[RFC PATCH 3/5] vfs: allow unprivileged whiteout creation

[Miklos Szeredi]

Whiteouts are special, but unlike real device nodes they should not require
privileges to create.

The 0 char device number should already be reserved, but make this explicit
in cdev_add() to be on the safe side.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/char_dev.c                 |  3 +++
 fs/namei.c                    | 17 ++++-------------
 include/linux/device_cgroup.h |  3 +++
 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index 00dfe17871ac..8bf66f40e5e0 100644
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -483,6 +483,9 @@ int cdev_add(struct cdev *p, dev_t dev, unsigned count)
 	p->dev = dev;
 	p->count = count;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(dev == WHITEOUT_DEV))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
 	error = kobj_map(cdev_map, dev, count, NULL,
 			 exact_match, exact_lock, p);
 	if (error)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index 671c3c1a3425..05ca98595b62 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3687,12 +3687,14 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(user_path_create);
 
 int vfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, dev_t dev)
 {
+	bool is_whiteout = S_ISCHR(mode) && dev == WHITEOUT_DEV;
 	int error = may_create(dir, dentry);
 
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
-	if ((S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode)) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD))
+	if ((S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode)) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD) &&
+	    !is_whiteout)
 		return -EPERM;
 
 	if (!dir->i_op->mknod)
@@ -4527,9 +4529,6 @@ static int do_renameat2(int olddfd, const char __user *oldname, int newdfd,
 	    (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE))
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if ((flags & RENAME_WHITEOUT) && !capable(CAP_MKNOD))
-		return -EPERM;
-
 	if (flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE)
 		target_flags = 0;
 
@@ -4667,15 +4666,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(rename, const char __user *, oldname, const char __user *, newna
 
 int vfs_whiteout(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
 {
-	int error = may_create(dir, dentry);
-	if (error)
-		return error;
-
-	if (!dir->i_op->mknod)
-		return -EPERM;
-
-	return dir->i_op->mknod(dir, dentry,
-				S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE, WHITEOUT_DEV);
+	return vfs_mknod(dir, dentry, S_IFCHR | WHITEOUT_MODE, WHITEOUT_DEV);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_whiteout);
 
diff --git a/include/linux/device_cgroup.h b/include/linux/device_cgroup.h
index 8557efe096dc..fc989487c273 100644
--- a/include/linux/device_cgroup.h
+++ b/include/linux/device_cgroup.h
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ static inline int devcgroup_inode_mknod(int mode, dev_t dev)
 	if (!S_ISBLK(mode) && !S_ISCHR(mode))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (S_ISCHR(mode) && dev == WHITEOUT_DEV)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (S_ISBLK(mode))
 		type = DEVCG_DEV_BLOCK;
 	else
-- 
2.21.0