Comment above call already says this, but only EOPNOTSUPP is ignored, other failures are not. For example setting "user.*" will fail with EPERM on symlink/special. Ignore this error as well. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index 955ecd4030f0..8a7ef40d98f8 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -352,7 +352,8 @@ int ovl_set_origin(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *lower, fh ? fh->fb.len : 0, 0); kfree(fh); - return err; + /* Ignore -EPERM from setting "user.*" on symlink/special */ + return err == -EPERM ? 0 : err; } /* Store file handle of @upper dir in @index dir entry */ -- 2.26.2
