On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:05 PM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Are you suggesting to move the inuse lock to the workdir inode? doable.
> I guess I choose to lock workdir/work because of the may_delete
> protection it provides,
> but you questioned that part anyway.
Yes, I think we should protect workdir/upperdir with I_INUSE.
> I don't mind dropping the "?" though - perhaps phrase the error more
> generically:
> pr_err("overlayfs: workdir is in-use by another mount\n");
Okay.
Thanks,
Miklos
