Re: DoS with unprivileged mounts

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> The solution is also theoretically simple: mounts in unpriv namespaces
>> are marked "volatile" and are dissolved on an unlink type operation.
>>
>> Such volatile mounts would be useful in general too.
>
> Agreed.
>
> This is a problem that is a general pain with mount namespaces in
> general.
>
> I think the real technical hurdle is finding the mounts t in some random
> mount namespace.  Once we can do that relatively efficiently the rest
> becomes simple.

We already have a "struct mountpoint" hashed on the dentry.  Chaining
mounts on that mountpoint would be trivial.  And we need a
MNT_VOLATILE flag and that's it.  If we fear that traversing the list
of mounts on the dentry to check for non-volatile ones then we could
also add a separate volatile counter to struct mountpoint and a
matching flag to the dentry.  But I don't think that's really
necessary.

Thanks,
Miklos
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