Re: [PATCH] ovl: temporarily disable appending lowedirs

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On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 10:53:53PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Kernel v6.5 converted overlayfs to new mount api.
> As an added bonus, it also added a feature to allow appending lowerdirs
> using lowerdir=:/lower2,lowerdir=::/data3 syntax.
> 
> This new syntax has raised some concerns regarding escaping of colons.
> We decided to try and disable this syntax, which hasn't been in the wild
> for so long and introduce it again in 6.7 using explicit mount options
> lowerdir+=/lower2,datadir+=/data3.
> 
> Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpegsr3A4YgF2YBevWa6n3=AcP7hNndG6EPMu3ncvV-AM71A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
> Fixes: b36a5780cb44 ("ovl: modify layer parameter parsing")
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>




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