I can confirm this bug with overlayfs on top of tmpfs, I think it happens when a program does fsetxattr on a file.
I was able to reproduce it with sed which uses setxattr when it creates a new file, the shell does not do this when creating a file and does not trigger the bug. `touch /tmp/foo; sed -i '' /tmp/foo; cat /tmp/foo` results in EACCES from open(2) in cat(1). sed: fsetxattr(4, "system.posix_acl_access", "\2\0\0\0\1\0\6\0\377\377\377\377\4\0\4\0\377\377\377\377 \0\4\0\377\377\377\377", 28, 0) = 0 cat: open("/tmp/foo", O_RDONLY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1840328 Title: Regression in overlayfs between 4.4.0-157 and 4.4.0-159 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1840328/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs