Following patch will allow remote as upper layer, but not overlay stacked on upper layer. Separate the two concepts. This patch is doesn't change behavior. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 3 ++- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 14 +++++++------- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 3 +-- 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index ed9e129fae04..a5b998a93a24 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -845,7 +845,8 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, if (err) goto out; - if (upperdentry && unlikely(ovl_dentry_remote(upperdentry))) { + if (upperdentry && (upperdentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL || + unlikely(ovl_dentry_remote(upperdentry)))) { dput(upperdentry); err = -EREMOTE; goto out; diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 852a1816fea1..7e294bf719ff 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -752,13 +752,13 @@ static int ovl_mount_dir(const char *name, struct path *path) ovl_unescape(tmp); err = ovl_mount_dir_noesc(tmp, path); - if (!err) - if (ovl_dentry_remote(path->dentry)) { - pr_err("filesystem on '%s' not supported as upperdir\n", - tmp); - path_put_init(path); - err = -EINVAL; - } + if (!err && (ovl_dentry_remote(path->dentry) || + path->dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL)) { + pr_err("filesystem on '%s' not supported as upperdir\n", + tmp); + path_put_init(path); + err = -EINVAL; + } kfree(tmp); } return err; diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c index ea005085803f..67cd2866aaa2 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -93,8 +93,7 @@ struct ovl_entry *ovl_alloc_entry(unsigned int numlower) bool ovl_dentry_remote(struct dentry *dentry) { return dentry->d_flags & - (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE | - DCACHE_OP_REAL); + (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE); } bool ovl_dentry_weird(struct dentry *dentry) -- 2.21.1