ovl: override creds with the ones from the superblock mounter

In user namespace the whiteout creation fails with -EPERM because the
current process isn't capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) when setting xattr.

A simple reproducer:

$ mkdir upper lower work merged lower/dir
$ sudo mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merged
$ unshare -m -p -f -U -r bash

Now as root in the user namespace:

\# touch merged/dir/{1,2,3} # this will force a copy up of lower/dir
\# rm -fR merged/*

This ends up failing with -EPERM after the files in dir has been
correctly deleted:

unlinkat(4, "2", 0)                     = 0
unlinkat(4, "1", 0)                     = 0
unlinkat(4, "3", 0)                     = 0
close(4)                                = 0
unlinkat(AT_FDCWD, "merged/dir", AT_REMOVEDIR) = -1 EPERM (Operation not
permitted)

Interestingly, if you don't place files in merged/dir you can remove it,
meaning if upper/dir does not exist, creating the char device file works
properly in that same location.

This patch uses ovl_sb_creator_cred() to get the cred struct from the
superblock mounter and override the old cred with these new ones so that
the whiteout creation is possible because overlay is wrong in assuming that
the creds it will get with prepare_creds will be in the initial user
namespace.  The old cap_raise game is removed in favor of just overriding
the old cred struct.

This patch also drops from ovl_copy_up_one() the following two lines:

override_cred->fsuid = stat->uid;
override_cred->fsgid = stat->gid;

This is because the correct uid and gid are taken directly with the stat
struct and correctly set with ovl_set_attr().

Signed-off-by: Antonio Murdaca <runcom@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 11 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index 6ec1e43a9a54..e9206bc8598f 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct ovl_dir_cache {
 
 struct ovl_readdir_data {
 	struct dir_context ctx;
+	struct dentry *dentry;
 	bool is_lowest;
 	struct rb_root root;
 	struct list_head *list;
@@ -206,17 +207,8 @@ static int ovl_check_whiteouts(struct dentry *dir, struct ovl_readdir_data *rdd)
 	struct ovl_cache_entry *p;
 	struct dentry *dentry;
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
-	struct cred *override_cred;
-
-	override_cred = prepare_creds();
-	if (!override_cred)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	/*
-	 * CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE for lookup
-	 */
-	cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE);
-	old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
+	old_cred = ovl_override_creds(rdd->dentry->d_sb);
 
 	err = mutex_lock_killable(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	if (!err) {
@@ -232,7 +224,6 @@ static int ovl_check_whiteouts(struct dentry *dir, struct ovl_readdir_data *rdd)
 		inode_unlock(dir->d_inode);
 	}
 	revert_creds(old_cred);
-	put_cred(override_cred);
 
 	return err;
 }
@@ -288,6 +279,7 @@ static int ovl_dir_read_merged(struct dentry *dentry, struct list_head *list)
 	struct path realpath;
 	struct ovl_readdir_data rdd = {
 		.ctx.actor = ovl_fill_merge,
+		.dentry = dentry,
 		.list = list,
 		.root = RB_ROOT,
 		.is_lowest = false,