When we create a hardlink to a metacopy upper file, first the redirect on that inode. Path based lookup will not work with newly created link and redirect will solve that issue. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 18 ++++++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index b955f6fede06..da5c4b8ee919 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ module_param_named(redirect_max, ovl_redirect_max, ushort, 0644); MODULE_PARM_DESC(ovl_redirect_max, "Maximum length of absolute redirect xattr value"); +static int ovl_set_redirect(struct dentry *dentry, bool samedir); + int ovl_cleanup(struct inode *wdir, struct dentry *wdentry) { int err; @@ -468,6 +470,9 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, const struct cred *old_cred; struct cred *override_cred; struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent; + struct dentry *hardlink_upper; + + hardlink_upper = hardlink ? ovl_dentry_upper(hardlink) : NULL; err = ovl_copy_up(parent); if (err) @@ -502,12 +507,18 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, put_cred(override_creds(override_cred)); put_cred(override_cred); + if (hardlink && ovl_is_metacopy_dentry(hardlink)) { + err = ovl_set_redirect(hardlink, false); + if (err) + goto out_revert_creds; + } + if (!ovl_dentry_is_whiteout(dentry)) err = ovl_create_upper(dentry, inode, attr, - hardlink); + hardlink_upper); else err = ovl_create_over_whiteout(dentry, inode, attr, - hardlink); + hardlink_upper); } out_revert_creds: revert_creds(old_cred); @@ -602,8 +613,7 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old, struct inode *newdir, inode = d_inode(old); ihold(inode); - err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode, NULL, ovl_dentry_upper(old), - ovl_type_origin(old)); + err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode, NULL, old, ovl_type_origin(old)); if (err) iput(inode); -- 2.13.6 -- 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