Commit fbaf94ee authored Jun 28, 2017 by Miklos Szeredi

ovl: don't set origin on broken lower hardlink



When copying up a file that has multiple hard links we need to break any
association with the origin file.  This makes copy-up be essentially an
atomic replace.

The new file has nothing to do with the old one (except having the same
data and metadata initially), so don't set the overlay.origin attribute.

We can relax this in the future when we are able to index upper object by
origin.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 3a1e819b ("ovl: store file handle of lower inode on copy up")

parent e85f82ff

fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c

+8 −3

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -392,10 +392,15 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct dentry workdir, struct dentry upperdir,
		/*
		* Store identifier of lower inode in upper inode xattr to
		* allow lookup of the copy up origin inode.
		*
		* Don't set origin when we are breaking the association with a lower
		* hard link.
		*/
		if (S_ISDIR(stat->mode) \|\| stat->nlink == 1) {
		err = ovl_set_origin(dentry, lowerpath->dentry, temp);
		if (err)
		goto out_cleanup;
		}

		upper = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, upperdir,
		dentry->d_name.len);

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