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, 5 insertions, 62 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index b3fc0a35bf62..22f0253a3567 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -405,28 +405,13 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, int mode, dev_t rdev,
 		err = ovl_create_upper(dentry, inode, &stat, link, hardlink);
 	} else {
 		const struct cred *old_cred;
-		struct cred *override_cred;
 
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		override_cred = prepare_creds();
-		if (!override_cred)
-			goto out_iput;
-
-		/*
-		 * CAP_SYS_ADMIN for setting opaque xattr
-		 * CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE for create in workdir, rename
-		 * CAP_FOWNER for removing whiteout from sticky dir
-		 */
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_FOWNER);
-		old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
+		old_cred = ovl_override_creds(dentry->d_sb);
 
 		err = ovl_create_over_whiteout(dentry, inode, &stat, link,
 					       hardlink);
 
 		revert_creds(old_cred);
-		put_cred(override_cred);
 	}
 
 	if (!err)
@@ -662,32 +647,11 @@ static int ovl_do_remove(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
 	if (OVL_TYPE_PURE_UPPER(type)) {
 		err = ovl_remove_upper(dentry, is_dir);
 	} else {
-		const struct cred *old_cred;
-		struct cred *override_cred;
-
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		override_cred = prepare_creds();
-		if (!override_cred)
-			goto out_drop_write;
-
-		/*
-		 * CAP_SYS_ADMIN for setting xattr on whiteout, opaque dir
-		 * CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE for create in workdir, rename
-		 * CAP_FOWNER for removing whiteout from sticky dir
-		 * CAP_FSETID for chmod of opaque dir
-		 * CAP_CHOWN for chown of opaque dir
-		 */
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_FOWNER);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_FSETID);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_CHOWN);
-		old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
+		const struct cred *old_cred = ovl_override_creds(dentry->d_sb);
 
 		err = ovl_remove_and_whiteout(dentry, is_dir);
 
 		revert_creds(old_cred);
-		put_cred(override_cred);
 	}
 out_drop_write:
 	ovl_drop_write(dentry);
@@ -725,7 +689,6 @@ static int ovl_rename2(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old,
 	bool new_is_dir = false;
 	struct dentry *opaquedir = NULL;
 	const struct cred *old_cred = NULL;
-	struct cred *override_cred = NULL;
 
 	err = -EINVAL;
 	if (flags & ~(RENAME_EXCHANGE | RENAME_NOREPLACE))
@@ -794,26 +757,8 @@ static int ovl_rename2(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old,
 	old_opaque = !OVL_TYPE_PURE_UPPER(old_type);
 	new_opaque = !OVL_TYPE_PURE_UPPER(new_type);
 
-	if (old_opaque || new_opaque) {
-		err = -ENOMEM;
-		override_cred = prepare_creds();
-		if (!override_cred)
-			goto out_drop_write;
-
-		/*
-		 * CAP_SYS_ADMIN for setting xattr on whiteout, opaque dir
-		 * CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE for create in workdir
-		 * CAP_FOWNER for removing whiteout from sticky dir
-		 * CAP_FSETID for chmod of opaque dir
-		 * CAP_CHOWN for chown of opaque dir
-		 */
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_SYS_ADMIN);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_FOWNER);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_FSETID);
-		cap_raise(override_cred->cap_effective, CAP_CHOWN);
-		old_cred = override_creds(override_cred);
-	}
+	if (old_opaque || new_opaque)
+		old_cred = ovl_override_creds(old->d_sb);
 
 	if (overwrite && OVL_TYPE_MERGE_OR_LOWER(new_type) && new_is_dir) {
 		opaquedir = ovl_check_empty_and_clear(new);
@@ -943,10 +888,8 @@ out_dput_old:
 out_unlock:
 	unlock_rename(new_upperdir, old_upperdir);
 out_revert_creds:
-	if (old_opaque || new_opaque) {
+	if (old_opaque || new_opaque)
 		revert_creds(old_cred);
-		put_cred(override_cred);
-	}
 out_drop_write:
 	ovl_drop_write(old);
 out: