fs: Better permission checking for submounts

To support unprivileged users mounting filesystems two permission
checks have to be performed: a test to see if the user allowed to
create a mount in the mount namespace, and a test to see if
the user is allowed to access the specified filesystem.

The automount case is special in that mounting the original filesystem
grants permission to mount the sub-filesystems, to any user who
happens to stumble across the their mountpoint and satisfies the
ordinary filesystem permission checks.

Attempting to handle the automount case by using override_creds
almost works.  It preserves the idea that permission to mount
the original filesystem is permission to mount the sub-filesystem.
Unfortunately using override_creds messes up the filesystems
ordinary permission checks.

Solve this by being explicit that a mount is a submount by introducing
vfs_submount, and using it where appropriate.

vfs_submount uses a new mount internal mount flags MS_SUBMOUNT, to let
sget and friends know that a mount is a submount so they can take appropriate
action.

sget and sget_userns are modified to not perform any permission checks
on submounts.

follow_automount is modified to stop using override_creds as that
has proven problemantic.

do_mount is modified to always remove the new MS_SUBMOUNT flag so
that we know userspace will never by able to specify it.

autofs4 is modified to stop using current_real_cred that was put in
there to handle the previous version of submount permission checking.

cifs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to vfs_submount.

debugfs is modified to pass the mountpoint all of the way down to
trace_automount by adding a new parameter.  To make this change easier
a new typedef debugfs_automount_t is introduced to capture the type of
the debugfs automount function.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 069d5ac9ae0d ("autofs:  Fix automounts by using current_real_cred()->uid")
Fixes: aeaa4a79ff6a ("fs: Call d_automount with the filesystems creds")
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/namespace.c b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
index 5551e8e..e49d831 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/namespace.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *nfs_do_clone_mount(struct nfs_server *server,
 					   const char *devname,
 					   struct nfs_clone_mount *mountdata)
 {
-	return vfs_kern_mount(&nfs_xdev_fs_type, 0, devname, mountdata);
+	return vfs_submount(mountdata->dentry, &nfs_xdev_fs_type, devname, mountdata);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c
index d211049..d8b040b 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/nfs4namespace.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static struct vfsmount *try_location(struct nfs_clone_mount *mountdata,
 				mountdata->hostname,
 				mountdata->mnt_path);
 
-		mnt = vfs_kern_mount(&nfs4_referral_fs_type, 0, page, mountdata);
+		mnt = vfs_submount(mountdata->dentry, &nfs4_referral_fs_type, page, mountdata);
 		if (!IS_ERR(mnt))
 			break;
 	}