ovl: default permissions

Add mount option "default_permissions" to alter the way permissions are
calculated.

Without this option and prior to this patch permissions were calculated by
underlying lower or upper filesystem.

With this option the permissions are calculated by overlayfs based on the
file owner, group and mode bits.

This has significance for example when a read-only exported NFS filesystem
is used as a lower layer.  In this case the underlying NFS filesystem will
reply with EROFS, in which case all we know is that the filesystem is
read-only.  But that's not what we are interested in, we are interested in
whether the access would be allowed if the filesystem wasn't read-only; the
server doesn't tell us that, and would need updating at various levels,
which doesn't seem practicable.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index ea5a40b06e3a..f3e6efefe40b 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -142,7 +142,10 @@ struct dentry *ovl_dentry_upper(struct dentry *dentry);
 struct dentry *ovl_dentry_lower(struct dentry *dentry);
 struct dentry *ovl_dentry_real(struct dentry *dentry);
 struct dentry *ovl_entry_real(struct ovl_entry *oe, bool *is_upper);
+struct vfsmount *ovl_entry_mnt_real(struct ovl_entry *oe, struct inode *inode,
+				    bool is_upper);
 struct ovl_dir_cache *ovl_dir_cache(struct dentry *dentry);
+bool ovl_is_default_permissions(struct inode *inode);
 void ovl_set_dir_cache(struct dentry *dentry, struct ovl_dir_cache *cache);
 struct dentry *ovl_workdir(struct dentry *dentry);
 int ovl_want_write(struct dentry *dentry);