tree b09b3822e1956a0c0231ed9fec181865204855c4
parent 5f65e5ca286126a60f62c8421b77c2018a482b8a
author Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1467230086 -0500
committer Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> 1467749206 -0500

vfs: Don't modify inodes with a uid or gid unknown to the vfs

When a filesystem outside of init_user_ns is mounted it could have
uids and gids stored in it that do not map to init_user_ns.

The plan is to allow those filesystems to set i_uid to INVALID_UID and
i_gid to INVALID_GID for unmapped uids and gids and then to handle
that strange case in the vfs to ensure there is consistent robust
handling of the weirdness.

Upon a careful review of the vfs and filesystems about the only case
where there is any possibility of confusion or trouble is when the
inode is written back to disk.  In that case filesystems typically
read the inode->i_uid and inode->i_gid and write them to disk even
when just an inode timestamp is being updated.

Which leads to a rule that is very simple to implement and understand
inodes whose i_uid or i_gid is not valid may not be written.

In dealing with access times this means treat those inodes as if the
inode flag S_NOATIME was set.  Reads of the inodes appear safe and
useful, but any write or modification is disallowed.  The only inode
write that is allowed is a chown that sets the uid and gid on the
inode to valid values.  After such a chown the inode is normal and may
be treated as such.

Denying all writes to inodes with uids or gids unknown to the vfs also
prevents several oddball cases where corruption would have occurred
because the vfs does not have complete information.

One problem case that is prevented is attempting to use the gid of a
directory for new inodes where the directories sgid bit is set but the
directories gid is not mapped.

Another problem case avoided is attempting to update the evm hash
after setxattr, removexattr, and setattr.  As the evm hash includeds
the inode->i_uid or inode->i_gid not knowning the uid or gid prevents
a correct evm hash from being computed.  evm hash verification also
fails when i_uid or i_gid is unknown but that is essentially harmless
as it does not cause filesystem corruption.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>