From: Mattias Nissler mnissler@chromium.org
For mounts that have the new "nosymfollow" option, don't follow symlinks when resolving paths. The new option is similar in spirit to the existing "nodev", "noexec", and "nosuid" options, as well as to the LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS resolve flag in the openat2(2) syscall. Various BSD variants have been supporting the "nosymfollow" mount option for a long time with equivalent implementations.
Note that symlinks may still be created on file systems mounted with the "nosymfollow" option present. readlink() remains functional, so user space code that is aware of symlinks can still choose to follow them explicitly.
Setting the "nosymfollow" mount option helps prevent privileged writers from modifying files unintentionally in case there is an unexpected link along the accessed path. The "nosymfollow" option is thus useful as a defensive measure for systems that need to deal with untrusted file systems in privileged contexts.
More information on the history and motivation for this patch can be found here:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-do...
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler mnissler@chromium.org Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler zwisler@google.com Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai cyphar@cyphar.com --- Changes since v8 [1]: * Look for MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW in link->mnt->mnt_flags so we are testing the link itself rather than the directory holding the link. (Al Viro) * Rebased onto v5.9-rc2.
After this lands I will upstream changes to util-linux[2] and man-pages [3].
[1]: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11724607/ [2]: https://github.com/rzwisler/util-linux/commit/7f8771acd85edb70d97921c026c55e... [3]: https://github.com/rzwisler/man-pages/commit/b8fe8079f64b5068940c0144586e580... --- fs/namei.c | 3 ++- fs/namespace.c | 2 ++ fs/proc_namespace.c | 1 + fs/statfs.c | 2 ++ include/linux/mount.h | 3 ++- include/linux/statfs.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/mount.h | 1 + 7 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index e99e2a9da0f7d..33e8c79bc761e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -1626,7 +1626,8 @@ static const char *pick_link(struct nameidata *nd, struct path *link, return ERR_PTR(error); }
- if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS)) + if (unlikely(nd->flags & LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS) || + unlikely(link->mnt->mnt_flags & MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW)) return ERR_PTR(-ELOOP);
if (!(nd->flags & LOOKUP_RCU)) { diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index bae0e95b3713a..6408788a649e1 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -3160,6 +3160,8 @@ int path_mount(const char *dev_name, struct path *path, mnt_flags &= ~(MNT_RELATIME | MNT_NOATIME); if (flags & MS_RDONLY) mnt_flags |= MNT_READONLY; + if (flags & MS_NOSYMFOLLOW) + mnt_flags |= MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW;
/* The default atime for remount is preservation */ if ((flags & MS_REMOUNT) && diff --git a/fs/proc_namespace.c b/fs/proc_namespace.c index 3059a9394c2d6..e59d4bb3a89e4 100644 --- a/fs/proc_namespace.c +++ b/fs/proc_namespace.c @@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ static void show_mnt_opts(struct seq_file *m, struct vfsmount *mnt) { MNT_NOATIME, ",noatime" }, { MNT_NODIRATIME, ",nodiratime" }, { MNT_RELATIME, ",relatime" }, + { MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW, ",nosymfollow" }, { 0, NULL } }; const struct proc_fs_opts *fs_infop; diff --git a/fs/statfs.c b/fs/statfs.c index 2616424012ea7..59f33752c1311 100644 --- a/fs/statfs.c +++ b/fs/statfs.c @@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ static int flags_by_mnt(int mnt_flags) flags |= ST_NODIRATIME; if (mnt_flags & MNT_RELATIME) flags |= ST_RELATIME; + if (mnt_flags & MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW) + flags |= ST_NOSYMFOLLOW; return flags; }
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h index de657bd211fa6..aaf343b38671c 100644 --- a/include/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/linux/mount.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct fs_context; #define MNT_NODIRATIME 0x10 #define MNT_RELATIME 0x20 #define MNT_READONLY 0x40 /* does the user want this to be r/o? */ +#define MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW 0x80
#define MNT_SHRINKABLE 0x100 #define MNT_WRITE_HOLD 0x200 @@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ struct fs_context; #define MNT_SHARED_MASK (MNT_UNBINDABLE) #define MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK (MNT_NOSUID | MNT_NODEV | MNT_NOEXEC \ | MNT_NOATIME | MNT_NODIRATIME | MNT_RELATIME \ - | MNT_READONLY) + | MNT_READONLY | MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW) #define MNT_ATIME_MASK (MNT_NOATIME | MNT_NODIRATIME | MNT_RELATIME )
#define MNT_INTERNAL_FLAGS (MNT_SHARED | MNT_WRITE_HOLD | MNT_INTERNAL | \ diff --git a/include/linux/statfs.h b/include/linux/statfs.h index 9bc69edb8f188..fac4356ea1bfc 100644 --- a/include/linux/statfs.h +++ b/include/linux/statfs.h @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ struct kstatfs { #define ST_NOATIME 0x0400 /* do not update access times */ #define ST_NODIRATIME 0x0800 /* do not update directory access times */ #define ST_RELATIME 0x1000 /* update atime relative to mtime/ctime */ +#define ST_NOSYMFOLLOW 0x2000 /* do not follow symlinks */
struct dentry; extern int vfs_get_fsid(struct dentry *dentry, __kernel_fsid_t *fsid); diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/mount.h b/include/uapi/linux/mount.h index 96a0240f23fed..dd8306ea336c1 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/mount.h @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ #define MS_REMOUNT 32 /* Alter flags of a mounted FS */ #define MS_MANDLOCK 64 /* Allow mandatory locks on an FS */ #define MS_DIRSYNC 128 /* Directory modifications are synchronous */ +#define MS_NOSYMFOLLOW 256 /* Do not follow symlinks */ #define MS_NOATIME 1024 /* Do not update access times. */ #define MS_NODIRATIME 2048 /* Do not update directory access times */ #define MS_BIND 4096