[linux-unionfs added to Cc] On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 09:51:20AM +0200, Bastian Bittorf wrote: > Hi Miklos, > > sorry for writing directly to you, feel free to forward > this to the appropriate mailinglist. > > we have a problem with mainline overlay filesystem on kernel 3.18: > https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/19564 > > 2 things are odd: > when the working filesystem is full, overlays fails with: > > overlayfs: failed to create directory /overlay/work/work > > what is strange, that we call it with: > > mount(overlay, "/mnt", "overlay", MS_NOATIME, lowerdir) > > see here: > http://nbd.name/gitweb.cgi?p=fstools.git;a=blob;f=libfstools/mount.c;h=81176ce399b4cd8e2d347c0008c13dec92407f55;hb=e6004000ff15d7bd32cf5663e8690fc94d7ec747#l125 > > do you have an idea whats wrong? > 1) is it really needed, that we need space for creating dir "/overlay/work"? > 2) why does overlay need "/overlay/work/work"? The work directory is needed for atomic copy-up and similar. It is not actually necessary to mount a read-only overlay. Post 4.0 it is possible to mount the overlay without workdir (but even then it won't happen automatically in case the upper fs is full, so this should be fixed in the latest kernel too). Could you please try the following patch? If the workdir can't be created it will fall back to mounting the overlay read-only. Thanks, Miklos --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 3 +++ fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 9 +++++++++ fs/overlayfs/super.c | 12 +++++++++--- 3 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -300,6 +300,9 @@ int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *paren struct cred *override_cred; char *link = NULL; + if (WARN_ON(!workdir)) + return -EROFS; + ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath); upperdir = parentpath.dentry; --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_clear_empty(st struct kstat stat; int err; + if (WARN_ON(!workdir)) + return ERR_PTR(-EROFS); + err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(workdir, upperdir); if (err) goto out; @@ -322,6 +325,9 @@ static int ovl_create_over_whiteout(stru struct dentry *newdentry; int err; + if (WARN_ON(!workdir)) + return -EROFS; + err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(workdir, upperdir); if (err) goto out; @@ -506,6 +512,9 @@ static int ovl_remove_and_whiteout(struc struct dentry *opaquedir = NULL; int err; + if (WARN_ON(!workdir)) + return -EROFS; + if (is_dir) { opaquedir = ovl_check_empty_and_clear(dentry); err = PTR_ERR(opaquedir); --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -740,9 +740,15 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_b ufs->workdir = ovl_workdir_create(ufs->upper_mnt, workpath.dentry); err = PTR_ERR(ufs->workdir); if (IS_ERR(ufs->workdir)) { - pr_err("overlayfs: failed to create directory %s/%s\n", - ufs->config.workdir, OVL_WORKDIR_NAME); - goto out_put_lower_mnt; + if (err == -ENOSPC || err == -EROFS) { + pr_warning("overlayfs: failed to work directory (%s), mounting read-only\n", err == ENOSPC ? "ENOSPC" : "EROFS"); + sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY; + ufs->workdir = NULL; + } else { + pr_err("overlayfs: failed to create directory %s/%s\n", + ufs->config.workdir, OVL_WORKDIR_NAME); + goto out_put_lower_mnt; + } } /* -- 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
