Most libcs will still look at /dev/ptmx when opening the master fd of a pty device. When /dev/ptmx is a bind-mount of /dev/pts/ptmx and the TIOCGPTPEER ioctl() is used to safely retrieve a file descriptor for the slave side of the pty based on the master fd, the /proc/self/fd/{0,1,2} symlinks will point to /.
When the kernel tries to look up the root mount of the dentry for the slave file descriptor it will detect that the dentry is escaping its bind-mount since the root mount of the dentry is /dev/pts where the devpts is mounted but the root mount of /dev/ptmx is /dev. Having bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx not working correctly is a regression. In addition, it is also a fairly common scenario in containers employing user namespaces. To handle bind-mounts of /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx correctly we need to walk up the bind-mounts for /dev/ptmx in devpts_mntget(). Since the contents of /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr> symlinks attached to the slave side of a file descriptor will always point to a path under the devpts mount we need to try and ensure that the kernel doesn't falsely get the impression that a pty slave file descriptor retrieved via TIOCGPTPEER based on a pty master file descriptor opened via a bind-mount of the ptmx device escapes its bind-mount. To clarify in pseudo code: * bind-mount /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx * master = open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_CLOEXEC); * slave = ioctl(master, TIOCGPTPEER, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY | O_CLOEXEC); would cause the kernel to think that slave is escaping its bind-mount. The reason is that while the devpts mounted at /dev/pts has devtmpfs mounted at /dev as its parent mount: 21 -- -- / /dev -- 21 -- / /dev/pts they are on different devices -- -- 0:6 / /dev -- -- 0:20 / /dev/pts which has the consequence that the pathname of the directory which forms the root of the /dev/pts mount is /. So if we bind-mount /dev/pts/ptmx to /dev/ptmx we will end up on the same device as the devtmpfs mount at /dev/pts -- -- 0:20 /ptmx /dev/ptmx Without the bind-mount resolution patch here the kernel will now perform the bind-mount escape check directly on /dev/ptmx. When it hits devpts_ptmx_path() calls pts_path() which in turn calls path_parent_directory(). While one would expect that path_parent_directory() *should* yield /dev it will yield / since /dev and /dev/pts are on different devices. This will cause path_pts() to fail finding a "pts" directory since there is none under /. Thus, the kernel detects that /dev/ptmx is escaping its bind-mount and will set /proc/<pid>/fd/<nr> to /. This patch changes the logic to do bind-mount resolution and after the bind-mount has been resolved (i.e. we have traced it back to the devpts mount) we can safely perform devpts_ptmx_path() and check whether we find a "pts" directory in the parent directory of the devpts mount. Since path_parent_directory() will now correctly yield /dev as parent directory for the devpts mount at /dev/pts. However, we can only perform devpts_ptmx_path() devpts_mntget() if we either did resolve a bind-mount or did not find a suitable devpts filesystem. The reason is that we want and need to support non-standard mountpoints for the devpts filesystem. If we call devpts_ptmx_path() although we did already find a devpts filesystem and did not resolve bind-mounts we will fail on devpts mounts such as: mount -t devpts devpts /mnt where no "pts" directory will be under /. So change the logic to account for this. Here's a little reproducer that presupposes a libc that uses TIOCGPTPEER in its openpty() implementation: unshare --mount mount --bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx chmod 666 /dev/ptmx script ls -al /proc/self/fd/0 with output: lrwx------ 1 chb chb 64 Mar 7 16:41 /proc/self/fd/0 -> / Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brau...@ubuntu.com> Suggested-by: Eric Biederman <ebied...@xmission.com> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> --- ChangeLog v2->v3: * rework logic to account for non-standard devpts mounts such as mount -t devpts devpts /mnt ChangeLog v1->v2: * move removal of if (path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) condition to separate patch with non-functional changes ChangeLog v0->v1: * remove /* Has the devpts filesystem already been found? */ if (path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic == DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) return 0 from devpts_ptmx_path() * check superblock after devpts_ptmx_path() returned --- fs/devpts/inode.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c index d3ddbb888874..b31362c6c548 100644 --- a/fs/devpts/inode.c +++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c @@ -154,27 +154,35 @@ static int devpts_ptmx_path(struct path *path) struct vfsmount *devpts_mntget(struct file *filp, struct pts_fs_info *fsi) { + bool unwind; struct path path; + int err = 0; path = filp->f_path; path_get(&path); - /* Has the devpts filesystem already been found? */ - if (path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic != DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) { - int err; + unwind = (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) == fsi) && + (path.mnt->mnt_root == fsi->ptmx_dentry); + /* Walk upward while the start point is a bind mount of + * a single file. + */ + while (path.mnt->mnt_root == path.dentry && unwind) + if (follow_up(&path) == 0) + break; + if ((path.mnt->mnt_sb->s_magic != DEVPTS_SUPER_MAGIC) || unwind) err = devpts_ptmx_path(&path); - dput(path.dentry); - if (err) { - mntput(path.mnt); - return ERR_PTR(err); - } + dput(path.dentry); + if (err) { + mntput(path.mnt); + return ERR_PTR(err); } if (DEVPTS_SB(path.mnt->mnt_sb) != fsi) { mntput(path.mnt); return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); } + return path.mnt; } -- 2.15.1