From: Tarun Khandelwal <tkhandelwal32@gmail.com>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: fuse-devel@lists.linux.dev, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
"German Maglione" <gmaglione@redhat.com>,
"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@redhat.com>,
"Stefan Hajnoczi" <stefanha@redhat.com>,
"Eugenio Pérez" <eperezma@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Tarun Khandelwal" <tarun@supabase.io>
Subject: [PATCH] fuse: propagate SB_POSIXACL to submounts
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:18:12 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260929094812.93374-1-tkhandelwal32@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Tarun Khandelwal <tarun@supabase.io>
fuse_fill_super_common() always sets SB_POSIXACL on the superblock, but
fuse_fill_super_submount() never does. Submount superblocks are created
from an fs_context with no sb_flags, so the superblock of an automounted
FUSE_ATTR_SUBMOUNT directory (e.g. a virtiofs export containing another
host mount) lacks SB_POSIXACL, even though it shares the fuse_conn, and
thus fc->posix_acl, with its parent.
Since IS_POSIXACL() is false on such a submount, the VFS:
- fails setting POSIX ACLs with -EOPNOTSUPP and hides existing ACLs,
without sending any request to the server;
- applies the umask itself on create, so default ACLs on the server are
not honoured for new files;
- skips ACL checks in acl_permission_check(), so with
default_permissions (implied by FUSE_POSIX_ACL) access is decided by
the mode bits alone and restrictive ACL entries are not enforced.
Copy SB_POSIXACL from the parent superblock, as is already done for the
other superblock fields inherited from it. It cannot be set in
fuse_sb_defaults(), because fuse_fill_super_common() checks whether the
flag was passed at mount time to decide fc->dont_mask before setting it.
Reproducer, with virtiofsd 1.10.0 started with --posix-acl and an export
containing a nested mount:
host# mount -t tmpfs none /srv/share
host# mkdir /srv/share/child
host# mount -t tmpfs none /srv/share/child
host# touch /srv/share/rootfile /srv/share/child/childfile
guest# mount -t virtiofs <tag> /mnt
guest# setfacl -m u:12345:rw /mnt/rootfile # works
guest# setfacl -m u:12345:rw /mnt/child/childfile
setfacl: /mnt/child/childfile: Operation not supported
With this patch the second setfacl succeeds, ACLs set on the host are
reported by getfacl on the submount, and default ACLs and ACL-based
access checks behave the same as on the root mount. Tested on v7.3-rc5
in a QEMU guest.
Signed-off-by: Tarun Khandelwal <tarun@supabase.io>
---
I wasn't sure whether leaving SB_POSIXACL off submount superblocks was
intentional. I would have opened an issue first, but since the fix is a
one-liner I'm sending the patch directly. If there is a reason for the
current behaviour, I'm happy to rework this or drop it.
fs/fuse/inode.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/fs/fuse/inode.c b/fs/fuse/inode.c
index e9552be36..ef3c7fac4 100644
--- a/fs/fuse/inode.c
+++ b/fs/fuse/inode.c
@@ -1629,6 +1629,8 @@ static int fuse_fill_super_submount(struct super_block *sb,
WARN_ON(sb->s_bdi != &noop_backing_dev_info);
sb->s_bdi = bdi_get(parent_sb->s_bdi);
+ sb->s_flags |= parent_sb->s_flags & SB_POSIXACL;
+
sb->s_xattr = parent_sb->s_xattr;
sb->s_export_op = parent_sb->s_export_op;
sb->s_time_gran = parent_sb->s_time_gran;
--
2.43.0
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