open_tree(..., OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE) and
fsmount(..., FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE, ...) currently work on non-directories,
like regular files. That's bad for two reasons:
- It ends up mounting a regular file over the inherited namespace root,
which is a directory; mounting a non-directory over a directory is
normally explicitly forbidden, see for example do_move_mount()
- It causes setns() on the new namespace to set the cwd to a regular
file, which the rest of VFS does not expect
Fix it by restricting create_new_namespace() (which is used by both of
these flags) to directories.
Leave the behavior for OPEN_TREE_CLONE as-is, that seems unproblematic.
Fixes: 9b8a0ba68246 ("mount: add OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE")
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
unsigned int copy_flags = 0;
bool locked = false, recurse = flags & MOUNT_COPY_RECURSIVE;
+ if (unlikely(!d_can_lookup(path->dentry)))
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOTDIR);
+
if (user_ns != ns->user_ns)
copy_flags |= CL_SLAVE;