Commit 9c6d8f13 authored Nov 17, 2019 by Amir Goldstein Committed by Miklos Szeredi Dec 10, 2019

ovl: fix corner case of non-unique st_dev;st_ino



On non-samefs overlay without xino, non pure upper inodes should use a
pseudo_dev assigned to each unique lower fs and pure upper inodes use the
real upper st_dev.

It is fine for an overlay pure upper inode to use the same st_dev;st_ino
values as the real upper inode, because the content of those two different
filesystem objects is always the same.

In this case, however:
 - two filesystems, A and B
 - upper layer is on A
 - lower layer 1 is also on A
 - lower layer 2 is on B

Non pure upper overlay inode, whose origin is in layer 1 will have the same
st_dev;st_ino values as the real lower inode. This may result with a false
positive results of 'diff' between the real lower and copied up overlay
inode.

Fix this by using the upper st_dev;st_ino values in this case.  This breaks
the property of constant st_dev;st_ino across copy up of this case. This
breakage will be fixed by a later patch.

Fixes: 5148626b ("ovl: allocate anon bdev per unique lower fs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.17+
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

parent ec7bbb53

fs/overlayfs/inode.c

+7 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -200,8 +200,14 @@ int ovl_getattr(const struct path path, struct kstat stat,
		if (ovl_test_flag(OVL_INDEX, d_inode(dentry)) \|\|
		(!ovl_verify_lower(dentry->d_sb) &&
		(is_dir \|\| lowerstat.nlink == 1))) {
		stat->ino = lowerstat.ino;
		lower_layer = ovl_layer_lower(dentry);
		/*
		* Cannot use origin st_dev;st_ino because
		* origin inode content may differ from overlay
		* inode content.
		*/
		if (samefs \|\| lower_layer->fsid)
		stat->ino = lowerstat.ino;
		}

		/*

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