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ovl: fix d_real() for stacked fs
authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:20:24 +0000 (10:20 +0100)
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Tue, 29 Nov 2016 09:20:24 +0000 (10:20 +0100)
commit197d6d18929ec680db130074107980aaad9ffc5d
treeabf4c9aeaa627cb0c8b56cd06e0325570f055031
parent227ce641993c06c01b6ac0986ced6c2ef6b800df
ovl: fix d_real() for stacked fs

Handling of recursion in d_real() is completely broken.  Recursion is only
done in the 'inode != NULL' case.  But when opening the file we have
'inode == NULL' hence d_real() will return an overlay dentry.  This won't
work since overlayfs doesn't define its own file operations, so all file
ops will fail.

Fix by doing the recursion first and the check against the inode second.

Bash script to reproduce the issue written by Quentin:

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tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
pushd ${tmpdir}

mkdir -p {upper,lower,work}
echo -n 'rocks' > lower/ksplice
mount -t overlay level_zero upper -o lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work
cat upper/ksplice

tmpdir2=$(mktemp -d)
pushd ${tmpdir2}

mkdir -p {upper,work}
mount -t overlay level_one upper -o lowerdir=${tmpdir}/upper,upperdir=upper,workdir=work
ls -l upper/ksplice
cat upper/ksplice
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Reported-by: Quentin Casasnovas <quentin.casasnovas@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: c99cce0c9657 ("vfs: merge .d_select_inode() into .d_real()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.8+
fs/overlayfs/super.c