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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2020-03-17 15:04:22 +0100
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2020-03-17 15:04:22 +0100
commitbccece1ead368149f90e05ad104dfbfda4422f5d (patch)
treed0d4524ba18318785ff354864f5a6aff753d59dd /fs
parentf428884456192230ba1573e4028fb9282ffa2bb7 (diff)
downloadlinux-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')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/namei.c3
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c8
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/util.c2
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
index 76e61cc27822..0db23baf98e7 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
@@ -845,8 +845,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
if (err)
goto out;
- if (upperdentry && (upperdentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL ||
- unlikely(ovl_dentry_remote(upperdentry)))) {
+ if (upperdentry && upperdentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL) {
dput(upperdentry);
err = -EREMOTE;
goto out;
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);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 1cd805ba1eeb..36b60788ee47 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -102,6 +102,8 @@ void ovl_dentry_update_reval(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *upperdentry,
struct ovl_entry *oe = OVL_E(dentry);
unsigned int i, flags = 0;
+ if (upperdentry)
+ flags |= upperdentry->d_flags;
for (i = 0; i < oe->numlower; i++)
flags |= oe->lowerstack[i].dentry->d_flags;