linux-stable/fs/overlayfs
Amir Goldstein 2a33522994 ovl: fix missing override creds in link of a metacopy upper
commit 91ff20f34e upstream.

Theodore Ts'o reported a v4.19 regression with docker-dropbox:
https://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=154070089431116&w=2

"I was rebuilding my dropbox Docker container, and it failed in 4.19
 with the following error:
 ...
 dpkg: error: error creating new backup file \
              '/var/lib/dpkg/status-old': Invalid cross-device link"

The problem did not reproduce with metacopy feature disabled.
The error was caused by insufficient credentials to set
"trusted.overlay.redirect" xattr on link of a metacopy file.

Reproducer:

 echo Y > /sys/module/overlay/parameters/redirect_dir
 echo Y > /sys/module/overlay/parameters/metacopy
 cd /tmp
 mkdir l u w m
 chmod 777 l u
 touch l/foo
 ln l/foo l/link
 chmod 666 l/foo
 mount -t overlay none -olowerdir=l,upperdir=u,workdir=w m
 su fsgqa
 ln m/foo m/bar
 [   21.455823] overlayfs: failed to set redirect (-1)
 ln: failed to create hard link 'm/bar' => 'm/foo':\
     Invalid cross-device link

Reported-by: Theodore Y. Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Reported-by: Maciej Zięba <maciekz82@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4120fe64dc ("ovl: Set redirect on upper inode when it is linked")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-12-19 19:19:51 +01:00
..
copy_up.c vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range() 2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00
dir.c ovl: fix missing override creds in link of a metacopy upper 2018-12-19 19:19:51 +01:00
export.c ovl: fix decode of dir file handle with multi lower layers 2018-12-19 19:19:51 +01:00
file.c vfs: swap names of {do,vfs}_clone_file_range() 2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00
inode.c ovl: make symbol 'ovl_aops' static 2018-09-25 20:41:23 +02:00
Kconfig ovl: Provide a mount option metacopy=on/off for metadata copyup 2018-07-20 09:56:06 +02:00
Makefile ovl: stack file ops 2018-07-18 15:44:41 +02:00
namei.c ovl: fix error handling in ovl_verify_set_fh() 2018-11-21 09:19:12 +01:00
overlayfs.h ovl: fix format of setxattr debug 2018-10-04 14:49:10 +02:00
ovl_entry.h ovl: Store lower data inode in ovl_inode 2018-07-20 09:56:11 +02:00
readdir.c ovl: fix wrong use of impure dir cache in ovl_iterate() 2018-07-17 16:04:34 +02:00
super.c ovl: automatically enable redirect_dir on metacopy=on 2018-11-21 09:19:13 +01:00
util.c ovl: fix memory leak on unlink of indexed file 2018-09-24 10:54:01 +02:00