Re: [PATCH 32/34] overlayfs: handle idmapped lower directories

Amir Goldstein
2020-10-30T11:11:11Z

[reducing CC list for overlayfs specific comments]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 2:41 AM Christian Brauner
<christian.brauner@ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
> As an overlay filesystem overlayfs can be mounted on top of other filesystems
> and bind-mounts. This means it can also be bind-mounted on top of one or
> multiple idmapped lower directories and/or an idmapped upper directory.
> In previous patches we've enabled the vfs to handle idmapped mounts and so we
> should have all of the helpers available to let overlayfs handle idmapped
> mounts. To handle such scenarios correctly overlayfs needs to be switched from
> non-idmapped mount aware vfs helpers to idmapped mount aware vfs helpers.
> In order to have overlayfs correctly support idmapped mounts as lower and upper
> directories we need to pass down the mount's user namespace associated with the
> lower and upper directories whenver we perform idmapped mount aware operations.
>
> Luckily, when overlayfs is mounted it creates private mounts of the lower and
> upper directories via clone_private_mount() which calls clone_mnt() internally.
> If any of the lower or upper directories are on an idmapped mount then
> clone_mnt() called in clone_private_mount() will also pin the user namespace
> the vfsmount has been marked with. Overlayfs stashes the information about the
> lower and upper directories and the mounts that they are on so that this
> information can be retrieved when needed. This makes it possible to support
> idmapped mounts as lower and upper directories. Support for idmapped merged
> mounts will be added in a follow-up patch.
>
> Whenever we perform idmap mount aware operations we need to pass down the
> mount's user namespace to the vfs helpers we've introduced in earlier patches.
> Permission checks on the lower and upper directories are performed by switching
> from the inode_permission() and inode_owner_or_capable() helpers to the new
> mapped_inode_permission() and mapped_inode_owner_or_capable() helpers.
> Similarly we switch from non-idmapped mount aware lookup helpers to
> idmapped-mount aware lookup helpers. In all cases where we need to check
> permissions in the lower or upper directories we pass down the mount associated
> with the lower and upper directory at the time of creating the overlayfs mount.
> This nicely lines up with the permission model outlined in the overlayfs
> documentation (Special thanks to Amir for pointing me to this document!).
>
> Thank to Amir for pointing me to the overlayfs permission model documentation!
>
> A very special thank you to my friend Seth Forshee who has given invaluable
> advice when coming up with these patches!
>
> As an example let's create overlayfs mount in the initial user namespace with
> an idmapped lower and upper mount:
>
> # This is a directory where all file ownership starts with uid and gid 10000.
> root@f2-vm:/# ls -al /var/lib/lxc/f1/rootfs
> total 108
> drwxr-xr-x 20 10000 10000 4096 Oct 28 11:13 .
> drwxrwx--- 4 10000 10000 4096 Oct 28 11:17 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 10000 7197 Oct 24 09:45 asdf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 10000 10000 4096 Oct 16 19:07 ASDF
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 10000 10000 7 Sep 24 07:43 bin -> usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 10000 10000 4096 Apr 15 2020 boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 10000 10000 13059 Oct 8 12:38 ccc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 11000 11000 4096 Oct 23 17:10 ddd
> drwxr-xr-x 3 10000 10000 4096 Sep 25 08:04 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 61 10000 10000 4096 Sep 25 08:04 etc
>
> # Create an idmapped mount on the host such that all files owned by uid and
> # gid 10000 show up as being owned by uid 0 and gid 0.
> /mount2 --idmap both:10000:0:10000 /var/lib/lxc/f1/rootfs/ /lower1/
>
> # Verify that the files show up as uid and gid 0 under the idmapped mount at /lower1
> root@f2-vm:/# ls -al /lower1/
> total 108
> drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 Oct 28 11:13 .
> drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Oct 28 11:57 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7197 Oct 24 09:45 asdf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 19:07 ASDF
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 24 07:43 bin -> usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 2020 boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13059 Oct 8 12:38 ccc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 23 17:10 ddd
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:04 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:04 etc
>
> # Create an idmapped upper mount at /upper. Now, files created as id 0 will
> # show up as id 10000 in /upper and files created as id 1000 will show up as
> # id 11000 under /upper.
> /mount2 --idmap both:10000:0:10000 /upper /upper
