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ovl: Fix opaque regression in ovl_lookup

PATCH Applied hujianyang 2 participants 2 messages Jan 6, 2015 – Jan 8, 2015

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PATCH 1/1 ovl: Fix opaque regression in ovl_lookup

Current multi-layer support overlayfs has a regression in .lookup(). If there is a directory in upperdir and a regular file has same name in lowerdir in a merged directory, lower file is hidden and upper directory is set to opaque in former case. But it is changed in present code.

In lowerdir lookup path, if a found inode is not directory, the type checking of previous inode is missing. This inode will be copied to the lowerstack of ovl_entry directly.

That will lead to several wrong conditions, for example, the reading of the directory in upperdir may return an error like:

ls: reading directory .: Not a directory

This patch makes the lowerdir lookup path check the opaque for non-directory file too.

---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
fs/overlayfs/super.c +5 -3
index d50e3ed..47ab5f4 100644
@@ -400,15 +400,17 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		 *
 		 * FIXME: check for opaqueness maybe better done in remove code.
 		 */
-		if (!S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode)) {
+		if (!S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode))
 			opaque = true;
-		} else if (prev && (!S_ISDIR(prev->d_inode->i_mode) ||
-				    !S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode))) {
+
+		if (prev && (!S_ISDIR(prev->d_inode->i_mode) ||
+			     !S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode))) {
 			if (prev == upperdentry)
 				upperopaque = true;
 			dput(this);
 			break;
 		}
+
 		stack[ctr].dentry = this;
 		stack[ctr].mnt = lowerpath.mnt;
 		ctr++;
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Quoted 5 lines · hujianyang

Current multi-layer support overlayfs has a regression in .lookup(). If there is a directory in upperdir and a regular file has same name in lowerdir in a merged directory, lower file is hidden and upper directory is set to opaque in former case. But it is changed in present code.

Applied.

Thanks,
Miklos