On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 8:53 AM Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I also looked at normal filesystem lower and hugetlbfs upper. Yes, overlayfs > > allows this. This is somewhat 'interesting' as write() is not supported in > > hugetlbfs. Writing to files in the overlay actually ended up writing to > > files in the lower filesystem. That seems wrong, but overlayfs is new to me. Yes, this very definitely should not happen. > I am not sure how that happened, but I think that ovl_open_realfile() > needs to fixup f_mode flags FMODE_CAN_WRITE | FMODE_CAN_READ > after open_with_fake_path(). Okay, but how did the write actually get to the lower layer? I failed to reproduce this. Mike, how did you trigger this? Thanks, Miklos