> mkdir /upper/upper
> mkdir /upper/work
>
> # Create an overlayfs mount.
> mount -t overlay overlay -o lowerdir=/lower1/,upperdir=/upper/upper/,workdir=/upper/work/ /merged/
>
> root@f2-vm:/# ls -al /merged/
> total 124
> drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Oct 25 23:04 .
> drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Oct 28 12:07 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7197 Oct 24 09:45 asdf
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 16 19:07 ASDF
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 Sep 24 07:43 bin -> usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 15 2020 boot
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13059 Oct 8 12:38 ccc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 23 17:10 ddd
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:04 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 61 root root 4096 Sep 25 08:04 etc
>
> # Create a file as as root
> root@f2-vm:/merged# touch /merged/A-FILE
>
> root@f2-vm:/merged# ls -al /merged/A-FILE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Oct 28 12:16 /merged/A-FILE
>
> # Chown the file to a simple user
> root@f2-vm:/merged# chown 1000:1000 /merged/A-FILE
>
> root@f2-vm:/merged# ls -al /merged/A-FILE
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 12:16 /merged/A-FILE
>
> # Create a directory and delegate to simple user
> root@f2-vm:/merged# mkdir /merged/A-DIR
>
> root@f2-vm:/merged# chown 1000:1000 /merged/A-DIR/
>
> # Login as user
> root@f2-vm:/merged# sudo -u ubuntu -- bash -i
>
> # Create a file as simpel user
> ubuntu@f2-vm:/merged$ touch /merged/A-DIR/A-USER-FILE
>
> ubuntu@f2-vm:/merged$ ls -al /merged/A-DIR/A-USER-FILE
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 12:18 /merged/A-DIR/A-USER-FILE
>
> # Let's look at these files in our idmapped upper directory
> ubuntu@f2-vm:/$ ls -alR /upper/upper/
> /upper/upper/:
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 12:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Oct 21 13:48 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 28 12:18 A-DIR
> -rw-r--r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 12:16 A-FILE
>
> /upper/upper/A-DIR:
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ubuntu ubuntu 4096 Oct 28 12:18 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Oct 28 12:23 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 ubuntu ubuntu 0 Oct 28 12:18 A-USER-FILE
>
> # Let's remove the idmapped /upper mount (overlayfs will have it's own private mount anyway)
> umount /upper
>
> # Let's look at these files in our upper directory with the idmapped mount removed
> ubuntu@f2-vm:/$ ls -alR /upper/upper/
> /upper/upper/:
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x 3 10000 10000 4096 Oct 28 12:23 .
> drwxr-xr-x 4 10000 10000 4096 Oct 21 13:48 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 11000 11000 4096 Oct 28 12:18 A-DIR
> -rw-r--r-- 1 11000 11000 0 Oct 28 12:16 A-FILE
>
> /upper/upper/A-DIR:
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x 2 11000 11000 4096 Oct 28 12:18 .
> drwxr-xr-x 3 10000 10000 4096 Oct 28 12:23 ..
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 11000 11000 0 Oct 28 12:18 A-USER-FILE
>
> # Let's create a few acls from the /merged directory on an already existing file
> # triggering a copy-up operation
> root@f2-vm:/merged# setfacl -m u:1000:rwx /merged/asdf
> root@f2-vm:/merged# getfacl /merged/asdf
> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> # file: merged/asdf
> # owner: root
> # group: root
> user::rw-
> user:ubuntu:rwx
> group::r--
> mask::rwx
> other::r--
>
> # Let's look at this file from our upper directory
> root@f2-vm:/merged# getfacl /upper/upper/asdf
> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> # file: upper/upper/asdf
> # owner: 10000
> # group: 10000
> user::rw-
> user:11000:rwx
> group::r--
> mask::rwx
> other::r--
>
> Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
> Cc: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
> ---
> fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 100 +++++++++++++++-----------
> fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 151 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> fs/overlayfs/export.c | 3 +-
> fs/overlayfs/file.c | 23 +++---
> fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 89 ++++++++++++++++++-----
> fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 64 ++++++++++-------
> fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
> fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h | 1 +
> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 34 +++++----
> fs/overlayfs/super.c | 106 ++++++++++++++++++++-------
> fs/overlayfs/util.c | 38 +++++-----
> 11 files changed, 494 insertions(+), 264 deletions(-)
>

Christian,

I think the vfs patches raised some eyebrows, but I can understand why
you started
with the explicit opt-in approach.
If for nothing else, this posting is very educating about all the
places that idmapping
affects.

