From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 4.1 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== [ Upstream commit acff81ec2c79492b180fade3c2894425cd35a545 ] [Al Viro] The bug is in being too enthusiastic about optimizing ->setattr() away - instead of "copy verbatim with metadata" + "chmod/chown/utimes" (with the former being always safe and the latter failing in case of insufficient permissions) it tries to combine these two. Note that copyup itself will have to do ->setattr() anyway; _that_ is where the elevated capabilities are right. Having these two ->setattr() (one to set verbatim copy of metadata, another to do what overlayfs ->setattr() had been asked to do in the first place) combined is where it breaks. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index e505b44..edd2a4a 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -62,15 +62,15 @@ int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr) if (err) goto out; - upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); - if (upperdentry) { + err = ovl_copy_up(dentry); + if (!err) { + upperdentry = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); + mutex_lock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex); err = notify_change(upperdentry, attr, NULL); if (!err) ovl_copyattr(upperdentry->d_inode, dentry->d_inode); mutex_unlock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex); - } else { - err = ovl_copy_up_last(dentry, attr, false); } ovl_drop_write(dentry); out: -- 2.5.0 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html