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* [PATCH for v4.4] ovl: copy new uid/gid into overlayfs runtime inode
@ 2016-03-12 13:03 Miklos Szeredi
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From: Miklos Szeredi @ 2016-03-12 13:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: koct9i

From: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2016 16:21:29 +0300

commit b81de061fa59f17d2730aabb1b84419ef3913810 upstream.

Overlayfs must update uid/gid after chown, otherwise functions
like inode_owner_or_capable() will check user against stale uid.
Catched by xfstests generic/087, it chowns file and calls utimes.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s
 
 		mutex_lock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 		err = notify_change(upperdentry, attr, NULL);
+		if (!err)
+			ovl_copyattr(upperdentry->d_inode, dentry->d_inode);
 		mutex_unlock(&upperdentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
 	}
 	ovl_drop_write(dentry);

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