WRT this overlayfs patch. It takes the same approach as the vfs patched, passing
user_ns all over the place, but there is usually no need for that,
because in most
cases, there is a much less intrusive way to get to the mnt.

Some examples below.

> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> index 955ecd4030f0..1b8721796fd4 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
> @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ static bool ovl_must_copy_xattr(const char *name)
> !strncmp(name, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX, XATTR_SECURITY_PREFIX_LEN);
> }
>
> -int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *old,
> +int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct user_namespace *old_user_ns,
> + struct dentry *old, struct user_namespace *new_user_ns,
> struct dentry *new)

In this helper both callers already have the old path, so can pass it
into the helper.
new is always upper (because we never modify lower), so if you pass
ovl_fs to the helper (we are slowly passing it down to all helpers) you
will have the upper mnt.

> {
> ssize_t list_size, size, value_size = 0;
> @@ -85,9 +86,9 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *old,
> if (ovl_is_private_xattr(sb, name))
> continue;
> retry:
> - size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size);
> + size = vfs_mapped_getxattr(old_user_ns, old, name, value, value_size);
> if (size == -ERANGE)
> - size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, NULL, 0);
> + size = vfs_mapped_getxattr(old_user_ns, old, name, NULL, 0);
>
> if (size < 0) {
> error = size;
> @@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *old,
> error = 0;
> continue; /* Discard */
> }
> - error = vfs_setxattr(new, name, value, size, 0);
> + error = vfs_mapped_setxattr(new_user_ns, new, name, value, size, 0);
> if (error) {
> if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP || ovl_must_copy_xattr(name))
> break;
> @@ -228,17 +229,19 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_data(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct path *old,
> return error;
> }
>
> -static int ovl_set_size(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> +static int ovl_set_size(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> {
> struct iattr attr = {
> .ia_valid = ATTR_SIZE,
> .ia_size = stat->size,
> };
>
> - return notify_change(upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> + return notify_mapped_change(user_ns, upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> }
>
> -static int ovl_set_timestamps(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> +static int ovl_set_timestamps(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> {
> struct iattr attr = {
> .ia_valid =
> @@ -247,10 +250,11 @@ static int ovl_set_timestamps(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> .ia_mtime = stat->mtime,
> };
>
> - return notify_change(upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> + return notify_mapped_change(user_ns, upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> }
>
> -int ovl_set_attr(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> +int ovl_set_attr(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct dentry *upperdentry,
> + struct kstat *stat)
> {
> int err = 0;
>
> @@ -259,7 +263,7 @@ int ovl_set_attr(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> .ia_valid = ATTR_MODE,
> .ia_mode = stat->mode,
> };
> - err = notify_change(upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> + err = notify_mapped_change(user_ns, upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> }
> if (!err) {
> struct iattr attr = {
> @@ -267,10 +271,10 @@ int ovl_set_attr(struct dentry *upperdentry, struct kstat *stat)
> .ia_uid = stat->uid,
> .ia_gid = stat->gid,
> };
> - err = notify_change(upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> + err = notify_mapped_change(user_ns, upperdentry, &attr, NULL);
> }
> if (!err)
> - ovl_set_timestamps(upperdentry, stat);
> + ovl_set_timestamps(user_ns, upperdentry, stat);
>
> return err;
> }

Same to all those helpers that get upperdentry, you can pass ovl_fs.

> @@ -356,8 +360,8 @@ int ovl_set_origin(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *lower,
> }
>
> /* Store file handle of @upper dir in @index dir entry */
> -static int ovl_set_upper_fh(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upper,
> - struct dentry *index)
> +static int ovl_set_upper_fh(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *upper, struct dentry *index)
> {

And here you already have ovl_fs.

