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fs: relax mount_setattr() permission checks
When we added mount_setattr() I added additional checks compared to the
legacy do_reconfigure_mnt() and do_change_type() helpers used by regular
mount(2). If that mount had a parent then verify that the caller and the
mount namespace the mount is attached to match and if not make sure that
it's an anonymous mount.

The real rootfs falls into neither category. It is neither an anoymous
mount because it is obviously attached to the initial mount namespace
but it also obviously doesn't have a parent mount. So that means legacy
mount(2) allows changing mount properties on the real rootfs but
mount_setattr(2) blocks this. I never thought much about this but of
course someone on this planet of earth changes properties on the real
rootfs as can be seen in [1].

Since util-linux finally switched to the new mount api in 2.39 not so
long ago it also relies on mount_setattr() and that surfaced this issue
when Fedora 39 finally switched to it. Fix this.

Link: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2256843
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240206-vfs-mount-rootfs-v1-1-19b335eee133@kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.12+
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2024-02-07 21:16:29 +01:00
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README

Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.