From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77C87C04AAA for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 17:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FFB22081C for ; Fri, 3 May 2019 17:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726480AbfECRvN (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2019 13:51:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:46512 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726468AbfECRvN (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 May 2019 13:51:13 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx05.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.15]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01CD381E0F; Fri, 3 May 2019 17:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from horse.redhat.com (unknown [10.18.25.234]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A001C7BA12; Fri, 3 May 2019 17:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by horse.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 10451) id 3819E220CB9; Fri, 3 May 2019 13:51:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 3 May 2019 13:51:12 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Amir Goldstein Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" , NeilBrown , Andreas Gruenbacher , Miklos Szeredi , Andreas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=FCnbacher?= , Patrick Plagwitz , "linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" , Linux NFS list , Linux FS-devel Mailing List , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] overlayfs: ignore empty NFSv4 ACLs in ext4 upperdir Message-ID: <20190503175112.GB8014@redhat.com> References: <20161206185806.GC31197@fieldses.org> <87bm0l4nra.fsf@notabene.neil.brown.name> <20190503153531.GJ12608@fieldses.org> <20190503173133.GB14954@fieldses.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.15 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.25]); Fri, 03 May 2019 17:51:13 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-nfs-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 01:41:25PM -0400, Amir Goldstein wrote: > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 1:31 PM J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > On Fri, May 03, 2019 at 01:26:01PM -0400, Amir Goldstein wrote: > > > On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 12:03 PM J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > > > > On Thu, May 02, 2019 at 12:02:33PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Dec 06 2016, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 02:18:31PM +0100, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > > > > > >> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > > > >> > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 12:24 AM, Andreas Grünbacher > > > > > >> > wrote: > > > > > >> >> 2016-12-06 0:19 GMT+01:00 Andreas Grünbacher : > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> >>> It's not hard to come up with a heuristic that determines if a > > > > > >> >>> system.nfs4_acl value is equivalent to a file mode, and to ignore the > > > > > >> >>> attribute in that case. (The file mode is transmitted in its own > > > > > >> >>> attribute already, so actually converting .) That way, overlayfs could > > > > > >> >>> still fail copying up files that have an actual ACL. It's still an > > > > > >> >>> ugly hack ... > > > > > >> >> > > > > > >> >> Actually, that kind of heuristic would make sense in the NFS client > > > > > >> >> which could then hide the "system.nfs4_acl" attribute. > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > Even simpler would be if knfsd didn't send the attribute if not > > > > > >> > necessary. Looks like there's code actively creating the nfs4_acl on > > > > > >> > the wire even if the filesystem had none: > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > pacl = get_acl(inode, ACL_TYPE_ACCESS); > > > > > >> > if (!pacl) > > > > > >> > pacl = posix_acl_from_mode(inode->i_mode, GFP_KERNEL); > > > > > >> > > > > > > >> > What's the point? > > > > > >> > > > > > >> That's how the protocol is specified. > > > > > > > > > > > > Yep, even if we could make that change to nfsd it wouldn't help the > > > > > > client with the large number of other servers that are out there > > > > > > (including older knfsd's). > > > > > > > > > > > > --b. > > > > > > > > > > > >> (I'm not saying that that's very helpful.) > > > > > >> > > > > > >> Andreas > > > > > > > > > > Hi everyone..... > > > > > I have a customer facing this problem, and so stumbled onto the email > > > > > thread. > > > > > Unfortunately it didn't resolve anything. Maybe I can help kick things > > > > > along??? > > > > > > > > > > The core problem here is that NFSv4 and ext4 use different and largely > > > > > incompatible ACL implementations. There is no way to accurately > > > > > translate from one to the other in general (common specific examples > > > > > can be converted). > > > > > > > > > > This means that either: > > > > > 1/ overlayfs cannot use ext4 for upper and NFS for lower (or vice > > > > > versa) or > > > > > 2/ overlayfs need to accept that sometimes it cannot copy ACLs, and > > > > > that is OK. > > > > > > > > > > Silently not copying the ACLs is probably not a good idea as it might > > > > > result in inappropriate permissions being given away. So if the > > > > > sysadmin wants this (and some clearly do), they need a way to > > > > > explicitly say "I accept the risk". > > > > > > > > So, I feel like silently copying ACLs up *also* carries a risk, if that > > > > means switching from server-enforcement to client-enforcement of those > > > > permissions. > > > > > > > > Sorry, I know we had another thread recently about permissions in this > > > > situation, and I've forgotten the conclusion. > > > > > > > > Out of curiosity, what's done with selinux labels? > > > > > > > > > > overlayfs calls security_inode_copy_up_xattr(name) which > > > can fail (<0) allow (0) or skip(1). > > > > > > selinux_inode_copy_up_xattr() as well as smack_inode_copy_up_xattr() > > > skip their own xattr on copy up and fail any other xattr copy up. > > > > If it's OK to silently skip copying up security labels, maybe it's OK to > > silently skip NFSv4 ACLs too? > > > > I think overlayfs inode security context is taken from overlayfs > mount parameters (i.e. per container context) and therefore > the lower security. xattr are ignored (CC Vivek). If mount was done with "context=" option, then it is used otherwise selinux security context comes from real inode xattr (lower/upper). Thanks Vivek