kernel_optimize_test/fs/ocfs2
Eric W. Biederman 7f78e03513 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
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cluster ocfs2: convert to idr_alloc() 2013-02-27 19:10:19 -08:00
dlm hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
dlmfs fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
acl.c ocfs2: Handle kuids and kgids in acl/xattr conversions. 2013-02-13 06:00:56 -08:00
acl.h
alloc.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
alloc.h
aops.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
aops.h
blockcheck.c ocfs2: kill endianness abuses in blockcheck.c 2012-05-29 23:28:35 -04:00
blockcheck.h
buffer_head_io.c
buffer_head_io.h
dcache.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
dcache.h
dir.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
dir.h
dlmglue.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace 2013-02-25 16:00:49 -08:00
dlmglue.h
export.c fs: encode_fh: return FILEID_INVALID if invalid fid_type 2013-02-26 02:46:10 -05:00
export.h
extent_map.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
extent_map.h
file.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
file.h ->permission() sanitizing: don't pass flags to ->permission() 2011-07-20 01:43:24 -04:00
heartbeat.c
heartbeat.h ocfs2: Move o2hb functionality into the stack glue. 2008-04-18 08:56:04 -07:00
inode.c ocfs2: Convert uid and gids between in core and on disk inodes 2013-02-13 06:00:58 -08:00
inode.h ocfs2: serialize unaligned aio 2011-07-28 02:07:16 -07:00
ioctl.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
ioctl.h
journal.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
journal.h ocfs2: Add a missing journal credit in ocfs2_link_credits() -v2 2011-11-17 01:46:48 -08:00
Kconfig
localalloc.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
localalloc.h
locks.c
locks.h
Makefile
mmap.c kill f_vfsmnt 2013-02-26 02:46:10 -05:00
mmap.h
move_extents.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
move_extents.h
namei.c ocfs2: Convert uid and gids between in core and on disk inodes 2013-02-13 06:00:58 -08:00
namei.h
ocfs1_fs_compat.h
ocfs2_fs.h
ocfs2_ioctl.h
ocfs2_lockid.h
ocfs2_lockingver.h
ocfs2_trace.h
ocfs2.h ocfs2: avoid unaligned access to dqc_bitmap 2011-12-01 14:39:32 -08:00
quota_global.c userns: Convert struct dquot dq_id to be a struct kqid 2012-09-18 01:01:41 -07:00
quota_local.c userns: Convert struct dquot dq_id to be a struct kqid 2012-09-18 01:01:41 -07:00
quota.h
refcounttree.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
refcounttree.h Ocfs2/refcounttree: Publicize couple of funcs from refcounttree.c 2011-05-25 15:17:08 +08:00
reservations.c
reservations.h
resize.c
resize.h
slot_map.c ocfs2: Clean up messages in the fs 2011-07-24 10:34:54 -07:00
slot_map.h
stack_o2cb.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
stack_user.c dlm: add recovery callbacks 2012-01-04 08:56:31 -06:00
stackglue.c
stackglue.h
suballoc.c ocfs2: ac->ac_allow_chain_relink=0 won't disable group relink 2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
suballoc.h ocfs2: ac->ac_allow_chain_relink=0 won't disable group relink 2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
super.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
super.h
symlink.c ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2_fast_symlink_readpage() code path 2013-02-26 02:46:12 -05:00
symlink.h ocfs: simplify symlink handling 2012-05-29 23:28:40 -04:00
sysfile.c ocfs2: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-21 17:22:19 -08:00
sysfile.h [PATCH] OCFS2: The Second Oracle Cluster Filesystem 2006-01-03 11:45:47 -08:00
uptodate.c
uptodate.h
ver.c
ver.h
xattr.c ocfs2: fix ocfs2_init_security_and_acl() to initialize acl correctly 2013-02-27 19:10:09 -08:00
xattr.h ocfs2: propagate umode_t 2012-01-03 22:55:02 -05:00