[PATCH AUTOSEL 3.18 92/98] ovl: fix open in stacked overlay

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Oct 25 2018 - 10:21:21 EST


From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 1c8a47df36d72ace8cf78eb6c228aa0f8027d3c2 ]

If two overlayfs filesystems are stacked on top of each other, then we need
recursion in ovl_d_select_inode().

I guess d_backing_inode() is supposed to do that. But currently it doesn't
and that functionality is open coded in vfs_open(). This is now copied
into ovl_d_select_inode() to fix this regression.

Reported-by: Alban Crequy <alban.crequy@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the overlay...")
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index df5c2853c4e5..a01ec1836a72 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -377,6 +377,9 @@ struct inode *ovl_d_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned file_flags)
ovl_path_upper(dentry, &realpath);
}

+ if (realpath.dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_SELECT_INODE)
+ return realpath.dentry->d_op->d_select_inode(realpath.dentry, file_flags);
+
return d_backing_inode(realpath.dentry);
}

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2.17.1