Patch "ovl: mark parent impure on ovl_link()" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    ovl: mark parent impure on ovl_link()

to the 4.12-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-mark-parent-impure-on-ovl_link.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From ea3dad18dc5f778cfd931311a91a9315aa0065a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 15:58:34 +0300
Subject: ovl: mark parent impure on ovl_link()

From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>

commit ea3dad18dc5f778cfd931311a91a9315aa0065a3 upstream.

When linking a file with copy up origin into a new parent, mark the
new parent dir "impure".

Fixes: ee1d6d37b6b8 ("ovl: mark upper dir with type origin entries "impure"")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 fs/overlayfs/dir.c |   22 ++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -478,17 +478,30 @@ out_cleanup:
 }
 
 static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
-			      struct cattr *attr, struct dentry *hardlink)
+			      struct cattr *attr, struct dentry *hardlink,
+			      bool origin)
 {
 	int err;
 	const struct cred *old_cred;
 	struct cred *override_cred;
+	struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
 
-	err = ovl_copy_up(dentry->d_parent);
+	err = ovl_copy_up(parent);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
 	old_cred = ovl_override_creds(dentry->d_sb);
+
+	/*
+	 * When linking a file with copy up origin into a new parent, mark the
+	 * new parent dir "impure".
+	 */
+	if (origin) {
+		err = ovl_set_impure(parent, ovl_dentry_upper(parent));
+		if (err)
+			goto out_revert_creds;
+	}
+
 	err = -ENOMEM;
 	override_cred = prepare_creds();
 	if (override_cred) {
@@ -547,7 +560,7 @@ static int ovl_create_object(struct dent
 	inode_init_owner(inode, dentry->d_parent->d_inode, mode);
 	attr.mode = inode->i_mode;
 
-	err = ovl_create_or_link(dentry, inode, &attr, NULL);
+	err = ovl_create_or_link(dentry, inode, &attr, NULL, false);
 	if (err)
 		iput(inode);
 
@@ -601,7 +614,8 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old,
 	inode = d_inode(old);
 	ihold(inode);
 
-	err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode, NULL, ovl_dentry_upper(old));
+	err = ovl_create_or_link(new, inode, NULL, ovl_dentry_upper(old),
+				 ovl_type_origin(old));
 	if (err)
 		iput(inode);
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@xxxxxxxxx are

queue-4.12/ovl-mark-parent-impure-on-ovl_link.patch
queue-4.12/ovl-fix-random-return-value-on-mount.patch