Hi Linus,
Please pull overlayfs updates for 6.12.
This branch has been sitting in linux-next for over a week and
it has gone through the usual overlayfs test routines.
The branch merges cleanly with master branch of the moment.
Thanks,
Amir.
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The following changes since commit 3e9bff3bbe1355805de919f688bef4baefbfd436:
Merge tag 'vfs-6.11-rc6.fixes' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs (2024-08-27 16:57:35 +1200)
are available in the Git repository at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs.git ovl-update-6.12
for you to fetch changes up to 6c4a5f96450415735c31ed70ff354f0ee5cbf67b:
ovl: fail if trusted xattrs are needed but caller lacks permission (2024-09-08 15:36:59 +0200)
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overlayfs updates for 6.12
- Increase robustness of overlayfs to crashes in the case of underlying
filesystems that to not guarantee metadata ordering to persistent storage
(problem was reported with ubifs).
- Deny mount inside container with features that require root privileges
to work properly, instead of failing operations later.
- Some clarifications to overlayfs documentation.
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Amir Goldstein (1):
ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up
Haifeng Xu (1):
ovl: don't set the superblock's errseq_t manually
Mike Baynton (1):
ovl: fail if trusted xattrs are needed but caller lacks permission
Yuriy Belikov (1):
overlayfs.rst: update metacopy section in overlayfs documentation
Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 7 ++++--
fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
fs/overlayfs/params.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 10 ++------
4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
