Re: [RFC][PATCH 4/3] vfs: Allow rmdir to remove mounts in all but the current mount namespace

[Eric W. Biederman]

ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Eric W. Biederman
>>> Miklos if you as the fuse maintainer aren't worried about network
>>> filesystems, and multiple namespaces I won't worry either.  Especially
>>> since modern versions of fuse aren't affected.
>>
>> I think the above conditions (local mount blocks unlink/rename) are
>> enough to prevent most of the problems, of which there aren't many in
>> any case.
>
> Dumb question.
>
> What prevents someone setting up a race between the fusermount
> permission checks and replacing the destination with a symlink, perhaps
> to /etc/shadow?
>
> Do we need a MS_NOFOLLOW?

Doh!  mount(".",...) works just fine..

My apologies for the silly question.

Eric

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