nullfs distinct path check: take into account filesystems

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Mon May 31 16:54:28 UTC 2010


Right now mount_nullfs doesn't allow to, for example, mount / in /tmp/somedir even
if /tmp is a different filesystem.
I think there is no reason to do that and thus propose the following patch.

diff --git a/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.c b/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.c
index abca9fa..4bd426f 100644
--- a/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.c
+++ b/sbin/mount_nullfs/mount_nullfs.c
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ static const char rcsid[] =

 #include <sys/param.h>
 #include <sys/mount.h>
+#include <sys/stat.h>
 #include <sys/uio.h>

 #include <err.h>
@@ -62,7 +63,8 @@ struct mntopt mopts[] = {
 	MOPT_END
 };

-int	subdir(const char *, const char *);
+static int	samefs(const char *p1, const char *p2);
+static int	subdir(const char *, const char *);
 static void	usage(void) __dead2;

 int
@@ -93,7 +95,8 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 	(void)checkpath(argv[0], target);
 	(void)checkpath(argv[1], source);

-	if (subdir(target, source) || subdir(source, target))
+	if (samefs(target, source)
+	    && (subdir(target, source) || subdir(source, target)))
 		errx(EX_USAGE, "%s (%s) and %s are not distinct paths",
 		    argv[0], target, argv[1]);

@@ -116,6 +119,21 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[])
 }

 int
+samefs(const char *p1, const char *p2)
+{
+	struct stat sb;
+	uint32_t fsid1;
+	uint32_t fsid2;
+
+	stat(p1, &sb);
+	fsid1 = sb.st_dev;
+	stat(p2, &sb);
+	fsid2 = sb.st_dev;
+
+	return (fsid1 == fsid2);
+}
+
+int
 subdir(const char *p, const char *dir)
 {
 	int l;

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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