From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 94fd19752b28aa66c98e7991734af91dfc529f8f upstream. Christoph Fritz is reporting that failure to copy up fileattr when upper doesn't support fileattr or xattr results in a regression. Return success in these failure cases; this reverts overlayfs to the old behavior. Add a pr_warn_once() in these cases to still let the user know about the copy up failures. Reported-by: Christoph Fritz <chf.fritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 72db82115d2b ("ovl: copy up sync/noatime fileattr flags") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v5.15 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -157,7 +157,9 @@ static int ovl_copy_fileattr(struct inod */ if (oldfa.flags & OVL_PROT_FS_FLAGS_MASK) { err = ovl_set_protattr(inode, new->dentry, &oldfa); - if (err) + if (err == -EPERM) + pr_warn_once("copying fileattr: no xattr on upper\n"); + else if (err) return err; } @@ -167,6 +169,14 @@ static int ovl_copy_fileattr(struct inod err = ovl_real_fileattr_get(new, &newfa); if (err) { + /* + * Returning an error if upper doesn't support fileattr will + * result in a regression, so revert to the old behavior. + */ + if (err == -ENOTTY || err == -EINVAL) { + pr_warn_once("copying fileattr: no support on upper\n"); + return 0; + } pr_warn("failed to retrieve upper fileattr (%pd2, err=%i)\n", new, err); return err; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.15/ovl-don-t-fail-copy-up-if-no-fileattr-support-on-upper.patch