Changing mount propagation through the legacy mount API changes
user-visible mountinfo contents, including the shared: and master:
optional fields.
The mount_setattr() path already touches the mount namespace after
change_mnt_propagation(), so pollers of /proc/<pid>/mountinfo are woken
when the namespace event changes.
The legacy mount --make-* path also changes propagation through
change_mnt_propagation(), and MOVE_MOUNT_SET_GROUP updates the
propagation relationship of the target mount. Both paths currently
return without touching the affected mount namespace.
As a result, userspace polling /proc/<pid>/mountinfo can miss these
propagation-only changes even though mountinfo has changed.
A simple reproducer that polls /proc/self/mountinfo while changing
propagation shows the inconsistency.
Before this change:
legacy MS_SHARED: poll ret=0 revents=0x0
mount_setattr MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa
After this change:
legacy MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa
mount_setattr MS_SHARED: poll ret=1 revents=0xa
Fix this by touching the affected mount namespace after successful
propagation changes in do_change_type() and do_set_group().
Signed-off-by: Guopeng Zhang <zhangguopeng@kylinos.cn>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260601032911.940507-1-guopeng.zhang@linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
for (m = mnt; m; m = (recurse ? next_mnt(m, mnt) : NULL))
change_mnt_propagation(m, type);
+ guard(mount_locked_reader)();
+ touch_mnt_namespace(mnt->mnt_ns);
+
return 0;
}
list_add(&to->mnt_share, &from->mnt_share);
set_mnt_shared(to);
}
+
+ guard(mount_locked_reader)();
+ touch_mnt_namespace(to->mnt_ns);
+
return 0;
}