Re: [PATCH v3] ovl: Use ovl mounter's fsuid and fsgid in ovl_link()

[Zhang Tianci]

Hello Miklos,

Gentle ping...

Thanks,
Tianci

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 4:29 PM Zhang Tianci
<zhangtianci.1997@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
> mounter! So this is incorrect.
>
> Fix this bug by using ovl mounter's fsuid/fsgid to do underlying
> fs's link().
>
> v1: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220817102952.xnvesg3a7rbv576x@wittgenstein/T
> v2: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220825130552.29587-1-zhangtianci.1997@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/t
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Tianci <zhangtianci.1997@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> index 6b03457f72bb..c3032cef391e 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> @@ -592,28 +592,42 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
>                         goto out_revert_creds;
>         }
>
> -       err = -ENOMEM;
> -       override_cred = prepare_creds();
> -       if (override_cred) {
> +       if (!attr->hardlink) {
> +               err = -ENOMEM;
> +               override_cred = prepare_creds();
> +               if (!override_cred)
> +                       goto out_revert_creds;
> +               /*
> +                * In the creation cases(create, mkdir, mknod, symlink),
> +                * ovl should transfer current's fs{u,g}id to underlying
> +                * fs. Because underlying fs want to initialize its new
> +                * inode owner using current's fs{u,g}id. And in this
> +                * case, the @inode is a new inode that is initialized
> +                * in inode_init_owner() to current's fs{u,g}id. So use
> +                * the inode's i_{u,g}id to override the cred's fs{u,g}id.
> +                *
> +                * But in the other hardlink case, ovl_link() does not
> +                * create a new inode, so just use the ovl mounter's
> +                * fs{u,g}id.
> +                */
>                 override_cred->fsuid = inode->i_uid;
>                 override_cred->fsgid = inode->i_gid;
> -               if (!attr->hardlink) {
> -                       err = security_dentry_create_files_as(dentry,
> -                                       attr->mode, &dentry->d_name, old_cred,
> -                                       override_cred);
> -                       if (err) {
> -                               put_cred(override_cred);
> -                               goto out_revert_creds;
> -                       }
> +               err = security_dentry_create_files_as(dentry,
> +                               attr->mode, &dentry->d_name, old_cred,
> +                               override_cred);
> +               if (err) {
> +                       put_cred(override_cred);
> +                       goto out_revert_creds;
>                 }
>                 put_cred(override_creds(override_cred));
>                 put_cred(override_cred);
> -
> -               if (!ovl_dentry_is_whiteout(dentry))
> -                       err = ovl_create_upper(dentry, inode, attr);
> -               else
> -                       err = ovl_create_over_whiteout(dentry, inode, attr);
>         }
> +
> +       if (!ovl_dentry_is_whiteout(dentry))
> +               err = ovl_create_upper(dentry, inode, attr);
> +       else
> +               err = ovl_create_over_whiteout(dentry, inode, attr);
> +
>  out_revert_creds:
>         revert_creds(old_cred);
>         return err;
> --
> 2.32.1 (Apple Git-133)
>