Revert "mqueue: switch to on-demand creation of internal mount"
This reverts commit 36735a6a. Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de> writes: > [REGRESSION v4.16-rc6] [PATCH] mqueue: forbid unprivileged user access to internal mount > > Felix reported weird behaviour on 4.16.0-rc6 with regards to mqueue[1], > which was introduced by 36735a6a ("mqueue: switch to on-demand > creation of internal mount"). > > Basically, the reproducer boils down to being able to mount mqueue if > you create a new user namespace, even if you don't unshare the IPC > namespace. > > Previously this was not possible, and you would get an -EPERM. The mount > is the *host* mqueue mount, which is being cached and just returned from > mqueue_mount(). To be honest, I'm not sure if this is safe or not (or if > it was intentional -- since I'm not familiar with mqueue). > > To me it looks like there is a missing permission check. I've included a > patch below that I've compile-tested, and should block the above...
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