 11 ++++++++---
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt
index 0979d1d2ca8b..a251ca33164a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/mandatory-locking.txt
@@ -169,3 +169,13 @@ havoc if they lock crucial files. The way around it is to change the file
permissions (remove the setgid bit) before trying to read or write to it.
Of course, that might be a bit tricky if the system is hung :-(

+7. The "mand" mount option
+--------------------------
+Mandatory locking is disabled on all filesystems by default, and must be
+administratively enabled by mounting with "-o mand". That mount option
+is only allowed if the mounting task has the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability.
+
+Since kernel v4.5, it is possible to disable mandatory locking
+altogether by setting CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING to "n". A kernel
+with this disabled will reject attempts to mount filesystems with the
+"mand" mount option with the error status EPERM.
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 9f2390c89b63..68457fa2f981 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1669,13 +1669,18 @@ static inline bool may_mount(void)
return ns_capable(current->nsproxy->mnt_ns->user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
}

+#ifdef CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
static inline bool may_mandlock(void)
{
-#ifndef CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING
- return false;
-#endif
return capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
}
+#else
+static inline bool may_mandlock(void)
+{
+ pr_warn("VFS: \"mand\" mount option not supported");
+ return false;
+}
+#endif

/*
* Now umount can handle mount points as well as block devices.
--
2.30.2