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-rw-r--r--fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c21
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
index 22fb1cf7e1fc..f69c451018e3 100644
--- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
+++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c
@@ -1591,11 +1591,10 @@ static int fanotify_test_fid(struct dentry *dentry)
* We need to make sure that the file system supports at least
* encoding a file handle so user can use name_to_handle_at() to
* compare fid returned with event to the file handle of watched
- * objects. However, name_to_handle_at() requires that the
- * filesystem also supports decoding file handles.
+ * objects. However, even the relaxed AT_HANDLE_FID flag requires
+ * at least empty export_operations for ecoding unique file ids.
*/
- if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op ||
- !dentry->d_sb->s_export_op->fh_to_dentry)
+ if (!dentry->d_sb->s_export_op)
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
return 0;
@@ -1624,6 +1623,20 @@ static int fanotify_events_supported(struct fsnotify_group *group,
return -EINVAL;
/*
+ * mount and sb marks are not allowed on kernel internal pseudo fs,
+ * like pipe_mnt, because that would subscribe to events on all the
+ * anonynous pipes in the system.
+ *
+ * SB_NOUSER covers all of the internal pseudo fs whose objects are not
+ * exposed to user's mount namespace, but there are other SB_KERNMOUNT
+ * fs, like nsfs, debugfs, for which the value of allowing sb and mount
+ * mark is questionable. For now we leave them alone.
+ */
+ if (mark_type != FAN_MARK_INODE &&
+ path->mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags & SB_NOUSER)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ /*
* We shouldn't have allowed setting dirent events and the directory
* flags FAN_ONDIR and FAN_EVENT_ON_CHILD in mask of non-dir inode,
* but because we always allowed it, error only when using new APIs.