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SubjectRe: [RFC][PATCH 4/3] vfs: Allow rmdir to remove mounts in all but the current mount namespace
Matthias Schniedermeyer <ms@citd.de> writes:

> On 06.10.2013 23:55, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>> "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> writes:
>>
>> So if we can feel safe just depending on the parent directory
>> permissions (which are not hidden by a mount) protecting our mount
>> points, I feel much better about this patchset.
>
> As far as i can tell, the permissions of the host-directory of a
> mount-point are hidden, at least for user-space.
> (Ignoring (bind-)mounting the parent-mount somewhere else)
>
> As root:
> $ mkdir /tmp/test
> $ ls -ld /tmp/test
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Oct 8 12:33 /tmp/test
>
> $ mount tmpfs -t tmpfs /tmp/test
> $ ls -ld /tmp/test
> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 40 Oct 8 12:33 /tmp/test
>
> $ chown nobody.users /tmp/test
> $ ls -ld /tmp/test
> drwxrwxrwt 2 nobody users 40 Oct 8 12:33 /tmp/test
>
> $ umount /tmp/test
> $ ls -ld /tmp/test
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40 Oct 8 12:33 /tmp/test
>
>
> So if the kernel would check the host-directory-permissions for allowing
> umounting by rmdir it follows that a "plain user" doesn't have any
> possibility to know beforehand if rmdir/umount would be possible.

Except the directory that is relevant to unlink/rmdir in your example is /tmp
not /tmp/test.

But thanks for the eyeball.

Eric


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