Miklos, On 27 June 2016 at 20:54, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 04:30:59PM +0200, Alessio Igor Bogani wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Using v4.0 I used to put two 9p or two ext4 filesystems in overlay. >> Now with v4.7-rc5 I can still put two ext4 filesystems in overlay but >> not two 9p filesystems anymore. In the later I obtain the following >> error executing a simple "cat overlay/test.txt". >> >> Bisecting results in the first offending commit >> 4bacc9c9234c7c8eec44f5ed4e960d9f96fa0f01 which though contains only > > Please try the following patch. > > Thanks, > Miklos > > diff --git a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c > index b84c291ba1eb..d7b78d531e63 100644 > --- a/fs/9p/vfs_file.c > +++ b/fs/9p/vfs_file.c > @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) > v9fs_proto_dotu(v9ses)); > fid = file->private_data; > if (!fid) { > - fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file->f_path.dentry); > + fid = v9fs_fid_clone(file_dentry(file)); > if (IS_ERR(fid)) > return PTR_ERR(fid); > > @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ int v9fs_file_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) > * because we want write after unlink usecase > * to work. > */ > - fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file->f_path.dentry); > + fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(file)); > if (IS_ERR(fid)) { > err = PTR_ERR(fid); > mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex); > @@ -516,7 +516,7 @@ v9fs_mmap_file_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma) > * because we want write after unlink usecase > * to work. > */ > - fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(filp->f_path.dentry); > + fid = v9fs_writeback_fid(file_dentry(filp)); > if (IS_ERR(fid)) { > retval = PTR_ERR(fid); > mutex_unlock(&v9inode->v_mutex); Your patch works! In the dmesg output there is a WARNING but the system is still working: [ 7.454660] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [ 7.454774] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 123 at /home/alessio/linux/fs/inode.c:337 inc_nlink+0x74/0x78 [ 7.454792] Modules linked in: [ 7.454842] CPU: 0 PID: 123 Comm: mkdir Not tainted 4.7.0-rc5 #2 [ 7.454859] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree) [ 7.454961] [<c010ff7c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010c6dc>] (show_stack+0x20/0x24) [ 7.455017] [<c010c6dc>] (show_stack) from [<c04a9dc8>] (dump_stack+0x24/0x28) [ 7.455076] [<c04a9dc8>] (dump_stack) from [<c012d150>] (__warn+0xf4/0x10c) [ 7.455117] [<c012d150>] (__warn) from [<c012d238>] (warn_slowpath_null+0x30/0x38) [ 7.455155] [<c012d238>] (warn_slowpath_null) from [<c024fb88>] (inc_nlink+0x74/0x78) [ 7.455212] [<c024fb88>] (inc_nlink) from [<c0373b48>] (v9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl+0x140/0x1dc) [ 7.455262] [<c0373b48>] (v9fs_vfs_mkdir_dotl) from [<c0240420>] (vfs_mkdir+0xc0/0x10c) [ 7.455305] [<c0240420>] (vfs_mkdir) from [<c0244844>] (SyS_mkdirat+0x78/0xc4) [ 7.455341] [<c0244844>] (SyS_mkdirat) from [<c02448b4>] (SyS_mkdir+0x24/0x28) [ 7.455378] [<c02448b4>] (SyS_mkdir) from [<c0108160>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x3c) [ 7.455400] ---[ end trace a878e09ce9f6bbd7 ]--- Thank you very much! Ciao, Alessio -- 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