[PATCH AUTOSEL 5.18 27/39] ovl: warn if trusted xattr creation fails

Sasha Levin
2022-08-14T16:33:14Z

From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit b10b85fe5149ee8b39fbbf86095b303632dde2cd ]

When mounting overlayfs in an unprivileged user namespace, trusted xattr
creation will fail. This will lead to failures in some file operations,
e.g. in the following situation:

mkdir lower upper work merged
mkdir lower/directory
mount -toverlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work none merged
rmdir merged/directory
mkdir merged/directory

The last mkdir will fail:

mkdir: cannot create directory 'merged/directory': Input/output error

The cause for these failures is currently extremely non-obvious and hard to
debug. Hence, warn the user and suggest using the userxattr mount option,
if it is not already supplied and xattr creation fails during the
self-check.

Reported-by: Alois Wohlschlager <alois1@gmx-topmail.de>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
---
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 001cdbb8f015..f3c13eca5270 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1413,11 +1413,12 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
*/
err = ovl_do_setxattr(ofs, ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE, "0", 1);
if (err) {
+ pr_warn("failed to set xattr on upper\n");
ofs->noxattr = true;
if (ofs->config.index || ofs->config.metacopy) {
ofs->config.index = false;
ofs->config.metacopy = false;
- pr_warn("upper fs does not support xattr, falling back to index=off,metacopy=off.\n");
+ pr_warn("...falling back to index=off,metacopy=off.\n");
}
/*
* xattr support is required for persistent st_ino.
@@ -1425,8 +1426,10 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
*/
if (ofs->config.xino == OVL_XINO_AUTO) {
ofs->config.xino = OVL_XINO_OFF;
- pr_warn("upper fs does not support xattr, falling back to xino=off.\n");
+ pr_warn("...falling back to xino=off.\n");
}
+ if (err == -EPERM && !ofs->config.userxattr)
+ pr_info("try mounting with 'userxattr' option\n");
err = 0;
} else {
ovl_do_removexattr(ofs, ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE);
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