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From: Tyler Hicks <code@tyhicks.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	overlayfs <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	LSM <linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Serge E . Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] ecryptfs: fix uid translation for setxattr on security.capability
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2021 10:04:19 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210122160419.GA81247@sequoia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfpegvy4u9cC7SXWqteg54q-96fH3SqqfEybcQtAMxsewAGYg@mail.gmail.com>

On 2021-01-20 08:52:27, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:11 PM Eric W. Biederman
> <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> >
> > Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> writes:
> >
> > > Prior to commit 7c03e2cda4a5 ("vfs: move cap_convert_nscap() call into
> > > vfs_setxattr()") the translation of nscap->rootid did not take stacked
> > > filesystems (overlayfs and ecryptfs) into account.
> > >
> > > That patch fixed the overlay case, but made the ecryptfs case worse.
> > >
> > > Restore old the behavior for ecryptfs that existed before the overlayfs
> > > fix.  This does not fix ecryptfs's handling of complex user namespace
> > > setups, but it does make sure existing setups don't regress.
> >
> > Today vfs_setxattr handles handles a delegated_inode and breaking
> > leases.  Code that is enabled with CONFIG_FILE_LOCKING.  So unless
> > I am missing something this introduces a different regression into
> > ecryptfs.
> 
> This is in line with all the other cases of ecryptfs passing NULL as
> delegated inode.
> 
> I'll defer this to the maintainer of ecryptfs.

eCryptfs cannot be exported so I do not think this proposed fix to
ecryptfs_setxattr() creates a new regression wrt inode delegation.

Tyler

> 
> Thanks,
> Miklos

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-22 17:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-01-19 16:22 [PATCH 0/2] capability conversion fixes Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-19 16:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] ecryptfs: fix uid translation for setxattr on security.capability Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-19 21:06   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-20  7:52     ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-22 16:04       ` Tyler Hicks [this message]
2021-01-22 18:31   ` Tyler Hicks
2021-01-25 13:25     ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-25 13:46       ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-26  1:52       ` Tyler Hicks
2021-01-19 16:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] security.capability: fix conversions on getxattr Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-20  1:34   ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-20  7:58     ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-28 16:58     ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-01-28 20:19       ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-28 20:38         ` Miklos Szeredi
2021-01-28 20:49           ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]         ` <20210129154839.GC1130@mail.hallyn.com>
2021-01-29 22:55           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-30  2:06             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-01-31 18:14               ` Eric W. Biederman
     [not found]       ` <CAJfpegt34fO8tUw8R2_ZxxKHBdBO_-quf+-f3N8aZmS=1oRdvQ@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <20210129153807.GA1130@mail.hallyn.com>
2021-01-29 23:11           ` Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-30  2:04             ` Serge E. Hallyn
2021-01-20 19:37   ` kernel test robot
2021-01-20 21:08   ` kernel test robot
2021-01-19 21:10 ` [PATCH 0/2] capability conversion fixes Eric W. Biederman
2021-01-20  7:39   ` Miklos Szeredi

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