The "userxattr" option is needed for mounting overlayfs inside a user namespace with kernel >= 5.11.
The "userxattr" option is NOT needed for the initial user namespace (aka "the host").
Also, Ubuntu (since circa 2015) and Debian (since 10) with kernel < 5.11 can mount the overlayfs in a user namespace without the "userxattr" option.
The corresponding kernel commit: 2d2f2d7322ff43e0fe92bf8cccdc0b09449bf2e1
> ovl: user xattr
>
> Optionally allow using "user.overlay." namespace instead of "trusted.overlay."
> ...
> Disable redirect_dir and metacopy options, because these would allow privilege escalation through direct manipulation of the
> "user.overlay.redirect" or "user.overlay.metacopy" xattrs.
Fix issue 5060
Signed-off-by: Akihiro Suda <akihiro.suda.cz@hco.ntt.co.jp>
When running tests on any modern distro, this assumption will work. If
we need to make it work with kernels where we don't append this option
it will require some more involved changes.
Signed-off-by: Phil Estes <estesp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
