Re: [PATCH 4/5] evm: Use the real inode's metadata to calculate metadata hash

Amir Goldstein
2024-02-02T15:51:52Z

On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 4:59 PM Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
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> On 2/2/24 04:24, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 1, 2024 at 10:35 PM Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
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> >> and your suggested change to this patch :
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> >> - struct inode *inode = d_real_inode(dentry);
> >> + struct inode *inode = d_inode(d_real(dentry, false));;
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> >
> > In the new version I change the API to use an enum instead of bool, e.g.:
> >
> > struct inode *inode = d_inode(d_real(dentry, D_REAL_METADATA));
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> Thanks. I will use it.
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> >
> > This catches in build time and in run time, callers that were not converted
> > to the new API.
> >
> >> The test cases are now passing with and without metacopy enabled. Yay!
> >
> > Too soon to be happy.
> > I guess you are missing a test for the following case:
> > 1. file was meta copied up (change is detected)
> > 2. the lower file that contains the data is being changed (change is
> > not detected)
>
> Right. Though it seems there's something wrong with overlayfs as well
> after appending a byte to the file on the lower.
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> -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 25 Feb 2 14:55
> /ext4.mount/lower/test_rsa_portable2
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 24 Feb 2 14:55
> /ext4.mount/overlay/test_rsa_portable2
> bb16aa5350bcc8863da1a873c846fec9281842d9
> /ext4.mount/lower/test_rsa_portable2
> bb16aa5350bcc8863da1a873c846fec9281842d9
> /ext4.mount/overlay/test_rsa_portable2
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> We have a hash collision on a file with 24 bytes and the underlying one
> with 25 byte. (-; :-)

https://docs.kernel.org/filesystems/overlayfs.html#changes-to-underlying-filesystems

If you modify the lower file underneath overlayfs, you get no
guarantee from overlayfs about expected results.

This makes your work more challenging.

Thanks,
Amir.