Commit 6742cee0 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi
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Revert "ovl: don't allow writing ioctl on lower layer"



This reverts commit 7c6893e3.

Overlayfs no longer relies on the vfs for checking writability of files.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
parent d561f218
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@@ -80,10 +80,8 @@ extern void __init mnt_init(void);

extern int __mnt_want_write(struct vfsmount *);
extern int __mnt_want_write_file(struct file *);
extern int mnt_want_write_file_path(struct file *);
extern void __mnt_drop_write(struct vfsmount *);
extern void __mnt_drop_write_file(struct file *);
extern void mnt_drop_write_file_path(struct file *);

/*
 * fs_struct.c
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@@ -430,73 +430,21 @@ int __mnt_want_write_file(struct file *file)
		return mnt_clone_write(file->f_path.mnt);
}

/**
 * mnt_want_write_file_path - get write access to a file's mount
 * @file: the file who's mount on which to take a write
 *
 * This is like mnt_want_write, but it takes a file and can
 * do some optimisations if the file is open for write already
 *
 * Called by the vfs for cases when we have an open file at hand, but will do an
 * inode operation on it (important distinction for files opened on overlayfs,
 * since the file operations will come from the real underlying file, while
 * inode operations come from the overlay).
 */
int mnt_want_write_file_path(struct file *file)
{
	int ret;

	sb_start_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb);
	ret = __mnt_want_write_file(file);
	if (ret)
		sb_end_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb);
	return ret;
}

static inline int may_write_real(struct file *file)
{
	struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
	struct dentry *upperdentry;

	/* Writable file? */
	if (file->f_mode & FMODE_WRITER)
		return 0;

	/* Not overlayfs? */
	if (likely(!(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL)))
		return 0;

	/* File refers to upper, writable layer? */
	upperdentry = d_real(dentry, NULL, 0, D_REAL_UPPER);
	if (upperdentry && file_inode(file) == d_inode(upperdentry))
		return 0;

	/* Lower layer: can't write to real file, sorry... */
	return -EPERM;
}

/**
 * mnt_want_write_file - get write access to a file's mount
 * @file: the file who's mount on which to take a write
 *
 * This is like mnt_want_write, but it takes a file and can
 * do some optimisations if the file is open for write already
 *
 * Mostly called by filesystems from their ioctl operation before performing
 * modification.  On overlayfs this needs to check if the file is on a read-only
 * lower layer and deny access in that case.
 */
int mnt_want_write_file(struct file *file)
{
	int ret;

	ret = may_write_real(file);
	if (!ret) {
		sb_start_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb);
	sb_start_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb);
	ret = __mnt_want_write_file(file);
	if (ret)
			sb_end_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb);
	}
		sb_end_write(file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb);
	return ret;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mnt_want_write_file);
@@ -536,15 +484,9 @@ void __mnt_drop_write_file(struct file *file)
	__mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
}

void mnt_drop_write_file_path(struct file *file)
{
	mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
}

void mnt_drop_write_file(struct file *file)
{
	__mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
	sb_end_write(file_inode(file)->i_sb);
	mnt_drop_write(file->f_path.mnt);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mnt_drop_write_file);

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@@ -707,12 +707,12 @@ int ksys_fchown(unsigned int fd, uid_t user, gid_t group)
	if (!f.file)
		goto out;

	error = mnt_want_write_file_path(f.file);
	error = mnt_want_write_file(f.file);
	if (error)
		goto out_fput;
	audit_file(f.file);
	error = chown_common(&f.file->f_path, user, group);
	mnt_drop_write_file_path(f.file);
	mnt_drop_write_file(f.file);
out_fput:
	fdput(f);
out:
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@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@
#include <linux/posix_acl_xattr.h>

#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include "internal.h"

static const char *
strcmp_prefix(const char *a, const char *a_prefix)
@@ -501,10 +500,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE5(fsetxattr, int, fd, const char __user *, name,
	if (!f.file)
		return error;
	audit_file(f.file);
	error = mnt_want_write_file_path(f.file);
	error = mnt_want_write_file(f.file);
	if (!error) {
		error = setxattr(f.file->f_path.dentry, name, value, size, flags);
		mnt_drop_write_file_path(f.file);
		mnt_drop_write_file(f.file);
	}
	fdput(f);
	return error;
@@ -733,10 +732,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fremovexattr, int, fd, const char __user *, name)
	if (!f.file)
		return error;
	audit_file(f.file);
	error = mnt_want_write_file_path(f.file);
	error = mnt_want_write_file(f.file);
	if (!error) {
		error = removexattr(f.file->f_path.dentry, name);
		mnt_drop_write_file_path(f.file);
		mnt_drop_write_file(f.file);
	}
	fdput(f);
	return error;