> const struct ovl_fh *fh;
> int err;
> @@ -377,7 +381,8 @@ static int ovl_set_upper_fh(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upper,
> *
> * Caller must hold i_mutex on indexdir.
> */
> -static int ovl_create_index(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *origin,
> +static int ovl_create_index(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *origin,
> struct dentry *upper)
> {
> struct dentry *indexdir = ovl_indexdir(dentry->d_sb);
> @@ -406,25 +411,25 @@ static int ovl_create_index(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *origin,
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> - temp = ovl_create_temp(indexdir, OVL_CATTR(S_IFDIR | 0));
> + temp = ovl_create_temp(user_ns, indexdir, OVL_CATTR(S_IFDIR | 0));
> err = PTR_ERR(temp);
> if (IS_ERR(temp))
> goto free_name;
>
> - err = ovl_set_upper_fh(OVL_FS(dentry->d_sb), upper, temp);
> + err = ovl_set_upper_fh(OVL_FS(dentry->d_sb), user_ns, upper, temp);
> if (err)
> goto out;
>
> - index = lookup_one_len(name.name, indexdir, name.len);
> + index = lookup_one_len_mapped(name.name, indexdir, name.len, user_ns);
> if (IS_ERR(index)) {
> err = PTR_ERR(index);
> } else {
> - err = ovl_do_rename(dir, temp, dir, index, 0);
> + err = ovl_do_rename(dir, user_ns, temp, dir, user_ns, index, 0);
> dput(index);
> }
> out:
> if (err)
> - ovl_cleanup(dir, temp);
> + ovl_cleanup(user_ns, dir, temp);
> dput(temp);
> free_name:
> kfree(name.name);
> @@ -441,6 +446,7 @@ struct ovl_copy_up_ctx {
> struct dentry *destdir;
> struct qstr destname;
> struct dentry *workdir;
> + struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> bool origin;
> bool indexed;
> bool metacopy;
> @@ -463,16 +469,17 @@ static int ovl_link_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> return err;
>
> inode_lock_nested(udir, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
> - upper = lookup_one_len(c->dentry->d_name.name, upperdir,
> - c->dentry->d_name.len);
> + upper = lookup_one_len_mapped(c->dentry->d_name.name, upperdir,
> + c->dentry->d_name.len,
> + c->user_ns);
> err = PTR_ERR(upper);
> if (!IS_ERR(upper)) {
> - err = ovl_do_link(ovl_dentry_upper(c->dentry), udir, upper);
> + err = ovl_do_link(c->user_ns, ovl_dentry_upper(c->dentry), udir, upper);
> dput(upper);
>
> if (!err) {
> /* Restore timestamps on parent (best effort) */
> - ovl_set_timestamps(upperdir, &c->pstat);
> + ovl_set_timestamps(c->user_ns, upperdir, &c->pstat);
> ovl_dentry_set_upper_alias(c->dentry);
> }
> }
> @@ -509,7 +516,8 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_inode(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c, struct dentry *temp)
> return err;
> }
>
> - err = ovl_copy_xattr(c->dentry->d_sb, c->lowerpath.dentry, temp);
> + err = ovl_copy_xattr(c->dentry->d_sb, mnt_user_ns(c->lowerpath.mnt),
> + c->lowerpath.dentry, c->user_ns, temp);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> @@ -535,9 +543,9 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_inode(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c, struct dentry *temp)
>
> inode_lock(temp->d_inode);
> if (S_ISREG(c->stat.mode))
> - err = ovl_set_size(temp, &c->stat);
> + err = ovl_set_size(c->user_ns, temp, &c->stat);
> if (!err)
> - err = ovl_set_attr(temp, &c->stat);
> + err = ovl_set_attr(c->user_ns, temp, &c->stat);
> inode_unlock(temp->d_inode);
>
> return err;
> @@ -598,7 +606,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> if (err)
> goto unlock;
>
> - temp = ovl_create_temp(c->workdir, &cattr);
> + temp = ovl_create_temp(c->user_ns, c->workdir, &cattr);
> ovl_revert_cu_creds(&cc);
>
> err = PTR_ERR(temp);
> @@ -610,17 +618,18 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> goto cleanup;
>
> if (S_ISDIR(c->stat.mode) && c->indexed) {
> - err = ovl_create_index(c->dentry, c->lowerpath.dentry, temp);
> + err = ovl_create_index(c->user_ns, c->dentry, c->lowerpath.dentry, temp);
> if (err)
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> - upper = lookup_one_len(c->destname.name, c->destdir, c->destname.len);
> + upper = lookup_one_len_mapped(c->destname.name, c->destdir, c->destname.len,
> + c->user_ns);
> err = PTR_ERR(upper);
> if (IS_ERR(upper))
> goto cleanup;
>
> - err = ovl_do_rename(wdir, temp, udir, upper, 0);
> + err = ovl_do_rename(wdir, c->user_ns, temp, udir, c->user_ns, upper, 0);
