An overlay mount with no upper layer (a.k.a ovl_force_readonly) does not need an index, because there is no copy up, so there is no reason to spew warnings about lower layer file handle support for index=on. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index c88493b01d8d..6381e71b0d5d 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -922,6 +922,9 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) } else if (!ufs->config.upperdir && stacklen == 1) { pr_err("overlayfs: at least 2 lowerdir are needed while upperdir nonexistent\n"); goto out_free_lowertmp; + } else if (!ufs->config.upperdir || !ufs->config.workdir) { + /* Read-only mount - skip file handle support checks */ + ufs->config.index = false; } err = -ENOMEM; -- 2.7.4 -- 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