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| author | Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> | 2021-04-27 13:28:26 +0300 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2021-08-17 11:47:44 +0200 |
| commit | ffb24e3c657869b256c3f90792d262fe09f49628 (patch) | |
| tree | cba87f6ea2b4e8b57fcf48849f5f721219dc08ed /fs/overlayfs/namei.c | |
| parent | 1fc31aac96d7060ecee18124be6de18cb2268922 (diff) | |
| download | linux-ffb24e3c657869b256c3f90792d262fe09f49628.tar.bz2 | |
ovl: relax lookup error on mismatch origin ftype
We get occasional reports of lookup errors due to mismatched
origin ftype from users that re-format a lower squashfs image.
Commit 13c6ad0f45fd ("ovl: document lower modification caveats")
tries to discourage the practice of re-formating lower layers and
describes the expected behavior as undefined.
Commit b0e0f69731cd ("ovl: restrict lower null uuid for "xino=auto"")
limits the configurations in which origin file handles are followed.
In addition to these measures, change the behavior in case of detecting
a mismatch origin ftype in lookup to issue a warning, not follow origin,
but not fail the lookup operation either.
That should make overall more users happy without any big consequences.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxgPq9E9xxwU2CDyHy-_yCZZeymg+3n+-6AqkGGE1YtwvQ@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/namei.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index da063b18b419..1a9b515fc45d 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ invalid: upperdentry, d_inode(upperdentry)->i_mode & S_IFMT, d_inode(origin)->i_mode & S_IFMT); dput(origin); - return -EIO; + return -ESTALE; } static int ovl_check_origin(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upperdentry, |