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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2020-12-14 15:26:14 +0100
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2020-12-14 15:26:14 +0100
commit459c7c565ac36ba09ffbf24231147f408fde4203 (patch)
tree2806289c44bad81d9ac26f8f217c6306c69d32e4 /fs/overlayfs
parent87b2c60c6127eaa3b33f3e4c4166f6af80e1aaa9 (diff)
downloadlinux-459c7c565ac36ba09ffbf24231147f408fde4203.tar.bz2
ovl: unprivieged mounts
Enable unprivileged user namespace mounts of overlayfs. Overlayfs's permission model (*) ensures that the mounter itself cannot gain additional privileges by the act of creating an overlayfs mount. This feature request is coming from the "rootless" container crowd. (*) Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt#Permission model Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 6366adf81fa3..2bd570cbe8a4 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -2096,6 +2096,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_mount(struct file_system_type *fs_type, int flags,
static struct file_system_type ovl_fs_type = {
.owner = THIS_MODULE,
.name = "overlay",
+ .fs_flags = FS_USERNS_MOUNT,
.mount = ovl_mount,
.kill_sb = kill_anon_super,
};