From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:41:22 +0000 (+0200) Subject: ovl: don't set origin on broken lower hardlink X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fbaf94ee3cd5cfa85fe2d4d04be968820cb00556;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git ovl: don't set origin on broken lower hardlink When copying up a file that has multiple hard links we need to break any association with the origin file. This makes copy-up be essentially an atomic replace. The new file has nothing to do with the old one (except having the same data and metadata initially), so don't set the overlay.origin attribute. We can relax this in the future when we are able to index upper object by origin. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Fixes: 3a1e819b4e80 ("ovl: store file handle of lower inode on copy up") --- diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index ded8bfeb193e..a2a65120c9d0 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -392,10 +392,15 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct dentry *workdir, struct dentry *upperdir, /* * Store identifier of lower inode in upper inode xattr to * allow lookup of the copy up origin inode. + * + * Don't set origin when we are breaking the association with a lower + * hard link. */ - err = ovl_set_origin(dentry, lowerpath->dentry, temp); - if (err) - goto out_cleanup; + if (S_ISDIR(stat->mode) || stat->nlink == 1) { + err = ovl_set_origin(dentry, lowerpath->dentry, temp); + if (err) + goto out_cleanup; + } upper = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, upperdir, dentry->d_name.len);