linux-kernel - Re: overlayfs vs. fscrypt

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Date:   Wed, 13 Mar 2019 17:24:10 +0100
From:   Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
To:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>
Cc:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>,
        Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
        linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org,
        overlayfs <linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Paul Lawrence <paullawrence@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: overlayfs vs. fscrypt

Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2019, 17:13:52 CET schrieb James Bottomley:
> > What do you mean by "containment breaches by other tenants"?  Note
> > that while the key is added, fscrypt doesn't prevent access to the
> > encrypted files.
> 
> You mean it's not multiuser safe?  Even if user a owns the key they add
> user b can still see the decrypted contents?

If user a reads the file before, yes. Then user b sees it because the contents
got cached.
That's why you need still make sure that your access control is sane.

Thanks,
//richard