This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ovl: don't copy up opaqueness to the 4.7-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: ovl-don-t-copy-up-opaqueness.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0956254a2d5b9e2141385514553aeef694dfe3b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2016 15:08:49 +0200 Subject: ovl: don't copy up opaqueness From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0956254a2d5b9e2141385514553aeef694dfe3b5 upstream. When a copy up of a directory occurs which has the opaque xattr set, the xattr remains in the upper directory. The immediate behavior with overlayfs is that the upper directory is not treated as opaque, however after a remount the opaque flag is used and upper directory is treated as opaque. This causes files created in the lower layer to be hidden when using multiple lower directories. Fix by not copying up the opaque flag. To reproduce: ----8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---- mkdir -p l/d/s u v w mnt mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=l,upperdir=u,workdir=w mnt rm -rf mnt/d/ mkdir -p mnt/d/n umount mnt mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=u:l,upperdir=v,workdir=w mnt touch mnt/d/foo umount mnt mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=u:l,upperdir=v,workdir=w mnt ls mnt/d ----8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---------8<---- output should be: "foo n" Reported-by: Derek McGowan <dmcg@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151291 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 2 ++ fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, s } for (name = buf; name < (buf + list_size); name += strlen(name) + 1) { + if (ovl_is_private_xattr(name)) + continue; retry: size = vfs_getxattr(old, name, value, value_size); if (size == -ERANGE) --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static int ovl_readlink(struct dentry *d } -static bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name) +bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name) { return strncmp(name, OVL_XATTR_PRE_NAME, OVL_XATTR_PRE_LEN) == 0; } --- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h +++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h @@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ ssize_t ovl_getxattr(struct dentry *dent ssize_t ovl_listxattr(struct dentry *dentry, char *list, size_t size); int ovl_removexattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *name); struct inode *ovl_d_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned file_flags); +bool ovl_is_private_xattr(const char *name); struct inode *ovl_new_inode(struct super_block *sb, umode_t mode, struct ovl_entry *oe); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/ovl-listxattr-use-strnlen.patch queue-4.7/ovl-remove-posix_acl_default-from-workdir.patch queue-4.7/ovl-don-t-copy-up-opaqueness.patch queue-4.7/ovl-proper-cleanup-of-workdir.patch queue-4.7/ovl-fix-workdir-creation.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html