> dput(upper);
> if (err)
> goto cleanup;
> @@ -637,7 +646,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> return err;
>
> cleanup:
> - ovl_cleanup(wdir, temp);
> + ovl_cleanup(c->user_ns, wdir, temp);
> dput(temp);
> goto unlock;
> }
> @@ -654,7 +663,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_tmpfile(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> - temp = ovl_do_tmpfile(c->workdir, c->stat.mode);
> + temp = ovl_do_tmpfile(c->user_ns, c->workdir, c->stat.mode);
> ovl_revert_cu_creds(&cc);
>
> if (IS_ERR(temp))
> @@ -666,10 +675,11 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_tmpfile(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
>
> inode_lock_nested(udir, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
>
> - upper = lookup_one_len(c->destname.name, c->destdir, c->destname.len);
> + upper = lookup_one_len_mapped(c->destname.name, c->destdir, c->destname.len,
> + c->user_ns);
> err = PTR_ERR(upper);
> if (!IS_ERR(upper)) {
> - err = ovl_do_link(temp, udir, upper);
> + err = ovl_do_link(c->user_ns, temp, udir, upper);
> dput(upper);
> }
> inode_unlock(udir);
> @@ -757,7 +767,7 @@ static int ovl_do_copy_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
>
> /* Restore timestamps on parent (best effort) */
> inode_lock(udir);
> - ovl_set_timestamps(c->destdir, &c->pstat);
> + ovl_set_timestamps(c->user_ns, c->destdir, &c->pstat);
> inode_unlock(udir);
>
> ovl_dentry_set_upper_alias(c->dentry);
> @@ -786,12 +796,13 @@ static bool ovl_need_meta_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode,
> return true;
> }
>
> -static ssize_t ovl_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, char **value)
> +static ssize_t ovl_getxattr(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *dentry, char *name, char **value)
> {
> ssize_t res;
> char *buf;
>
> - res = vfs_getxattr(dentry, name, NULL, 0);
> + res = vfs_mapped_getxattr(user_ns, dentry, name, NULL, 0);
> if (res == -ENODATA || res == -EOPNOTSUPP)
> res = 0;
>
> @@ -800,7 +811,7 @@ static ssize_t ovl_getxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *name, char **value)
> if (!buf)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
> - res = vfs_getxattr(dentry, name, buf, res);
> + res = vfs_mapped_getxattr(user_ns, dentry, name, buf, res);
> if (res < 0)
> kfree(buf);
> else
> @@ -814,6 +825,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> {
> struct ovl_fs *ofs = OVL_FS(c->dentry->d_sb);
> struct path upperpath, datapath;
> + struct user_namespace *user_ns;
> int err;
> char *capability = NULL;
> ssize_t cap_size;
> @@ -827,8 +839,8 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> return -EIO;
>
> if (c->stat.size) {
> - err = cap_size = ovl_getxattr(upperpath.dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
> - &capability);
> + err = cap_size = ovl_getxattr(c->user_ns, upperpath.dentry,
> + XATTR_NAME_CAPS, &capability);
> if (cap_size < 0)
> goto out;
> }
> @@ -841,9 +853,10 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_meta_inode_data(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
> * Writing to upper file will clear security.capability xattr. We
> * don't want that to happen for normal copy-up operation.
> */
> + user_ns = mnt_user_ns(upperpath.mnt);
> if (capability) {
> - err = vfs_setxattr(upperpath.dentry, XATTR_NAME_CAPS,
> - capability, cap_size, 0);
> + err = vfs_mapped_setxattr(user_ns, upperpath.dentry,
> + XATTR_NAME_CAPS, capability, cap_size, 0);
> if (err)
> goto out_free;
> }
> @@ -887,6 +900,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
> ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath);
> ctx.destdir = parentpath.dentry;
> ctx.destname = dentry->d_name;
> + ctx.user_ns = mnt_user_ns(parentpath.mnt);
>
> err = vfs_getattr(&parentpath, &ctx.pstat,
> STATX_ATIME | STATX_MTIME,
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> index 28a075b5f5b2..23d09de00957 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
> @@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(redirect_max,
>
> static int ovl_set_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, bool samedir);
>
> -int ovl_cleanup(struct inode *wdir, struct dentry *wdentry)
> +int ovl_cleanup(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct inode *wdir,
> + struct dentry *wdentry)

