Patch "afs: Don't cross .backup mountpoint from backup volume" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

[gregkh at linuxfoundation.org]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    afs: Don't cross .backup mountpoint from backup volume

to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     afs-don-t-cross-.backup-mountpoint-from-backup-volume.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable at vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 29be9100aca2915fab54b5693309bc42956542e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2024 17:17:55 +0100
Subject: afs: Don't cross .backup mountpoint from backup volume

From: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>

commit 29be9100aca2915fab54b5693309bc42956542e5 upstream.

Don't cross a mountpoint that explicitly specifies a backup volume
(target is <vol>.backup) when starting from a backup volume.

It it not uncommon to mount a volume's backup directly in the volume
itself.  This can cause tools that are not paying attention to get
into a loop mounting the volume onto itself as they attempt to
traverse the tree, leading to a variety of problems.

This doesn't prevent the general case of loops in a sequence of
mountpoints, but addresses a common special case in the same way
as other afs clients.

Reported-by: Jan Henrik Sylvester <jan.henrik.sylvester at uni-hamburg.de>
Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2024-May/008454.html
Reported-by: Markus Suvanto <markus.suvanto at gmail.com>
Link: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-afs/2024-February/008074.html
Signed-off-by: Marc Dionne <marc.dionne at auristor.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells at redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/768760.1716567475@warthog.procyon.org.uk
Reviewed-by: Jeffrey Altman <jaltman at auristor.com>
cc: linux-afs at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 fs/afs/mntpt.c |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/afs/mntpt.c
+++ b/fs/afs/mntpt.c
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ static int afs_mntpt_set_params(struct f
 		put_page(page);
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
+
+		/* Don't cross a backup volume mountpoint from a backup volume */
+		if (src_as->volume && src_as->volume->type == AFSVL_BACKVOL &&
+		    ctx->type == AFSVL_BACKVOL)
+			return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
 	return 0;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from marc.dionne at auristor.com are

queue-5.15/afs-don-t-cross-.backup-mountpoint-from-backup-volume.patch