[PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/4] landlock: Use path_walk_parent()

[Mickaël Salaün]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 09:47:36AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2025 at 12:37 PM Song Liu <song at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 3, 2025 at 6:46 AM Mickaël Salaün <mic at digikod.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Landlock tests with hostfs fail:
> > >
> > > ok 126 layout3_fs.hostfs.tag_inode_file
> > > #  RUN           layout3_fs.hostfs.release_inodes ...
> > > # fs_test.c:5555:release_inodes:Expected EACCES (13) == test_open(TMP_DIR, O_RDONLY) (0)
> > >
> > > This specific test checks that an access to a (denied) mount point over
> > > an allowed directory is indeed denied.
> 
> I just realized this only fails on hostfs. AFAICT, hostfs is only used
> by um. Do we really need this to behave the same on um+hostfs?

Yes, this would be a regression, and in fact it is not related to hostfs
and it would be a new security bug.

The issue is that the path_walk_parent() doesn't return the parent
dentry but the underlying mount point if any.  When choose_mountpoint()
returns true, path_walk_parent() should continue to the following root
check and potentiall the dget_parent() call.  We need to be careful with
the path_put() though.

This issue was only spotted by this hostfs test because this one adds a
rule which is tied to the inode of the mount which is in fact the same
inode of the mount point because the mount is a bind mount.  I'll send a
new test that check the same thing but with tmpfs (for convenience, but
it would be the same for any filesystem).

> 
> Thanks,
> Song
> 
> >
> > I am having trouble understanding the test. It appears to me
> > the newly mounted tmpfs on /tmp is allowed, but accesses to
> > / and thus mount point /tmp is denied? What would the walk in
> > is_access_to_paths_allowed look like?

The test checks that a mount is not wrongly identified as the underlying
mount point.

> >
> > > It's not clear to me the origin of the issue, but it seems to be related
> > > to choose_mountpoint().
> > >
> > > You can run these tests with `check-linux.sh build kselftest` from
> > > https://github.com/landlock-lsm/landlock-test-tools
> >
> > How should I debug this test? printk doesn't seem to work.

The console log level is set to warn, so you can use pr_warn().

> >
> > Thanks,
> > Song