From acff81ec2c79492b180fade3c2894425cd35a545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2015 19:18:48 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ovl: fix permission checking for setattr [Al Viro] The bug is in being too enthusiastic about optimizing ->setattr() away - instead of "copy verbatim with metadata" + "chmod/chown/utimes" (with the former being always safe and the latter failing in case of insufficient permissions) it tries to combine these two. Note that copyup itself will have to do ->setattr() anyway; _that_ is where the elevated capabilities are right. Having these two ->setattr() (one to set verbatim copy of metadata, another to do what overlayfs ->setattr() had been asked to do in the first place) combined is where it breaks. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Cc: Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index ec0c2a050043..961284936917 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -49,13 +49,13 @@ int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) if (err) goto out; - upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); - if (upperdentry) { + err = ovl_copy_up(dentry); + if (!err) { + upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); + mutex_lock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex); err = notify_change(upperdentry, attr, NULL); mutex_unlock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex); - } else { - err = ovl_copy_up_last(dentry, attr, false); } ovl_drop_write(dentry); out: -- 2.5.0