namespace: don't try to remount superblocks

We can't remount the underlying superblocks, if we are inside a user
namespace and running Linux <= 4.17.  We can only change the per-mount
flags (MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND).

This type of mount() call can only change the per-mount flags, so we
don't have to worry about passing the right string options now.

Fixes #9914 ("Since 1beab8b was merged, systemd has been failing to start
systemd-resolved inside unprivileged containers" ... "Failed to re-mount
'/run/systemd/unit-root/dev' read-only: Operation not permitted").

> It's basically my fault :-). I pointed out we could remount read-only
> without MS_BIND when reviewing the PR that added TemporaryFilesystem=,
> and poettering suggested to change PrivateDevices= at the same time.
> I think it's safe to change back, and I don't expect anyone will notice
> a difference in behaviour.
>
> It just surprised me to realize that
> `TemporaryFilesystem=/tmp:size=10M,ro,nosuid` would not apply `ro` to the
> superblock (underlying filesystem), like mount -osize=10M,ro,nosuid does.
> Maybe a comment could note the kernel version (v4.18), that lets you
> remount without MS_BIND inside a user namespace.

This makes the code longer and I guess this function is still ugly, sorry.
One obstacle to cleaning it up is the interaction between
`PrivateDevices=yes` and `ReadOnlyPaths=/dev`.  I've added a test for the
existing behaviour, which I think is now the correct behaviour.

diff --git a/src/core/namespace.c b/src/core/namespace.c
index c164bc5793aa921e349380bc9b43a96aadcfb7d1..c3bbb406800f04a2c3019de3b0054d3ecf4be1f5 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core/namespace.c
+++ b/src/core/namespace.c
@@ -1026,6 +1026,15 @@ static int apply_mount(
         return 0;
 }
 
+/* Change the per-mount readonly flag on an existing mount */
+static int remount_bind_readonly(const char *path, unsigned long orig_flags) {
+        int r;
+
+        r = mount(NULL, path, NULL, MS_REMOUNT | MS_BIND | MS_RDONLY | orig_flags, NULL);
+
+        return r < 0 ? -errno : 0;
+}
+
 static int make_read_only(const MountEntry *m, char **blacklist, FILE *proc_self_mountinfo) {
         bool submounts = false;
         int r = 0;
@@ -1035,17 +1044,15 @@ static int make_read_only(const MountEntry *m, char **blacklist, FILE *proc_self
 
         if (mount_entry_read_only(m)) {
                 if (IN_SET(m->mode, EMPTY_DIR, TMPFS)) {
-                        /* Make superblock readonly */
-                        if (mount(NULL, mount_entry_path(m), NULL, MS_REMOUNT | MS_RDONLY | m->flags, mount_entry_options(m)) < 0)
-                                r = -errno;
+                        r = remount_bind_readonly(mount_entry_path(m), m->flags);
                 } else {
                         submounts = true;
                         r = bind_remount_recursive_with_mountinfo(mount_entry_path(m), true, blacklist, proc_self_mountinfo);
                 }
         } else if (m->mode == PRIVATE_DEV) {
-                /* Superblock can be readonly but the submounts can't */
-                if (mount(NULL, mount_entry_path(m), NULL, MS_REMOUNT|DEV_MOUNT_OPTIONS|MS_RDONLY, NULL) < 0)
-                        r = -errno;
+                /* Set /dev readonly, but not submounts like /dev/shm. Also, we only set the per-mount read-only flag.
+                 * We can't set it on the superblock, if we are inside a user namespace and running Linux <= 4.17. */
+                r = remount_bind_readonly(mount_entry_path(m), DEV_MOUNT_OPTIONS);
         } else
                 return 0;
 

diff --git a/test/test-execute/exec-readonlypaths.service b/test/test-execute/exec-readonlypaths.service
index 6866fdc7002387395eb0f517c5944bc198ca453b..a0ca68f67da0d37a99767e418216a8fe50f61dc2 100644 (file)
--- a/test/test-execute/exec-readonlypaths.service
+++ b/test/test-execute/exec-readonlypaths.service
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 Description=Test for ReadOnlyPaths=
 
 [Service]
-ReadOnlyPaths=/etc -/i-dont-exist /usr
-ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test ! -w /etc && test ! -w /usr && test ! -e /i-dont-exist && test -w /var'
+ReadOnlyPaths=/usr /etc /sys /dev -/i-dont-exist
+PrivateDevices=yes
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test ! -w /usr && test ! -w /etc && test ! -w /sys && test ! -w /sys/fs/cgroup'
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test ! -w /dev && test ! -w /dev/shm && test ! -e /i-dont-exist && test -w /var'
 Type=oneshot

diff --git a/test/test-execute/exec-temporaryfilesystem-options.service b/test/test-execute/exec-temporaryfilesystem-options.service
index b7a5baf93ade5b37d2d452a0ea286d74584f7bab..371e5674b1c0957ab83f35ec624c2fe9cd312f94 100644 (file)
--- a/test/test-execute/exec-temporaryfilesystem-options.service
+++ b/test/test-execute/exec-temporaryfilesystem-options.service
@@ -5,11 +5,10 @@ Description=Test for TemporaryFileSystem with mount options
 Type=oneshot
 
 # The mount options default to "mode=0755,nodev,strictatime".
-# Let's override some of them, and test the behaviour of "ro".
+# Let's override some of them, and test "ro".
 TemporaryFileSystem=/var:ro,mode=0700,nostrictatime
 
 # Check /proc/self/mountinfo
-ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test "$$(awk \'$$5 == "/var" && $$11 !~ /(^|,)ro(,|$$)/ { print $$6 }\' /proc/self/mountinfo)" = ""'
 ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test "$$(awk \'$$5 == "/var" && $$11 !~ /(^|,)mode=700(,|$$)/ { print $$6 }\' /proc/self/mountinfo)" = ""'
 
 ExecStart=/bin/sh -x -c 'test "$$(awk \'$$5 == "/var" && $$6 !~ /(^|,)ro(,|$$)/ { print $$6 }\' /proc/self/mountinfo)" = ""'