[PATCH] Fix regression due to "fs: move binfmt_misc sysctl to its own file"

Domenico Andreoli
2022-02-07T13:52:46Z

Commit 3ba442d5331f did not go unnoticed, binfmt-support stopped to
work on my Debian system since v5.17-rc2 (did not check with -rc1).

The existance of /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is a precondition for
attempting to mount the binfmt_misc fs, which in turn triggers the
autoload of the binfmt_misc module. Without it, no module is loaded
and no binfmt is available at boot.

Building as built-in or manually loading the module and mounting the fs
works fine, it's therefore only a matter of interaction with user-space.

I could try to improve the Debian systemd configuration but I can't
say anything about the other distributions.

In the meanwhile this patch restores a working system right after boot.

Fixes: 3ba442d5331f ("fs: move binfmt_misc sysctl to its own file")
Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli@linux.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Antti Palosaari <crope@iki.fi>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Iurii Zaikin <yzaikin@google.com>
Cc: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Lukas Middendorf <kernel@tuxforce.de>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark@fasheh.com>
Cc: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Cc: Qing Wang <wangqing@vivo.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com>

---
fs/binfmt_misc.c | 6 +-----
kernel/sysctl.c | 13 +++++++++++++
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Index: b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
===================================================================
--- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c
@@ -817,20 +817,16 @@ static struct file_system_type bm_fs_typ
};
MODULE_ALIAS_FS("binfmt_misc");

-static struct ctl_table_header *binfmt_misc_header;
-
static int __init init_misc_binfmt(void)
{
int err = register_filesystem(&bm_fs_type);
if (!err)
insert_binfmt(&misc_format);
- binfmt_misc_header = register_sysctl_mount_point("fs/binfmt_misc");
- return 0;
+ return err;
}

static void __exit exit_misc_binfmt(void)
{
- unregister_sysctl_table(binfmt_misc_header);
unregister_binfmt(&misc_format);
unregister_filesystem(&bm_fs_type);
}
Index: b/kernel/sysctl.c
===================================================================
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -2806,6 +2806,17 @@ static struct ctl_table vm_table[] = {
{ }
};

+static struct ctl_table fs_table[] = {
+#if defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC) || defined(CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC_MODULE)
+ {
+ .procname = "binfmt_misc",
+ .mode = 0555,
+ .child = sysctl_mount_point,
+ },
+#endif
+ { }
+};
+
static struct ctl_table debug_table[] = {
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL_EXCEPTION_TRACE
{
@@ -2825,6 +2836,7 @@ static struct ctl_table dev_table[] = {

DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE(kernel, kern_table);
DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE(vm, vm_table);
+DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE(fs, fs_table);
DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE(debug, debug_table);
DECLARE_SYSCTL_BASE(dev, dev_table);

@@ -2832,6 +2844,7 @@ int __init sysctl_init_bases(void)
{
register_sysctl_base(kernel);
register_sysctl_base(vm);
+ register_sysctl_base(fs);
register_sysctl_base(debug);
register_sysctl_base(dev);