From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx> During mount(), build_root_union() creates the union stack for the root directory. All other directory union stacks are bootstrapped from their parents' union stacks during path lookup. Signed-off-by: Valerie Aurora <valerie.aurora@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namespace.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c index 3da6848..12563ea 100644 --- a/fs/namespace.c +++ b/fs/namespace.c @@ -1507,6 +1507,54 @@ static int clone_union_tree(struct vfsmount *topmost, struct path *mntpnt) return 0; } +/** + * build_root_union - Create the union stack for the root dir + * + * @topmost_mnt - vfsmount of topmost mount + * + * Build the union stack for the root dir. Annoyingly, we have to + * traverse union "up" from the root of the cloned tree to find the + * topmost read-only mount, and then traverse back "down" to build the + * stack. + */ + +static int build_root_union(struct vfsmount *topmost_mnt) +{ + struct path lower, topmost_path; + struct vfsmount *mnt, *topmost_ro_mnt; + unsigned int i, layers = 1; + int err = 0; + + /* Find the topmost read-only mount */ + topmost_ro_mnt = topmost_mnt->mnt_sb->s_union_lower_mnts; + for (mnt = topmost_ro_mnt; mnt; mnt = next_mnt(mnt, topmost_ro_mnt)) { + if ((mnt->mnt_parent == topmost_ro_mnt) && + (mnt->mnt_mountpoint == topmost_ro_mnt->mnt_root)) { + topmost_ro_mnt = mnt; + layers++; + } + } + topmost_mnt->mnt_sb->s_union_count = layers; + + /* Build the root dir's union stack from the top down */ + topmost_path.mnt = topmost_mnt; + topmost_path.dentry = topmost_mnt->mnt_root; + mnt = topmost_ro_mnt; + for (i = 0; i < layers; i++) { + lower.mnt = mntget(mnt); + lower.dentry = dget(mnt->mnt_root); + err = union_add_dir(&topmost_path, &lower, i); + if (err) + goto out; + mnt = mnt->mnt_parent; + } + return 0; +out: + d_free_unions(topmost_path.dentry); + topmost_mnt->mnt_sb->s_union_count = 0; + return err; +} + /* * @source_mnt : mount tree to be attached * @nd : place the mount tree @source_mnt is attached -- 1.7.0.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html