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) }) -- 2.32.1 (Apple Git-133)