Re: [PATCH][v2] selinux: Allow context mounts for unpriviliged overlayfs

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On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 1:03 PM Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Now overlayfs allow unpriviliged mounts. That is root inside a non-init
> user namespace can mount overlayfs. This is being added in 5.11 kernel.
>
> Giuseppe tried to mount overlayfs with option "context" and it failed
> with error -EACCESS.
>
> $ su test
> $ unshare -rm
> $ mkdir -p lower upper work merged
> $ mount -t overlay -o lowerdir=lower,workdir=work,upperdir=upper,userxattr,context='system_u:object_r:container_file_t:s0' none merged
>
> This fails with -EACCESS. It works if option "-o context" is not specified.
>
> Little debugging showed that selinux_set_mnt_opts() returns -EACCESS.
>
> So this patch adds "overlay" to the list, where it is fine to specific
> context from non init_user_ns.
>
> v2: Fixed commit message to reflect that unpriveleged overlayfs mount is
>     being added in 5.11 and not in 5.10 kernel.
>
> Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  security/selinux/hooks.c |    3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Thanks Vivek, once the merge window closes I'll merge this into
selinux/next and send a note to this thread.

-- 
paul moore
www.paul-moore.com




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