Patch "ovl: setattr: check permissions before copy-up" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ovl: setattr: check permissions before copy-up

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
ovl-setattr-check-permissions-before-copy-up.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 16:30:49 +0100
Subject: ovl: setattr: check permissions before copy-up

From: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

commit cf9a6784f7c1b5ee2b9159a1246e327c331c5697 upstream.

Without this copy-up of a file can be forced, even without actually being allowed to do anything on the file.

[Arnd Bergmann] include <linux/pagemap.h> for PAGE_CACHE_SIZE (used by MAX_LFS_FILESIZE definition).

---
 fs/overlayfs/inode.c |   13 +++++++++++++
 fs/overlayfs/super.c |    2 ++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, s
 	int err;
 	struct dentry *upperdentry;
 
+	/*
+	 * Check for permissions before trying to copy-up.  This is redundant
+	 * since it will be rechecked later by ->setattr() on upper dentry.  But
+	 * without this, copy-up can be triggered by just about anybody.
+	 *
+	 * We don't initialize inode->size, which just means that
+	 * inode_newsize_ok() will always check against MAX_LFS_FILESIZE and not
+	 * check for a swapfile (which this won't be anyway).
+	 */
+	err = inode_change_ok(dentry->d_inode, attr);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
 	err = ovl_want_write(dentry);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/namei.h>
+#include <linux/pagemap.h>
 #include <linux/xattr.h>
 #include <linux/security.h>
 #include <linux/mount.h>

@@ -910,6 +911,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_b
 	}
 
 	sb->s_stack_depth = 0;
+	sb->s_maxbytes = MAX_LFS_FILESIZE;
 	if (ufs->config.upperdir) {
 		if (!ufs->config.workdir) {
 			pr_err("overlayfs: missing 'workdir'\n");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/ovl-allow-zero-size-xattr.patch queue-4.4/ovl-root-copy-attr.patch queue-4.4/ovl-check-dentry-positiveness-in-ovl_cleanup_whiteouts.patch queue-4.4/ovl-setattr-check-permissions-before-copy-up.patch queue-4.4/ovl-use-a-minimal-buffer-in-ovl_copy_xattr.patch