On January 15, 2015 2:20:57 PM GMT+09:00, hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >After importing multi-lower layer support, users could mount a r/o >partition as the left most lowerdir instead of using it as upperdir. >And a r/o upperdir may cause an error like > > overlayfs: failed to create directory ./workdir/work > >during mount. > >This patch check the *s_flags* of upper fs and return an error if >it is a r/o partition. The checking of *upper_mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags* >can be removed now. > >This patch also remove > > /* FIXME: workdir is not needed for a R/O mount */ > >from ovl_fill_super() because: > >1) for upper fs r/o case >Setting a r/o partition as upper is prevented, no need to care about >workdir in this case. > >2) for "mount overlay -o ro" with a r/w upper fs case >Users could remount overlayfs to r/w in this case, so workdir should >not be omitted. > >Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx> >--- > fs/overlayfs/super.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > >diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c >index edbb3eb..0e7a477 100644 >--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c >+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c >@@ -529,8 +529,7 @@ static int ovl_remount(struct super_block *sb, int >*flags, char *data) > { > struct ovl_fs *ufs = sb->s_fs_info; > >- if (!(*flags & MS_RDONLY) && >- (!ufs->upper_mnt || (ufs->upper_mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags & >MS_RDONLY))) >+ if (!(*flags & MS_RDONLY) && (!ufs->upper_mnt)) > return -EROFS; > > return 0; >@@ -619,6 +618,15 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, struct >ovl_config *config) > return -EINVAL; > } > } >+ >+ /* Workdir is useless in non-upper mount */ >+ if (!config->upperdir && config->workdir) { >+ pr_info("overlayfs: option \"workdir=%s\" is useless in a non-upper >mount, ignore\n", >+ config->workdir); >+ kfree(config->workdir); >+ config->workdir = NULL; >+ } >+ > return 0; > } > >@@ -838,7 +846,6 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, >void *data, int silent) > > sb->s_stack_depth = 0; > if (ufs->config.upperdir) { >- /* FIXME: workdir is not needed for a R/O mount */ > if (!ufs->config.workdir) { > pr_err("overlayfs: missing 'workdir'\n"); > goto out_free_config; >@@ -848,6 +855,13 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, >void *data, int silent) > if (err) > goto out_free_config; > >+ /* Upper fs should not be r/o */ >+ if (upperpath.mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) { >+ pr_err("overlayfs: upper fs is r/o, try multi-lower layers >mount\n"); >+ err = -EINVAL; >+ goto out_put_upperpath; >+ } >+ > err = ovl_mount_dir(ufs->config.workdir, &workpath); > if (err) > goto out_put_upperpath; >@@ -939,8 +953,8 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, >void *data, int silent) > ufs->numlower++; > } > >- /* If the upper fs is r/o or nonexistent, we mark overlayfs r/o too >*/ >- if (!ufs->upper_mnt || (ufs->upper_mnt->mnt_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) >+ /* If the upper fs is nonexistent, we mark overlayfs r/o too */ >+ if (!ufs->upper_mnt) > sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY; > > sb->s_d_op = &ovl_dentry_operations; It works fine to me. And I think it is better than my implementation : ) Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html