I think this one and lookup_temp should also pass ovl_fs, but
need to be careful when they are called from ovl_fill_super()
that upper_mnt is already assigned (should be).

> {
> int err;
>
> dget(wdentry);
> if (d_is_dir(wdentry))
> - err = ovl_do_rmdir(wdir, wdentry);
> + err = ovl_do_rmdir(user_ns, wdir, wdentry);
> else
> - err = ovl_do_unlink(wdir, wdentry);
> + err = ovl_do_unlink(user_ns, wdir, wdentry);
> dput(wdentry);
>
> if (err) {
> @@ -42,7 +43,8 @@ int ovl_cleanup(struct inode *wdir, struct dentry *wdentry)
> return err;
> }
>
> -struct dentry *ovl_lookup_temp(struct dentry *workdir)
> +struct dentry *ovl_lookup_temp(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct dentry *workdir)
> {
> struct dentry *temp;
> char name[20];
> @@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup_temp(struct dentry *workdir)
> /* counter is allowed to wrap, since temp dentries are ephemeral */
> snprintf(name, sizeof(name), "#%x", atomic_inc_return(&temp_id));
>
> - temp = lookup_one_len(name, workdir, strlen(name));
> + temp = lookup_one_len_mapped(name, workdir, strlen(name), user_ns);
> if (!IS_ERR(temp) && temp->d_inode) {
> pr_err("workdir/%s already exists\n", name);
> dput(temp);
> @@ -68,13 +70,14 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_whiteout(struct ovl_fs *ofs)
> struct dentry *whiteout;
> struct dentry *workdir = ofs->workdir;
> struct inode *wdir = workdir->d_inode;
> + struct user_namespace *user_ns = ovl_upper_mnt_user_ns(ofs);
>
> if (!ofs->whiteout) {
> - whiteout = ovl_lookup_temp(workdir);
> + whiteout = ovl_lookup_temp(user_ns, workdir);
> if (IS_ERR(whiteout))
> goto out;
>
> - err = ovl_do_whiteout(wdir, whiteout);
> + err = ovl_do_whiteout(user_ns, wdir, whiteout);
> if (err) {
> dput(whiteout);
> whiteout = ERR_PTR(err);
> @@ -84,11 +87,11 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_whiteout(struct ovl_fs *ofs)
> }
>
> if (ofs->share_whiteout) {
> - whiteout = ovl_lookup_temp(workdir);
> + whiteout = ovl_lookup_temp(user_ns, workdir);
> if (IS_ERR(whiteout))
> goto out;
>
> - err = ovl_do_link(ofs->whiteout, wdir, whiteout);
> + err = ovl_do_link(user_ns, ofs->whiteout, wdir, whiteout);
> if (!err)
> goto out;
>
> @@ -110,6 +113,7 @@ int ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct inode *dir,
> struct dentry *dentry)
> {
> struct inode *wdir = ofs->workdir->d_inode;
> + struct user_namespace *user_ns = ovl_upper_mnt_user_ns(ofs);
> struct dentry *whiteout;
> int err;
> int flags = 0;
> @@ -122,28 +126,28 @@ int ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct inode *dir,
> if (d_is_dir(dentry))
> flags = RENAME_EXCHANGE;
>
> - err = ovl_do_rename(wdir, whiteout, dir, dentry, flags);
> + err = ovl_do_rename(wdir, user_ns, whiteout, dir, user_ns, dentry, flags);
> if (err)
> goto kill_whiteout;
> if (flags)
> - ovl_cleanup(wdir, dentry);
> + ovl_cleanup(user_ns, wdir, dentry);
>
> out:
> dput(whiteout);
> return err;
>
> kill_whiteout:
> - ovl_cleanup(wdir, whiteout);
> + ovl_cleanup(user_ns, wdir, whiteout);
> goto out;
> }
>
> -static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry,
> - umode_t mode)
> +static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct inode *dir,
> + struct dentry **newdentry, umode_t mode)
> {
> int err;
> struct dentry *d, *dentry = *newdentry;
>
> - err = ovl_do_mkdir(dir, dentry, mode);
> + err = ovl_do_mkdir(user_ns, dir, dentry, mode);
> if (err)
> return err;
>
> @@ -155,8 +159,8 @@ static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry,
> * to it unhashed and negative. If that happens, try to
> * lookup a new hashed and positive dentry.
> */
> - d = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_parent,
> - dentry->d_name.len);
> + d = lookup_one_len_mapped(dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_parent,
> + dentry->d_name.len, user_ns);
> if (IS_ERR(d)) {
> pr_warn("failed lookup after mkdir (%pd2, err=%i).\n",
> dentry, err);
> @@ -168,7 +172,8 @@ static int ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry **newdentry,
> return 0;
> }
>
> -struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
> +struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct user_namespace *user_ns,
> + struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
> struct ovl_cattr *attr)
> {
> int err;
> @@ -181,28 +186,28 @@ struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
> goto out;
>
> if (attr->hardlink) {
> - err = ovl_do_link(attr->hardlink, dir, newdentry);
> + err = ovl_do_link(user_ns, attr->hardlink, dir, newdentry);
> } else {
> switch (attr->mode & S_IFMT) {
> case S_IFREG:
> - err = ovl_do_create(dir, newdentry, attr->mode);
> + err = ovl_do_create(user_ns, dir, newdentry, attr->mode);
> break;
>
> case S_IFDIR:
> /* mkdir is special... */
> - err = ovl_mkdir_real(dir, &newdentry, attr->mode);
> + err = ovl_mkdir_real(user_ns, dir, &newdentry, attr->mode);
> break;
>
> case S_IFCHR:
> case S_IFBLK:
> case S_IFIFO:
> case S_IFSOCK:
> - err = ovl_do_mknod(dir, newdentry, attr->mode,
> + err = ovl_do_mknod(user_ns, dir, newdentry, attr->mode,
> attr->rdev);
> break;
>
> case S_IFLNK:
> - err = ovl_do_symlink(dir, newdentry, attr->link);
> + err = ovl_do_symlink(user_ns, dir, newdentry, attr->link);
> break;
>
> default:
> @@ -224,10 +229,11 @@ struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry,
> return newdentry;
> }
>

