Need to treat non-regular overlayfs files the same as regular files when checking for an atime update. Add a d_real() flag to make it return the real dentry for all file types. Reported-by: "zhangyi (F)" <yi.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/inode.c | 3 ++- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 3 +++ include/linux/dcache.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index 50370599e371..16e85d3a46d1 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -1570,7 +1570,8 @@ static void update_ovl_inode_times(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, bool rcu) { if (!rcu) { - struct inode *realinode = d_real_inode(dentry); + struct inode *realinode = + d_inode(d_real(dentry, NULL, 0, D_REAL_ALL)); if (unlikely(inode != realinode) && (!timespec_equal(&inode->i_mtime, &realinode->i_mtime) || diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 19e89ce39017..059ee2f19361 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -75,6 +75,9 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_d_real(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *real; int err; + if (flags & D_REAL_ALL) + return ovl_dentry_real(dentry); + if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) { if (!inode || inode == d_inode(dentry)) return dentry; diff --git a/include/linux/dcache.h b/include/linux/dcache.h index fd0721e520f4..9594ef3382ff 100644 --- a/include/linux/dcache.h +++ b/include/linux/dcache.h @@ -562,6 +562,9 @@ static inline struct dentry *d_backing_dentry(struct dentry *upper) return upper; } +/* d_real() flags */ +#define D_REAL_ALL 0x1 /* return real dentry for all file types */ + /** * d_real - Return the real dentry * @dentry: the dentry to query -- 2.5.5 -- 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