** Description changed:

- Some docker users are getting a "permission denied" error with overlayfs
- in some situations. When a user has search permissions on the upper dir
- but not the lower dir they may get this error, where having search
- permissions for the upper dir should be sufficient. This is fixed by
- upstream commit 38b78a5f18584db6fa7441e0f4531b283b0e6725.
+ SRU Justification
+ 
+ Impact: Under some conditions docker users using the overlay2 storage
+ driver with xenial kernels will get "permission denied" errors when they
+ should not. This is due to a bug in overlayfs.
+ 
+ Fix: Backport upstream commits from 4.6.
+ 
+ Regression Potential: Upstream the patches have been present since 4.6
+ so they should be well tested at this point. The backports don't exactly
+ match the upstream patches so there's some potential for error there,
+ however no problems were seen in brief testng with docker.
+ 
+ ---
+ 
+ Due to an issue in overlayfs, in some scenrios docker users can get
+ erroneous "permission denied" errors when using the overlay2 storage
+ driver. When a user has search permissions on the upper dir but not the
+ lower dir they may get this error, where having search permissions for
+ the upper dir should be sufficient. This is fixed by upstream commit
+ 38b78a5f18584db6fa7441e0f4531b283b0e6725.
  
  Originally reported at https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/28391.

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