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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-06 10:35:22 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-07-06 10:35:22 -0700
commit30d0844bdcea9fb8b0b3c8abfa5547bc3bcf8baa (patch)
tree87302af9e03ee50cf135cc9ce6589f41fe3b3db1 /fs/overlayfs/super.c
parentae3e4562e2ce0149a4424c994a282955700711e7 (diff)
parentbc86765181aa26cc9afcb0a6f9f253cbb1186f26 (diff)
downloadlinux-30d0844bdcea9fb8b0b3c8abfa5547bc3bcf8baa.tar.bz2
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net
Conflicts: drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en.h drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/en_main.c drivers/net/usb/r8152.c All three conflicts were overlapping changes. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/super.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c12
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index ce02f46029da..9a7693d5f8ff 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -1082,11 +1082,13 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
if (err < 0)
goto out_put_workdir;
- if (!err) {
- pr_err("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
- err = -EINVAL;
- goto out_put_workdir;
- }
+ /*
+ * We allowed this configuration and don't want to
+ * break users over kernel upgrade. So warn instead
+ * of erroring out.
+ */
+ if (!err)
+ pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
}
}