[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 110/128] ovl: fix permission checking for setattr

[Kamal Mostafa]

3.19.8-ckt12 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit acff81ec2c79492b180fade3c2894425cd35a545 upstream.

[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 <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 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 07d74b2..8525e67 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:
-- 
1.9.1

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