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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/33] vfs: syscall: Add open_tree(2) to reference or clone a mount [ver #11]
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On 02/08/18 22:51, David Howells wrote:
> Alan Jenkins <alan.christopher.jenkins@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Another closely-related limitation of `mount`, is that it can't atomically set
>> the propagation type at mount time.
> I want to add a mount_setattr() too at some point:
>
> fd = open_tree(..., OPEN_TREE_CLONE);
> mount_setattr(fd, ...);
> move_mount(fd, ...);

Cool.  Not having to mess with fchdir() sounds nice.  (And as a bonus,
being able to avoid the existing multiplexed mount() call, which looks
ugly from all the NULL arguments if nothing else).

> I'm not sure whether you should be able to fchdir into the cloned tree since
> it isn't attached to any mount namespace.
>
> David

I don't see a check prohibiting it :-). I don't think it's a problem.

You can already chdir/chroot into a different mount namespace, you just
can't do any mount operations on it.  (You said you want to be able to,
but so far move_mount() still prohibits it, I guess that's for the future).

And you can already do the same into a mount that has been detached,
which will have `mount->mnt_ns = NULL` if I'm reading correctly.

Hmm, there is something that's been nagging at me though.  I'm
suspicious about what happens in this series, when you move_mount() from
a victim of MNT_DETACH.  I think umount2(MNT_DETACH) sets a flag
MNT_UMOUNT.  It's a flag that was added to help correctly handle
MNT_LOCKED in the face of umount2(MNT_DETACH).  It's also the point
where my understanding of the kernel mount/unmount code breaks down
:-).  But it seems to override both IS_MNT_LOCKED() and UMOUNT_CONNECTED
in disconnect_mount().  That would give another chance to defeat locked
mounts.

Regards
Alan

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