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Eric W. Biederman committed 0d0826019e5
mnt: Prevent pivot_root from creating a loop in the mount tree Andy Lutomirski recently demonstrated that when chroot is used to set the root path below the path for the new ``root'' passed to pivot_root the pivot_root system call succeeds and leaks mounts. In examining the code I see that starting with a new root that is below the current root in the mount tree will result in a loop in the mount tree after the mounts are detached and then reattached to one another. Resulting in all kinds of ugliness including a leak of that mounts involved in the leak of the mount loop. Prevent this problem by ensuring that the new mount is reachable from the current root of the mount tree. [Added stable cc. Fixes CVE-2014-7970. --Andy] Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bnpmihks.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>