[PATCH v2] ovl: Use current fsuid and fsgid in ovl_link()

From: Zhang Tianci
Date: Thu Aug 25 2022 - 09:08:36 EST


There is a wrong case of link() on overlay:
$ mkdir /lower /fuse /merge
$ mount -t fuse /fuse
$ mkdir /fuse/upper /fuse/work
$ mount -t overlay /merge -o lowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/fuse/upper,\
workdir=work
$ touch /merge/file
$ chown bin.bin /merge/file // the file's caller becomes "bin"
$ ln /merge/file /merge/lnkfile

Then we will get an error(EACCES) because fuse daemon checks the link()'s
caller is "bin", it denied this request.

In the changing history of ovl_link(), there are two key commits:

The first is commit bb0d2b8ad296 ("ovl: fix sgid on directory") which
overrides the cred's fsuid/fsgid using the new inode. The new inode's
owner is initialized by inode_init_owner(), and inode->fsuid is
assigned to the current user. So the override fsuid becomes the
current user. We know link() is actually modifying the directory, so
the caller must have the MAY_WRITE permission on the directory. The
current caller may should have this permission. This is acceptable
to use the caller's fsuid.

The second is commit 51f7e52dc943 ("ovl: share inode for hard link")
which removed the inode creation in ovl_link(). This commit move
inode_init_owner() into ovl_create_object(), so the ovl_link() just
give the old inode to ovl_create_or_link(). Then the override fsuid
becomes the old inode's fsuid, neither the caller nor the overlay's
creator! So this is incorrect.

Fix this bug by using current fsuid/fsgid to do underlying fs's link().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817102951.xnvesg3a7rbv576x@wittgenstein/T

Signed-off-by: Zhang Tianci <zhangtianci.1997@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 16 +++++++++++-----
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 6b03457f72bb..dd84e6fc5f6e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -595,8 +595,8 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
err = -ENOMEM;
override_cred = prepare_creds();
if (override_cred) {
- override_cred->fsuid = inode->i_uid;
- override_cred->fsgid = inode->i_gid;
+ override_cred->fsuid = attr->fsuid;
+ override_cred->fsgid = attr->fsgid;
if (!attr->hardlink) {
err = security_dentry_create_files_as(dentry,
attr->mode, &dentry->d_name, old_cred,
@@ -646,6 +646,8 @@ static int ovl_create_object(struct dentry *dentry, int mode, dev_t rdev,
inode_init_owner(&init_user_ns, inode, dentry->d_parent->d_inode, mode);
attr.mode = inode->i_mode;

+ attr.fsuid = inode->i_uid;
+ attr.fsgid = inode->i_gid;
err = ovl_create_or_link(dentry, inode, &attr, false);
/* Did we end up using the preallocated inode? */
if (inode != d_inode(dentry))
@@ -702,6 +704,7 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old, struct inode *newdir,
{
int err;
struct inode *inode;
+ struct ovl_cattr attr;

err = ovl_want_write(old);
if (err)
@@ -728,9 +731,12 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old, struct inode *newdir,
inode = d_inode(old);
ihold(inode);

- err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode,
- &(struct ovl_cattr) {.hardlink = ovl_dentry_upper(old)},
- ovl_type_origin(old));
+ attr = (struct ovl_cattr) {
+ .hardlink = ovl_dentry_upper(old),
+ .fsuid = current_fsuid(),
+ .fsgid = current_fsgid(),
+ };
+ err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode, &attr, ovl_type_origin(old));
if (err)
iput(inode);

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 87759165d32b..85043123a103 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -655,6 +655,8 @@ struct ovl_cattr {
umode_t mode;
const char *link;
struct dentry *hardlink;
+ kuid_t fsuid;
+ kgid_t fsgid;
};

#define OVL_CATTR(m) (&(struct ovl_cattr) { .mode = (m) })
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