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| author | Mattias Nissler <mnissler@chromium.org> | 2020-08-27 11:09:46 -0600 |
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| committer | Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> | 2020-08-27 16:06:47 -0400 |
| commit | dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b39df2523fc6e (patch) | |
| tree | 1203850bac7f0ee707271a2d8f8c0d7d9bf74c74 /include/linux/mount.h | |
| parent | 9123e3a74ec7b934a4a099e98af6a61c2f80bbf5 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b39df2523fc6e.tar.gz lwn-dab741e0e02bd3c4f5e2e97be74b39df2523fc6e.zip | |
Add a "nosymfollow" mount option.
For mounts that have the new "nosymfollow" option, don't follow symlinks
when resolving paths. The new option is similar in spirit to the
existing "nodev", "noexec", and "nosuid" options, as well as to the
LOOKUP_NO_SYMLINKS resolve flag in the openat2(2) syscall. Various BSD
variants have been supporting the "nosymfollow" mount option for a long
time with equivalent implementations.
Note that symlinks may still be created on file systems mounted with
the "nosymfollow" option present. readlink() remains functional, so
user space code that is aware of symlinks can still choose to follow
them explicitly.
Setting the "nosymfollow" mount option helps prevent privileged
writers from modifying files unintentionally in case there is an
unexpected link along the accessed path. The "nosymfollow" option is
thus useful as a defensive measure for systems that need to deal with
untrusted file systems in privileged contexts.
More information on the history and motivation for this patch can be
found here:
https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/hardening-against-malicious-stateful-data#TOC-Restricting-symlink-traversal
Signed-off-by: Mattias Nissler <mnissler@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/mount.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/mount.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h index de657bd211fa..aaf343b38671 100644 --- a/include/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/linux/mount.h @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ struct fs_context; #define MNT_NODIRATIME 0x10 #define MNT_RELATIME 0x20 #define MNT_READONLY 0x40 /* does the user want this to be r/o? */ +#define MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW 0x80 #define MNT_SHRINKABLE 0x100 #define MNT_WRITE_HOLD 0x200 @@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ struct fs_context; #define MNT_SHARED_MASK (MNT_UNBINDABLE) #define MNT_USER_SETTABLE_MASK (MNT_NOSUID | MNT_NODEV | MNT_NOEXEC \ | MNT_NOATIME | MNT_NODIRATIME | MNT_RELATIME \ - | MNT_READONLY) + | MNT_READONLY | MNT_NOSYMFOLLOW) #define MNT_ATIME_MASK (MNT_NOATIME | MNT_NODIRATIME | MNT_RELATIME ) #define MNT_INTERNAL_FLAGS (MNT_SHARED | MNT_WRITE_HOLD | MNT_INTERNAL | \ |