[PATCH v2 10/10] ovl: unprivieged mounts

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Mon Dec 07 2020 - 11:35:33 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 189380b946be..019e6f1834b0 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -2073,6 +2073,7 @@ 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,
};
--
2.26.2