On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 03:45:19PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 10:27:16AM +0200, Hanna Reitz wrote:
On 16.08.21 21:44, Vivek Goyal wrote:
On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 08:41:18AM +0200, Hanna Reitz wrote:
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But given the inotify complications, there’s really a good reason we should
use mountinfo.
It’s a bit tricky because our sandboxing prevents easy access to mountinfo,
but if that’s the only way...
yes. We already have lo->proc_self_fd. Maybe we need to keep
/proc/self/mountinfo open in lo->proc_self_mountinfo. I am assuming
that any mount table changes will still be visible despite the fact
I have fd open (and don't have to open new fd to notice new mount/unmount
changes).
Well, yes, that was my idea. Unfortunately, I wasn’t quite successful yet;
when I tried keeping the fd open, reading from it would just return 0
bytes. Perhaps that’s because we bind-mount /proc/self/fd to /proc so that
nothing else in /proc is visible. Perhaps we need to bind-mount
/proc/self/mountinfo into /proc/self/fd before that...
Or perhaps open /proc/self/mountinfo and save fd in lo->proc_mountinfo
before /proc/self/fd is bind mounted on /proc?
Yes, I tried that, and then reading would just return 0 bytes.
Hi Hanna,
I tried this simple patch and I can read /proc/self/mountinfo before
bind mounting /proc/self/fd and after bind mounting /proc/self/fd. Am
I missing something.
Yes, but I tried reading it in the main loop (where we’d actually need it).
It looks like the umount2(".", MNT_DETACH) in setup_mounts() breaks it.
Good point. I modified my code and notice too that after umoutn2() it
always reads 0 bytes. I can understand that all the other mount points
could go away but new rootfs mount point of virtiofsd should still be
visible, IIUC. I don't understand why.
Anyway, I tried re-opening /proc/self/mountinfo file after umount2(".",
MNT_DETACH), and that seems to work and it shows root mount point. I
created a bind mount and it shows that too.
So looks like quick fix can be that we re-open /proc/self/mountinfo. But
that means we can't bind /proc/self/fd on /proc/. We could bind mount
/proc/self on /proc. Not sure is it safe enough.
Or may be I can do this.
- Open O_PATH fd for /proc/self
proc_self = open("/proc/self");
- Bind mount /proc/self/fd on /proc
- pivot_root() and umount() stuff
- Openat(proc_self, "mountinfo")
- close(proc_self)
If this works, then we don't have the security issue and we managed
to open mountinfo after pivot_root() and umount(). Will give it a
try and see if it works tomorrow.