Re: [PATCH v6 6/9] ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb

From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
Date: Mon Aug 25 2025 - 07:24:37 EST


André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> For filesystems with encoding (i.e. with case-insensitive support), set
> the dentry operations for the super block as ovl_dentry_ci_operations.
>
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v6:
> - Fix kernel bot warning: unused variable 'ofs'
> ---
> fs/overlayfs/super.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> index b1dbd3c79961094d00c7f99cc622e515d544d22f..8db4e55d5027cb975fec9b92251f62fe5924af4f 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
> @@ -161,6 +161,16 @@ static const struct dentry_operations ovl_dentry_operations = {
> .d_weak_revalidate = ovl_dentry_weak_revalidate,
> };
>
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE)
> +static const struct dentry_operations ovl_dentry_ci_operations = {
> + .d_real = ovl_d_real,
> + .d_revalidate = ovl_dentry_revalidate,
> + .d_weak_revalidate = ovl_dentry_weak_revalidate,
> + .d_hash = generic_ci_d_hash,
> + .d_compare = generic_ci_d_compare,
> +};
> +#endif
> +
> static struct kmem_cache *ovl_inode_cachep;
>
> static struct inode *ovl_alloc_inode(struct super_block *sb)
> @@ -1332,6 +1342,19 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_get_root(struct super_block *sb,
> return root;
> }
>
> +static void ovl_set_d_op(struct super_block *sb)
> +{
> +#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_UNICODE)
> + struct ovl_fs *ofs = sb->s_fs_info;
> +
> + if (ofs->casefold) {
> + set_default_d_op(sb, &ovl_dentry_ci_operations);
> + return;
> + }
> +#endif
> + set_default_d_op(sb, &ovl_dentry_operations);
> +}
> +
> int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
> {
> struct ovl_fs *ofs = sb->s_fs_info;
> @@ -1443,6 +1466,8 @@ int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, struct fs_context *fc)
> if (IS_ERR(oe))
> goto out_err;
>
> + ovl_set_d_op(sb);
> +

Absolutely minor, but fill_super is now calling
set_default_d_op(sb, &ovl_dentry_operations) twice, once here and once
at the beginning of the function. You can remove the original call.

> /* If the upper fs is nonexistent, we mark overlayfs r/o too */
> if (!ovl_upper_mnt(ofs))
> sb->s_flags |= SB_RDONLY;

--
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi