Re: [PATCH] ovl: Support FS_IOC_[SG]ETFLAGS and FS_IOC_FS[SG]ETXATTR ioctls on directories

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On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 6:13 PM Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 2020/9/22 20:01, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:15 AM Xiao Yang<yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >> On 2020/9/21 17:09, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:55 AM Xiao Yang<yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>   wrote:
> >>>> On 2020/9/21 16:17, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> >>>>> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 10:41 AM Xiao Yang<yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>    wrote:
> >>>>>> Factor out ovl_ioctl() and ovl_compat_ioctl() and take use of them for
> >>>>>> directories.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Signed-off-by: Xiao Yang<yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>> This change is buggy. I had already posted it and self NACKed myself [1].
> >>>>>
> >>>>> You can find an hopefully non-buggy version of it on my ovl-shutdown [2] branch.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> As long as you are changing ovl_ioctl(), please also take the second
> >>>>> commit on that
> >>>>> branch to replace the open coded capability check with the
> >>>>> vfs_ioc_setflags_prepare()
> >>>>> generic helper.
> >>>> Hi Amir,
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks a lot for your quick reply. :-)
> >>>> I will try to read and understand the metioned patches on your
> >>>> ovl-shutdown branch.
> >>> Please also verify my claim in the patch commit message, that the
> >>> the test result of xfstest generic/079 changes from "notrun" to "success".
> >> Hi Amir,
> >>
> >> With your patches, I have confirmed that generic/079 actually changed from
> >> "notrun" to "success".  Besides, one minor issue:
> >> Could we avoid the following compiler warning?
> >> -------------------------------------------------
> >> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c: In function ‘ovl_dir_real_file’:
> >> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c:883:37: warning: passing argument 1 of
> >> ‘ovl_dir_open_realfile’ discards ‘const’ qualifier from pointer target
> >> type [-Wdiscarded-qualifiers]
> >>     883 |    realfile = ovl_dir_open_realfile(file,&upperpath);
> >>         |                                     ^~~~
> >> fs/overlayfs/readdir.c:842:56: note: expected ‘struct file *’ but
> >> argument is of type ‘const struct file *’
> >>     842 | static struct file *ovl_dir_open_realfile(struct file *file,
> >>         |                                           ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~
> >> -------------------------------------------------
> >>
> > Shouldn't be a problem to change ovl_dir_open_realfile()
> > to take a const struct file * argument I think.
> Hi Amir,
>
> Other than the compiler warning I tested your patches on our
> enviroment and didn't find any issue, so add:
> Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thank you for sharing these patches again. :-)

Please post the fixed patches rebased on top of
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-next.

Please leave my signed-off-by and add your own as well.

Thanks,
Amir.




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