Re: [PATCH] ovl: tentative fix for broken vfs_open() on stacked overlayfs.

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 08:28:47PM +0100, Quentin Casasnovas wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 06:09:23PM +0100, Quentin Casasnovas wrote:
> > If two overlayfs filesystems are stacked on top of each other, then we need
> > to recurse when opening a file.  This used to work and was first broken by:
> > 
> >   4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay...")
> > 
> > and fixed by:
> > 
> >   1c8a47df36d7 ("ovl: fix open in stacked overlay")
> > 
> > But it looks like it was re-introduced in:
> > 
> >   2d902671ce1c ("vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real()")

Thanks for the report.

Following patch should fix it (it's there in your patch, so you weren't too far
off).  It needs more testing and review, but I think it fixes the basic problem.

Thanks,
Miklos


diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index edd46a0e951d..f4d2f63fa53a 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_d_real(struct dentry *dentry,
 	if (!real)
 		goto bug;
 
-	if (!inode || inode == d_inode(real))
+	if (inode && inode == d_inode(real))
 		return real;
 
 	/* Handle recursion */