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| author | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2020-03-17 15:04:22 +0100 |
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| committer | Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> | 2020-03-17 15:04:22 +0100 |
| commit | bccece1ead368149f90e05ad104dfbfda4422f5d (patch) | |
| tree | d0d4524ba18318785ff354864f5a6aff753d59dd /fs/overlayfs/super.c | |
| parent | f428884456192230ba1573e4028fb9282ffa2bb7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bccece1ead368149f90e05ad104dfbfda4422f5d.tar.bz2 | |
ovl: allow remote upper
No reason to prevent upper layer being a remote filesystem. Do the
revalidation in that case, just as we already do for lower layers.
This lets virtiofs be used as upper layer, which appears to be a real use
case.
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/super.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index d944ab46b69e..e8965fd1a608 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -135,9 +135,14 @@ static int ovl_dentry_revalidate_common(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags, bool weak) { struct ovl_entry *oe = dentry->d_fsdata; + struct dentry *upper; unsigned int i; int ret = 1; + upper = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); + if (upper) + ret = ovl_revalidate_real(upper, flags, weak); + for (i = 0; ret > 0 && i < oe->numlower; i++) { ret = ovl_revalidate_real(oe->lowerstack[i].dentry, flags, weak); @@ -747,8 +752,7 @@ static int ovl_mount_dir(const char *name, struct path *path) ovl_unescape(tmp); err = ovl_mount_dir_noesc(tmp, path); - if (!err && (ovl_dentry_remote(path->dentry) || - path->dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL)) { + if (!err && path->dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL) { pr_err("filesystem on '%s' not supported as upperdir\n", tmp); path_put_init(path); |