ovl: ignore permissions on underlying lookup Generally permission checking is not necessary when overlayfs looks up a dentry on one of the underlying layers, since search permission on base directory was already checked in ovl_permission(). More specifically using lookup_one_len() causes a problem when the lower directory lacks search permission for a specific user while the upper directory does have search permission. Since lookups are cached, this causes inconsistency in behavior: success depends on who did the first lookup. So instead use lookup_hash() which doesn't do the permission check. Reported-by: Ignacy Gawędzki <ignacy.gawedzki@green-communications.fr> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 5d972e6..791235e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -411,9 +411,7 @@ { struct dentry *dentry; - inode_lock(dir->d_inode); - dentry = lookup_one_len(name->name, dir, name->len); - inode_unlock(dir->d_inode); + dentry = lookup_hash(name, dir); if (IS_ERR(dentry)) { if (PTR_ERR(dentry) == -ENOENT)