fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts

Last cycle we've already made the interaction with idmapped mounts more
robust and type safe by introducing the vfs{g,u}id_t type. This cycle we
concluded the conversion and removed the legacy helpers.

Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to
a mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate filesystem and mount namespaces and what different roles they
have to play. Especially for filesystem developers without much
experience in this area this is an easy source for bugs.

Instead of passing the plain namespace we introduce a dedicated type
struct mnt_idmap and replace the pointer with a pointer to a struct
mnt_idmap. There are no semantic or size changes for the mount struct
caused by this.

We then start converting all places aware of idmapped mounts to rely on
struct mnt_idmap. Once the conversion is done all helpers down to the
really low-level make_vfs{g,u}id() and from_vfs{g,u}id() will take a
struct mnt_idmap argument instead of two namespace arguments. This way
it becomes impossible to conflate the two, removing and thus eliminating
the possibility of any bugs. Fwiw, I fixed some issues in that area a
while ago in ntfs3 and ksmbd in the past. Afterwards, only low-level
code can ultimately use the associated namespace for any permission
checks. Even most of the vfs can be ultimately completely oblivious
about this and filesystems will never interact with it directly in any
form in the future.

A struct mnt_idmap currently encompasses a simple refcount and a pointer
to the relevant namespace the mount is idmapped to. If a mount isn't
idmapped then it will point to a static nop_mnt_idmap. If it is an
idmapped mount it will point to a new struct mnt_idmap. As usual there
are no allocations or anything happening for non-idmapped mounts.
Everthing is carefully written to be a nop for non-idmapped mounts as
has always been the case.

If an idmapped mount or mount tree is created a new struct mnt_idmap is
allocated and a reference taken on the relevant namespace. For each
mount in a mount tree that gets idmapped or a mount that inherits the
idmap when it is cloned the reference count on the associated struct
mnt_idmap is bumped. Just a reminder that we only allow a mount to
change it's idmapping a single time and only if it hasn't already been
attached to the filesystems and has no active writers.

The actual changes are fairly straightforward. This will have huge
benefits for maintenance and security in the long run even if it causes
some churn. I'm aware that there's some cost for all of you. And I'll
commit to doing this work and make this as painless as I can.

Note that this also makes it possible to extend struct mount_idmap in
the future. For example, it would be possible to place the namespace
pointer in an anonymous union together with an idmapping struct. This
would allow us to expose an api to userspace that would let it specify
idmappings directly instead of having to go through the detour of
setting up namespaces at all.

This just adds the infrastructure and doesn't do any conversions.

Reviewed-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h
index 55a4abaf67155..62475996fac66 100644
--- a/include/linux/mount.h
+++ b/include/linux/mount.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 struct super_block;
 struct dentry;
 struct user_namespace;
+struct mnt_idmap;
 struct file_system_type;
 struct fs_context;
 struct file;
@@ -70,13 +71,15 @@ struct vfsmount {
 	struct dentry *mnt_root;	/* root of the mounted tree */
 	struct super_block *mnt_sb;	/* pointer to superblock */
 	int mnt_flags;
-	struct user_namespace *mnt_userns;
+	struct mnt_idmap *mnt_idmap;
 } __randomize_layout;
 
-static inline struct user_namespace *mnt_user_ns(const struct vfsmount *mnt)
+struct user_namespace *mnt_user_ns(const struct vfsmount *mnt);
+struct user_namespace *mnt_idmap_owner(const struct mnt_idmap *idmap);
+static inline struct mnt_idmap *mnt_idmap(const struct vfsmount *mnt)
 {
 	/* Pairs with smp_store_release() in do_idmap_mount(). */
-	return smp_load_acquire(&mnt->mnt_userns);
+	return smp_load_acquire(&mnt->mnt_idmap);
 }
 
 extern int mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *mnt);