ovl_fs to all those create helpers

> -struct dentry *ovl_create_temp(struct dentry *workdir, struct ovl_cattr *attr)
> +struct dentry *ovl_create_temp(struct user_namespace *user_ns, struct dentry *workdir,
> + struct ovl_cattr *attr)

Not only should this get ovl_fs, but workdir could be later taken from
ofs->workdir.
It's subtle because there is one caller ovl_create_index() that needs special
care so leave that cleanup to me.

Anyway, I think you get the idea, but I am jumping ahead of myself.
Let's wait and see how the vfs patches play out.

One naive question:

If we want to avoid all the vfs API churn we can store the mnt_user_ns
in current cred.
Overlayfs can prepare at mount time one cred copy per layer and in
ovl_override_creds()
we can pass the ovl_layer id.
In some functions, such as ovl_looup() that access several layers, we
will need to take
care of overriding different creds per layer.

The concerns raised about storing userns in current wrt io_uring are
not relevant
for overlayfs access to underlying layers.

I know you and others have listed some use cases that are not
involving overlayfs,
but perhaps as a first step, this approach will be a much easier sell
and can cover
some of the use cases?

Also, if this is an interesting direction, there is no problem to
allow an overlayfs
configuration with no lower layers (just upper). I have a patch somewhere.
From user experience POV it would be just like shiftfs, but all the
implementation
would be in vfs and userns will be attached to vfs mounts - overlayfs
will just play
the role of storing the private mount clone and overriding credentials
before access
to the private mount.

Thanks,
Amir.