Seth Forshee <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:25:34PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> These filesystems already always set SB_I_NODEV so mknod will not be >> useful for gaining control of any devices no matter their permissions. >> This will allow overlayfs and applications to fakeroot to use device >> nodes to represent things on disk. >> >> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]> > > For a normal filesystem this does seem safe enough. > > However, I'd also like to see us allow unprivileged mounting for > overlayfs, and there we need to worry about whether this would allow a > mknod in an underlying filesystem which should not be allowed. That > mknod will be subject to this same check in the underlying filesystem > using the credentials of the user that mounted the overaly fs, which > should be sufficient to ensure that the mknod is permitted.
Sufficient to ensure the mknod is not permitted on the underlying filesystem. I believe you mean. > Thus this looks okay to me. > > Acked-by: Seth Forshee <[email protected]> Eric
