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>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
index 1709ed0..4185844 100644
--- a/fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/super.c
@@ -469,7 +469,7 @@ struct super_block *sget_userns(struct file_system_type *type,
 	struct super_block *old;
 	int err;
 
-	if (!(flags & MS_KERNMOUNT) &&
+	if (!(flags & (MS_KERNMOUNT|MS_SUBMOUNT)) &&
 	    !(type->fs_flags & FS_USERNS_MOUNT) &&
 	    !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ retry:
 	}
 	if (!s) {
 		spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
-		s = alloc_super(type, flags, user_ns);
+		s = alloc_super(type, (flags & ~MS_SUBMOUNT), user_ns);
 		if (!s)
 			return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
 		goto retry;
@@ -540,8 +540,15 @@ struct super_block *sget(struct file_system_type *type,
 {
 	struct user_namespace *user_ns = current_user_ns();
 
+	/* We don't yet pass the user namespace of the parent
+	 * mount through to here so always use &init_user_ns
+	 * until that changes.
+	 */
+	if (flags & MS_SUBMOUNT)
+		user_ns = &init_user_ns;
+
 	/* Ensure the requestor has permissions over the target filesystem */
-	if (!(flags & MS_KERNMOUNT) && !ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
+	if (!(flags & (MS_KERNMOUNT|MS_SUBMOUNT)) && !ns_capable(user_ns, CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EPERM);
 
 	return sget_userns(type, test, set, flags, user_ns, data);