[PATCH v4 4/6] add statmount(2) syscall

[Paul Moore]

On Sun, Nov 12, 2023 at 8:06 AM Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2023 at 12:00:22PM -0500, Paul Moore wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 3:10 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 2:58 AM Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org> wrote:
> > > > > > +static int do_statmount(struct stmt_state *s)
> > > > > > +{
> > > > > > +   struct statmnt *sm = &s->sm;
> > > > > > +   struct mount *m = real_mount(s->mnt);
> > > > > > +   size_t copysize = min_t(size_t, s->bufsize, sizeof(*sm));
> > > > > > +   int err;
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +   err = security_sb_statfs(s->mnt->mnt_root);
> > > > > > +   if (err)
> > > > > > +           return err;
> > > > > > +
> > > > > > +   if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) &&
> > > > > > +       !is_path_reachable(m, m->mnt.mnt_root, &s->root))
> > > > > > +           return -EPERM;
> > > > >
> > > > > In order to be consistent with our typical access control ordering,
> > > > > please move the security_sb_statfs() call down to here, after the
> > > > > capability checks.
> > > >
> > > > I've moved the security_sb_statfs() calls accordingly.
> > >
> > > Okay, good.  Did I miss a comment or a patch where that happened?  I
> > > looked over the patchset and comments yesterday and didn't recall
> > > seeing anything about shuffling the access control checks.
> >
> > Gentle ping on this.  I'm asking because I know there have been issues
> > lately with the lists and some mail providers and I want to make sure
> > I'm not missing anything, I double checked lore again and didn't see
> > anything there either, but I might be missing it.
>
> Sorry, I'm traveling so I just didn't see this. Please see:
>
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs.mount&id=dc14fa93943918bee898d75d7ae72fc3623ce9ce
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs.mount&id=de17643cbf9b0282990bb9cf0e0bf01710c9ec03
>
> I've folded the fixup into these patches. I probably just accidently
> dropped the diff from my reply.

Okay, no worries, like I said I was mostly worried about mail/list
problems eating the response.

Thanks for fixing the access control ordering, but FWIW I was a little
surprised not to see a note, e.g. "[CB: changed access control
ordering]" or similar, in the metadata.

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