If the lower or upper directory of an overlayfs mount belong to a btrfs
file system and we fsync the file through the overlayfs' merged directory
we ended up accessing an inode that didn't belong to btrfs as if it were
a btrfs inode at btrfs_sync_file() resulting in a crash like the following:
This started happening since commit 4bacc9c9234 (overlayfs: Make f_path
always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay) and even though
after this change we could still access the btrfs inode through
struct file->f_mapping->host or struct file->f_inode, we would end up
resulting in more similar issues later on at check_parent_dirs_for_sync()
because the dentry we got (from struct file->f_path.dentry) was from
overlayfs and not from btrfs, that is, we had no way of getting the dentry
that belonged to btrfs (we always got the dentry that belonged to
overlayfs).
The new patch from Miklos Szeredi, titled "vfs: add file_dentry()" and
recently submitted to linux-fsdevel, adds a file_dentry() API that allows
us to get the btrfs dentry from the input file and therefore being able
to fsync when the upper and lower directories belong to btrfs filesystems.
This issue has been reported several times by users in the mailing list
and bugzilla. A test case for xfstests is being submitted as well.
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay")
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101951
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109791 Signed-off-by: Filipe Manana <fdmanana@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>