linux/fs/nfs
Eric W. Biederman 7f78e03513 fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules.
Modify the request_module to prefix the file system type with "fs-"
and add aliases to all of the filesystems that can be built as modules
to match.

A common practice is to build all of the kernel code and leave code
that is not commonly needed as modules, with the result that many
users are exposed to any bug anywhere in the kernel.

Looking for filesystems with a fs- prefix limits the pool of possible
modules that can be loaded by mount to just filesystems trivially
making things safer with no real cost.

Using aliases means user space can control the policy of which
filesystem modules are auto-loaded by editing /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf
with blacklist and alias directives.  Allowing simple, safe,
well understood work-arounds to known problematic software.

This also addresses a rare but unfortunate problem where the filesystem
name is not the same as it's module name and module auto-loading
would not work.  While writing this patch I saw a handful of such
cases.  The most significant being autofs that lives in the module
autofs4.

This is relevant to user namespaces because we can reach the request
module in get_fs_type() without having any special permissions, and
people get uncomfortable when a user specified string (in this case
the filesystem type) goes all of the way to request_module.

After having looked at this issue I don't think there is any
particular reason to perform any filtering or permission checks beyond
making it clear in the module request that we want a filesystem
module.  The common pattern in the kernel is to call request_module()
without regards to the users permissions.  In general all a filesystem
module does once loaded is call register_filesystem() and go to sleep.
Which means there is not much attack surface exposed by loading a
filesytem module unless the filesystem is mounted.  In a user
namespace filesystems are not mounted unless .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
which most filesystems do not set today.

Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reported-by: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
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blocklayout umount oops when remove blocklayoutdriver first 2013-02-17 15:40:15 -05:00
objlayout umount oops when remove blocklayoutdriver first 2013-02-17 15:40:15 -05:00
cache_lib.c NFS: simplify and clean cache library 2013-02-15 10:43:36 -05:00
cache_lib.h NFS: simplify and clean cache library 2013-02-15 10:43:36 -05:00
callback_proc.c NFSv4.1: Fix bulk recall and destroy of layouts 2013-02-14 13:22:50 -05:00
callback_xdr.c NFSv4.1: Move slot table and session struct definitions to nfs4session.h 2012-12-06 00:30:46 +01:00
callback.c NFSv4: Fix the return value for nfs_callback_start_svc 2012-10-16 13:14:42 -04:00
callback.h NFSv4.1: Clean up session draining 2012-12-06 00:30:44 +01:00
client.c nfs: idr_destroy() no longer needs idr_remove_all() 2013-02-27 19:10:14 -08:00
delegation.c NFSv4: Ensure delegation recall and byte range lock removal don't conflict 2013-02-11 15:33:13 -05:00
delegation.h NFSv4.1: Don't lose locks when a server reboots during delegation return 2013-02-11 15:33:12 -05:00
dir.c vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op 2013-02-26 02:46:09 -05:00
direct.c nfs: fix page dirtying in NFS DIO read codepath 2012-12-12 12:56:19 -05:00
dns_resolve.c SUNRPC: remove "cache_request" argument in sunrpc_cache_pipe_upcall() function 2013-02-15 10:43:47 -05:00
dns_resolve.h NFS: DNS resolver cache per network namespace context introduced 2012-01-31 18:20:26 -05:00
file.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
fscache-index.c
fscache.c NFS4: Open files for fscaching 2012-12-20 22:19:42 +00:00
fscache.h NFS: Provide stub nfs_fscache_wait_on_invalidate() for when CONFIG_NFS_FSCACHE=n 2012-12-21 08:06:48 -08:00
getroot.c nfs: remove kfree() redundant null checks 2013-02-17 15:27:21 -05:00
idmap.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2013-02-26 20:16:07 -08:00
inode.c NFS client bugfixes for Linux 3.9 2013-03-02 16:46:07 -08:00
internal.h Revert "NFS: add nfs_sb_deactive_async to avoid deadlock" 2013-02-01 10:13:48 -05:00
iostat.h
Kconfig NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL 2012-10-03 10:54:50 -07:00
Makefile NFSv4.1: Cleanup move session slot management to fs/nfs/nfs4session.c 2012-12-06 00:30:45 +01:00
mount_clnt.c NFS: Remove the BUG_ON() in the mount code 2012-11-04 14:43:39 -05:00
namespace.c NFS: Don't silently fail setattr() requests on mountpoints 2013-01-30 17:41:04 -05:00
netns.h nfs: include NFSv4 header in netns.h 2012-10-02 08:17:02 -07:00
nfs2super.c NFS: Convert v2 into a module 2012-07-30 19:06:41 -04:00
nfs2xdr.c nfs: Convert nfs2xdr to use kuids and kgids 2013-02-13 06:15:30 -08:00
nfs3acl.c userns: Pass a userns parameter into posix_acl_to_xattr and posix_acl_from_xattr 2012-09-18 01:01:35 -07:00
nfs3client.c NFS: Only initialize the ACL client in the v3 case 2012-07-30 19:05:54 -04:00
nfs3proc.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
nfs3super.c NFS: Convert v3 into a module 2012-07-30 19:06:46 -04:00
nfs3xdr.c nfs: Convert nfs3xdr to use kuids and kgids 2013-02-13 06:15:31 -08:00
nfs4_fs.h NFSv4: Ensure delegation recall and byte range lock removal don't conflict 2013-02-11 15:33:13 -05:00
nfs4client.c Merge branch 'for-3.9' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2013-02-28 18:02:55 -08:00
nfs4file.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
nfs4filelayout.c pnfs: fix resend_to_mds for directio 2013-02-24 10:07:36 -05:00
nfs4filelayout.h PNFS: set the default DS timeout to 60 seconds 2013-02-28 17:35:00 -08:00
nfs4filelayoutdev.c sunrpc: move address copy/cmp/convert routines and prototypes from clnt.h to addr.h 2013-02-05 09:41:14 -05:00
nfs4getroot.c NFSv4: fs/nfs/nfs4getroot.c needs to include "internal.h" 2012-10-16 12:37:59 -04:00
nfs4namespace.c sunrpc: move address copy/cmp/convert routines and prototypes from clnt.h to addr.h 2013-02-05 09:41:14 -05:00
nfs4proc.c NFSv4.1: LAYOUTGET EDELAY loops timeout to the MDS 2013-02-28 17:41:35 -08:00
nfs4renewd.c workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of cancel + queue 2012-08-13 16:27:37 -07:00
nfs4session.c NFSv4.1: Deal effectively with interrupted RPC calls. 2012-12-15 15:39:59 -05:00
nfs4session.h NFSv4.1: Deal effectively with interrupted RPC calls. 2012-12-15 15:39:59 -05:00
nfs4state.c NFSv4: Ensure delegation recall and byte range lock removal don't conflict 2013-02-11 15:33:13 -05:00
nfs4super.c vfs: kill FS_REVAL_DOT by adding a d_weak_revalidate dentry op 2013-02-26 02:46:09 -05:00
nfs4sysctl.c nfs: include nfs4_fh.h in nfs4sysctl.c 2012-10-02 08:17:03 -07:00
nfs4xdr.c nfs: Convert nfs4xdr to use kuids and kgids 2013-02-13 06:15:32 -08:00
nfs.h NFS: Convert v4 into a module 2012-07-30 19:06:52 -04:00
nfsroot.c SUNRPC/NFS: Add Kbuild dependencies for NFS_DEBUG/RPC_DEBUG 2012-03-20 13:08:26 -04:00
pagelist.c NFS: Clean up helper function nfs4_select_rw_stateid() 2012-09-28 16:03:04 -04:00
pnfs_dev.c hlist: drop the node parameter from iterators 2013-02-27 19:10:24 -08:00
pnfs.c NFSv4.1: LAYOUTGET EDELAY loops timeout to the MDS 2013-02-28 17:41:35 -08:00
pnfs.h pnfs: fix resend_to_mds for directio 2013-02-24 10:07:36 -05:00
proc.c new helper: file_inode(file) 2013-02-22 23:31:31 -05:00
read.c NFS: Ensure that we free the rpc_task after read and write cleanups are done 2013-01-04 12:59:10 -05:00
super.c fs: Limit sys_mount to only request filesystem modules. 2013-03-03 19:36:31 -08:00
symlink.c
sysctl.c NFS: Initialize v4 sysctls from nfs_init_v4() 2012-07-17 13:33:18 -04:00
unlink.c NFS: Don't allow NFS silly-renamed files to be deleted, no signal 2013-02-22 14:55:34 -05:00
write.c NFS: Ensure that we free the rpc_task after read and write cleanups are done 2013-01-04 12:59:10 -05:00