4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com
commit a319b01d9095da6f6c54bd20c1f1300762506255 upstream.
Most libcs will still look at /dev/ptmx when opening the master fd of a pty device. When /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx and the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() is used to safely retrieve a file descriptor for the slave side of the pty based on the master fd, the /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks will point to /. A very simply reproducer for this issue presupposing a libc that uses TIOCGPTPEER in its openpty() implementation is:
unshare --mount mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx chmod 666 /dev/ptmx script ls -al /proc/self/fd/0
Having bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx not working correctly is a regression. In addition, it is also a fairly common scenario in containers employing user namespaces.
The reason for the current failure is that the kernel tries to verify the useability of the devpts filesystem without resolving the /dev/ptmx bind-mount first. This will lead it to detect that the dentry is escaping its bind-mount. The reason is that while the devpts filesystem mounted at /dev/pts has the devtmpfs mounted at /dev as its parent mount:
21 -- -- / /dev -- 21 -- / /dev/pts
devtmpfs and devpts are on different devices
-- -- 0:6 / /dev -- -- 0:20 / /dev/pts
This has the consequence that the pathname of the parent directory of the devpts filesystem mount at /dev/pts is /. So if /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx then the /dev/ptmx bind-mount and the devpts mount at /dev/pts will end up being located on the same device which is recorded in the superblock of their vfsmount. This means the parent directory of the /dev/ptmx bind-mount will be /ptmx:
-- -- ---- /ptmx /dev/ptmx
Without the bind-mount resolution patch the kernel will now perform the bind-mount escape check directly on /dev/ptmx. The function responsible for this is devpts_ptmx_path() which calls pts_path() which in turn calls path_parent_directory(). Based on the above explanation, path_parent_directory() will yield / as the parent directory for the /dev/ptmx bind-mount and not the expected /dev. Thus, the kernel detects that /dev/ptmx is escaping its bind-mount and will set /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr> to /.
This patch changes the logic to first resolve any bind-mounts. After the bind-mounts have been resolved (i.e. we have traced it back to the associated devpts mount) devpts_ptmx_path() can be called. In order to guarantee correct path generation for the slave file descriptor the kernel now requires that a pts directory is found in the parent directory of the ptmx bind-mount. This implies that when doing bind-mounts the ptmx bind-mount and the devpts mount should have a common parent directory. A valid example is:
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx
an invalid example is:
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /ptmx
This allows us to support: - calling open on ptmx devices located inside non-standard devpts mounts: mount -t devpts devpts /mnt master = open("/mnt/ptmx", ...); slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...); - calling open on ptmx devices located outside the devpts mount with a common ancestor directory: mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx master = open("/dev/ptmx", ...); slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...);
while failing on ptmx devices located outside the devpts mount without a common ancestor directory: mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /ptmx master = open("/ptmx", ...); slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, ...);
in which case save path generation cannot be guaranteed.
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner christian.brauner@ubuntu.com Suggested-by: Eric Biederman ebiederm@xmission.com Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" ebiederm@xmission.com Acked-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- fs/devpts/inode.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -160,21 +160,27 @@ struct vfsmount *devpts_mntget(struct fi path = filp->f_path; path_get(&path);
- /* Has the devpts filesystem already been found? */ - if (path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic != DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) + /* Walk upward while the start point is a bind mount of + * a single file. + */ + while (path.mnt->mnt_root == path.dentry) + if (follow_up(&path) == 0) + break; + + /* devpts_ptmx_path() finds a devpts fs or returns an error. */ + if ((path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic != DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) || + (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) != fsi)) err = devpts_ptmx_path(&path); dput(path.dentry); - if (err) { - mntput(path.mnt); - return ERR_PTR(err); - } + if (!err) { + if (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) == fsi) + return path.mnt;
- if (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) != fsi) { - mntput(path.mnt); - return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); + err = -ENODEV; }
- return path.mnt; + mntput(path.mnt); + return ERR_PTR(err); }
struct pts_fs_info *devpts_acquire(struct file *filp)