Re: [PATCH v7 03/11] ceph: handle idmapped mounts in create_request_message()

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 08:36:40AM +0200, Aleksandr Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 7:30 AM Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 7/26/23 22:10, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > > Inode operations that create a new filesystem object such as ->mknod,
> > > ->create, ->mkdir() and others don't take a {g,u}id argument explicitly.
> > > Instead the caller's fs{g,u}id is used for the {g,u}id of the new
> > > filesystem object.
> > >
> > > In order to ensure that the correct {g,u}id is used map the caller's
> > > fs{g,u}id for creation requests. This doesn't require complex changes.
> > > It suffices to pass in the relevant idmapping recorded in the request
> > > message. If this request message was triggered from an inode operation
> > > that creates filesystem objects it will have passed down the relevant
> > > idmaping. If this is a request message that was triggered from an inode
> > > operation that doens't need to take idmappings into account the initial
> > > idmapping is passed down which is an identity mapping.
> > >
> > > This change uses a new cephfs protocol extension CEPHFS_FEATURE_HAS_OWNER_UIDGID
> > > which adds two new fields (owner_{u,g}id) to the request head structure.
> > > So, we need to ensure that MDS supports it otherwise we need to fail
> > > any IO that comes through an idmapped mount because we can't process it
> > > in a proper way. MDS server without such an extension will use caller_{u,g}id
> > > fields to set a new inode owner UID/GID which is incorrect because caller_{u,g}id
> > > values are unmapped. At the same time we can't map these fields with an
> > > idmapping as it can break UID/GID-based permission checks logic on the
> > > MDS side. This problem was described with a lot of details at [1], [2].
> > >
> > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAEivzxfw1fHO2TFA4dx3u23ZKK6Q+EThfzuibrhA3RKM=ZOYLg@mail.gmail.com/
> > > [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220104140414.155198-3-brauner@kernel.org/
> > >
> > > Cc: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
> > > Cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
> > > Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
> > > Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
> > > Co-Developed-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@canonical.com>
> > > ---
> > > v7:
> > >       - reworked to use two new fields for owner UID/GID (https://github.com/ceph/ceph/pull/52575)
> > > ---
> > >   fs/ceph/mds_client.c         | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
> > >   fs/ceph/mds_client.h         |  5 ++++-
> > >   include/linux/ceph/ceph_fs.h |  4 +++-
> > >   3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> > > index c641ab046e98..ac095a95f3d0 100644
> > > --- a/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> > > +++ b/fs/ceph/mds_client.c
> > > @@ -2923,6 +2923,7 @@ static struct ceph_msg *create_request_message(struct ceph_mds_session *session,
> > >   {
> > >       int mds = session->s_mds;
> > >       struct ceph_mds_client *mdsc = session->s_mdsc;
> > > +     struct ceph_client *cl = mdsc->fsc->client;
> > >       struct ceph_msg *msg;
> > >       struct ceph_mds_request_head_legacy *lhead;
> > >       const char *path1 = NULL;
> > > @@ -3028,6 +3029,16 @@ static struct ceph_msg *create_request_message(struct ceph_mds_session *session,
> > >       lhead = find_legacy_request_head(msg->front.iov_base,
> > >                                        session->s_con.peer_features);
> > >
> > > +     if ((req->r_mnt_idmap != &nop_mnt_idmap) &&
> > > +         !test_bit(CEPHFS_FEATURE_HAS_OWNER_UIDGID, &session->s_features)) {
> > > +             pr_err_ratelimited_client(cl,
> > > +                     "idmapped mount is used and CEPHFS_FEATURE_HAS_OWNER_UIDGID"
> > > +                     " is not supported by MDS. Fail request with -EIO.\n");
> > > +
> > > +             ret = -EIO;
> > > +             goto out_err;
> > > +     }
> > > +
> >
> > I think this couldn't fail the mounting operation, right ?
> 
> This won't fail mounting. First of all an idmapped mount is always an
> additional mount, you always
> start from doing "normal" mount and only after that you can use this
> mount to create an idmapped one.
> ( example: https://github.com/brauner/mount-idmapped/tree/master )
> 
> >
> > IMO we should fail the mounting from the beginning.
> 
> Unfortunately, we can't fail mount from the beginning. Procedure of
> the idmapped mounts
> creation is handled not on the filesystem level, but on the VFS level

Correct. It's a generic vfsmount feature.

> (source: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/0a8db05b571ad5b8d5c8774a004c0424260a90bd/fs/namespace.c#L4277
> )
> 
> Kernel perform all required checks as:
> - filesystem type has declared to support idmappings
> (fs_type->fs_flags & FS_ALLOW_IDMAP)
> - user who creates idmapped mount should be CAP_SYS_ADMIN in a user
> namespace that owns superblock of the filesystem
> (for cephfs it's always init_user_ns => user should be root on the host)
> 
> So I would like to go this way because of the reasons mentioned above:
> - root user is someone who understands what he does.
> - idmapped mounts are never "first" mounts. They are always created
> after "normal" mount.
> - effectively this check makes "normal" mount to work normally and
> fail only requests that comes through an idmapped mounts
> with reasonable error message. Obviously, all read operations will
> work perfectly well only the operations that create new inodes will
> fail.
> Btw, we already have an analogical semantic on the VFS level for users
> who have no UID/GID mapping to the host. Filesystem requests for
> such users will fail with -EOVERFLOW. Here we have something close.

Refusing requests coming from an idmapped mount if the server misses
appropriate features is good enough as a first step imho. And yes, we do
have similar logic on the vfs level for unmapped uid/gid.