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>

3 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 014cc564d1c4..233006be30aa 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -97,9 +97,10 @@ struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent);
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_symlink(const char *name, struct dentry *parent,
                                       const char *dest);
 
+typedef struct vfsmount *(*debugfs_automount_t)(struct dentry *, void *);
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_automount(const char *name,
                                         struct dentry *parent,
-                                        struct vfsmount *(*f)(void *),
+                                        debugfs_automount_t f,
                                         void *data);
 
 void debugfs_remove(struct dentry *dentry);
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index c6f55158d5e5..8e0352af06b7 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ struct file_system_type;
 extern struct vfsmount *vfs_kern_mount(struct file_system_type *type,
                                       int flags, const char *name,
                                       void *data);
+extern struct vfsmount *vfs_submount(const struct dentry *mountpoint,
+                                     struct file_system_type *type,
+                                     const char *name, void *data);
 
 extern void mnt_set_expiry(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct list_head *expiry_list);
 extern void mark_mounts_for_expiry(struct list_head *mounts);
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
index 36da93fbf188..048a85e9f017 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/fs.h
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ struct inodes_stat_t {
 #define MS_LAZYTIME     (1<<25) /* Update the on-disk [acm]times lazily */
 
 /* These sb flags are internal to the kernel */
+#define MS_SUBMOUNT     (1<<26)
 #define MS_NOREMOTELOCK (1<<27)
 #define MS_NOSEC        (1<<28)
 #define MS_BORN         (1<<29)