Re: overlayfs in 4.12-rc1. Files in lower become unwritable in the overlay

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On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 8:57 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 5:41 PM,  <ziegler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> How to reproduce: Make sure that the kernel is compiled with
>> CONFIG_TMPFS_XATTR not set. (Otherwise, as Miklos suggested, the bug
>> does not occur)
>>
>> Start with a directory "lower" (btrfs in my case) containing an empty
>> file "x", and three empty directories "upper", "workdir", "over" on
>> "/tmp" (tmpfs). Then mount the overlayfs
>>
>>    sudo mount -t overlay -o \
>>      lowerdir=lower,upperdir=/tmp/upper,workdir=/tmp/workdir overlay \
>>      /tmp/over
>>
>> Then the commands
>>
>>    sudo touch /tmp/over/x
>>    sudo mv /tmp/over/x /tmp/over/z
>>
>> fail:
>>   touch: cannot touch '/tmp/over/x': Operation not supported
>>   mv: cannot move '/tmp/over/x' to '/tmp/over/z': Operation not
>>   supported
>
> Thanks for the report.  Fix pushed to overlayfs-next branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git
>

I don't see the fix on the branch..
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