ovl: append MAY_READ when diluting write checks

Right now we remove MAY_WRITE/MAY_APPEND bits from mask if realfile is on
lower/. This is done as files on lower will never be written and will be
copied up. But to copy up a file, mounter should have MAY_READ permission
otherwise copy up will fail. So set MAY_READ in mask when MAY_WRITE is
reset.

Dan Walsh noticed this when he did access(lowerfile, W_OK) and it returned
True (context mounts) but when he tried to actually write to file, it
failed as mounter did not have permission on lower file.

[SzM] don't set MAY_READ if only MAY_APPEND is set without MAY_WRITE; this
won't trigger a copy-up.

Reported-by: Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index 76cfe9d04e64..1b885c156028 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -137,8 +137,11 @@ int ovl_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask)
                 return err;
 
         old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
-        if (!is_upper && !special_file(realinode->i_mode))
+        if (!is_upper && !special_file(realinode->i_mode) && mask & MAY_WRITE) {
                 mask &= ~(MAY_WRITE | MAY_APPEND);
+                /* Make sure mounter can read file for copy up later */
+                mask |= MAY_READ;
+        }
         err = inode_permission(realinode, mask);
         revert_creds(old_cred);