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>
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);