[PATCH] ovl: skip getxattr of security labels

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

When inode has no listxattr op of its own (e.g. squashfs) vfs_listxattr
calls the LSM inode_listsecurity hooks to list the xattrs that LSMs will
intercept in inode_getxattr hooks.

When selinux LSM is installed but not initialized, it will list the
security.selinux xattr in inode_listsecurity, but will not intercept it
in inode_getxattr.  This results in -ENODATA for a getxattr call for an
xattr returned by listxattr.

This situation was manifested as overlayfs failure to copy up lower
files from squashfs when selinux is built-in but not initialized,
because ovl_copy_xattr() iterates the lower inode xattrs by
vfs_listxattr() and vfs_getxattr().

ovl_copy_xattr() skips copy up of security labels that are indentified by
inode_copy_up_xattr LSM hooks, but it does that after vfs_getxattr().
Since we are not going to copy them, skip vfs_getxattr() of the security
labels.

Reported-by: Michael Labriola <michael.d.labriola@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Michael Labriola <michael.d.labriola@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/2nv9d47zt7.fsf@aldarion.sourceruckus.org/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---

Miklos,

This is a workaround for a v5.9 selinux related regression reported by
Michael that caused copy up failure is a very specific configuration
involving lower squashfs and built-in but disabled selinux.

I've sent the bug fix to selinux list, so this patch is complementary.
I removed the stable/Fixes tags, because this patch does not cleanly
apply to v5.9 and is not the real bug fix.

Thanks,
Amir.

 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index e5b616c93e11..0fed532efa68 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *old,
 
 		if (ovl_is_private_xattr(sb, name))
 			continue;
+
+		error = security_inode_copy_up_xattr(name);
+		if (error < 0 && error != -EOPNOTSUPP)
+			break;
+		if (error == 1) {
+			error = 0;
+			continue; /* Discard */
+		}
 retry:
 		size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size);
 		if (size == -ERANGE)
@@ -107,13 +115,6 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct super_block *sb, struct dentry *old,
 			goto retry;
 		}
 
-		error = security_inode_copy_up_xattr(name);
-		if (error < 0 && error != -EOPNOTSUPP)
-			break;
-		if (error == 1) {
-			error = 0;
-			continue; /* Discard */
-		}
 		error = vfs_setxattr(new, name, value, size, 0);
 		if (error) {
 			if (error != -EOPNOTSUPP || ovl_must_copy_xattr(name))
-- 
2.25.1