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From: "Alexander Ivanov" <amivanov@fastmail.com>
To: linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org
Subject: protecting overlayfs's lower consistently.
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2020 10:31:04 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <91958250-142b-4ceb-877c-3dd9036c7a9c@www.fastmail.com> (raw)

We have LSM that implements file_open call back to protect fs object based on path. Now, supposed are to protect /mnt/l in the following setup

mount -t overlay -orw,lowerdir=/mnt/l,upperdir=/mnt/u,workdir=/mnt/w none /mnt/m

However, when one attempts to change the upper (for the objects that originates on lower) the dentry passed into vfs_open() and then to do_dentry_open() points to the lower and there seems no easy way to calculate its upper. It

This seems was different in older kernels, eg. 3.10 (rhel7). The changes the seemingly broke that behaviour happened around kernel 4.4. What was a reason for that change and is there anyway to figure out the upper given the lower passed into vfs_open()?

Thanks,
--Alex

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