Re: [RFC] move_mount(2): still breakage around new mount detection

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On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 06:10:54AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 05:03:58AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 07:53:18PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> > 
> > > FWIW, I've a series of cleanups falling out of audit of struct mount
> > > handling; it's still growing, but I'll post the stable parts for review
> > > tonight or tomorrow...
> > 
> > _Another_ fun one, this time around do_umount().
> 
> ... and more, from 620c266f3949 "fhandle: relax open_by_handle_at()
> permission checks" - just what is protecting has_locked_children()
> use there?  We are, after all, iterating through ->mnt_mounts -
> with no locks whatsoever.  Not to mention the fun question regarding
> the result (including the bits sensitive to is_mounted()) remaining
> valid by the time you get through exportfs_decode_fh_raw() (and no,
> you can't hold any namespace_sem over it - no IO allowed under
> that, so we'll need to recheck after that point)...

Anyway, I've pushed the obvious fixes to viro/vfs.git#fixes for now;
there's more coming (mnt_flags misuses, basically), but that'll have
to wait until I get some sleep...




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