Convert to struct mnt_idmap.
Last cycle we merged the necessary infrastructure in
256c8aed2b ("fs: introduce dedicated idmap type for mounts").
This is just the conversion to struct mnt_idmap.
Currently we still pass around the plain namespace that was attached to a
mount. This is in general pretty convenient but it makes it easy to
conflate namespaces that are relevant on the filesystem with namespaces
that are relevent on the mount level. Especially for non-vfs developers
without detailed knowledge in this area this can be a potential source for
bugs.
Once the conversion to struct mnt_idmap is done all helpers down to the
really low-level helpers will take a struct mnt_idmap argument instead of
two namespace arguments. This way it becomes impossible to conflate the two
eliminating the possibility of any bugs. All of the vfs and all filesystems
only operate on struct mnt_idmap.
Acked-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
ovl_indexdir_cleanup() is called on mount of overayfs with nfs_export
feature to cleanup stale index records for lower and upper files that have
been deleted while overlayfs was offline.
This has the side effect (good or bad) of pre populating inode cache with
all the copied up upper inodes, while verifying the index entries.
For copied up directories, the upper file handles are decoded to conncted
upper dentries. This has the even bigger side effect of reading the
content of all the parent upper directories which may take significantly
more time and IO than just reading the upper inodes.
Do not request connceted upper dentries for verifying upper directory index
entries, because we have no use for the connected dentry.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
The "buf" flexible array needs to be the memcpy() destination to avoid
false positive run-time warning from the recent FORTIFY_SOURCE
hardening:
memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 93) of single field "&fh->fb"
at fs/overlayfs/export.c:799 (size 21)
Reported-by: syzbot+9d14351a171d0d1c7955@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/000000000000763a6c05e95a5985@google.com/
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Some code paths cannot guarantee the inode have any dentry alias. So
WARN_ON() all !dentry may flood the kernel logs.
For example, when an overlayfs inode is watched by inotifywait (1), and
someone is trying to read the /proc/$(pidof inotifywait)/fdinfo/INOTIFY_FD,
at that time if the dentry has been reclaimed by kernel (such as
echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches), there will be a WARN_ON(). The
printed call stack would be like:
? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
show_mark_fhandle+0x4a/0xf0
? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
? seq_vprintf+0x30/0x50
? seq_printf+0x53/0x70
? show_mark_fhandle+0xf0/0xf0
inotify_fdinfo+0x70/0x90
show_fdinfo.isra.4+0x53/0x70
seq_show+0x130/0x170
seq_read+0x153/0x440
vfs_read+0x94/0x150
ksys_read+0x5f/0xe0
do_syscall_64+0x59/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xa9
So let's drop WARN_ON() to avoid kernel log flooding.
Reported-by: Hongbo Yin <yinhongbo@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiachen Zhang <zhangjiachen.jaycee@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Tianci Zhang <zhangtianci.1997@bytedance.com>
Fixes: 8ed5eec9d6 ("ovl: encode pure upper file handles")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Make the two places where lookup helpers can be called either on lower
or upper layers take the mount's idmapping into account. To this end we
pass down the mount in struct ovl_lookup_data. It can later also be used
to construct struct path for various other helpers. This is needed to
support idmapped base layers with overlay.
Cc: <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
One error path can result in release_dentry_name_snapshot() being called
before "name" was initialized by take_dentry_name_snapshot().
Fix by moving the release_dentry_name_snapshot() to immediately after the
only use.
Reported-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
This will be used in next patch to be able to change uuid checks and add
uuid nullification based on ofs->config.index for a new "uuid=off" mode.
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tikhomirov <ptikhomirov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding a lower directory file handle to overlay path with cold
inode/dentry cache may go as follows:
1. Decode real lower file handle to lower dir path
2. Check if lower dir is indexed (was copied up)
3. If indexed, get the upper dir path from index
4. Lookup upper dir path in overlay
5. If overlay path found, verify that overlay lower is the lower dir
from step 1
On failure to verify step 5 above, user will get an ESTALE error and a
WARN_ON will be printed.
A mismatch in step 5 could be a result of lower directory that was renamed
while overlay was offline, after that lower directory has been copied up
and indexed.
This is a scripted reproducer based on xfstest overlay/052:
# Create lower subdir
create_dirs
create_test_files $lower/lowertestdir/subdir
mount_dirs
# Copy up lower dir and encode lower subdir file handle
touch $SCRATCH_MNT/lowertestdir
test_file_handles $SCRATCH_MNT/lowertestdir/subdir -p -o $tmp.fhandle
# Rename lower dir offline
unmount_dirs
mv $lower/lowertestdir $lower/lowertestdir.new/
mount_dirs
# Attempt to decode lower subdir file handle
test_file_handles $SCRATCH_MNT -p -i $tmp.fhandle
Since this WARN_ON() can be triggered by user we need to relax it.
Fixes: 4b91c30a5a ("ovl: lookup connected ancestor of dir in inode cache")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Overlayfs doesn't work well with the fanotify mechanism.
Fanotify first probes for the required buffer size for the file handle,
but overlayfs currently bails out without passing the size back.
That results in errors in the kernel log, such as:
[527944.485384] overlayfs: failed to encode file handle (/, err=-75, buflen=0, len=29, type=1)
[527944.485386] fanotify: failed to encode fid (fsid=ae521e68.a434d95f, type=255, bytes=0, err=-2)
Signed-off-by: Lubos Dolezel <lubos@dolezel.info>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
The "buflen" value comes from the user and there is a potential that it
could be zero. In do_handle_to_path() we know that "handle->handle_bytes"
is non-zero and we do:
handle_dwords = handle->handle_bytes >> 2;
So values 1-3 become zero. Then in ovl_fh_to_dentry() we do:
int len = fh_len << 2;
So now len is in the "0,4-128" range and a multiple of 4. But if
"buflen" is zero it will try to copy negative bytes when we do the
memcpy in ovl_fid_to_fh().
memcpy(&fh->fb, fid, buflen - OVL_FH_WIRE_OFFSET);
And that will lead to a crash. Thanks to Amir Goldstein for his help
with this patch.
Fixes: cbe7fba8ed ("ovl: make sure that real fid is 32bit aligned in memory")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.5
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
The situation is the same as for __d_obtain_alias() (which is what that
thing is parallel to) - if we find a preexisting alias, we want to grab it,
drop the inode and return the alias we'd found.
The only thing d_instantiate_anon() does compared to that is spurious
security_d_instiate() that has already been done to that dentry with exact
same arguments.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Allow completely skipping ->revalidate() on a per-dentry basis, in case the
underlying layers used for a dentry do not themselves have ->revalidate().
E.g. negative overlay dentry has no underlying layers, hence revalidate is
unnecessary. Or if lower layer is remote but overlay dentry is pure-upper,
then can skip revalidate.
The following places need to update whether the dentry needs revalidate or
not:
- fill-super (root dentry)
- lookup
- create
- fh_to_dentry
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Rename lower_layers[] array to layers[], extend its size by one and
initialize layers[0] with upper layer values. Lower layers are now
addressed with index 1..numlower. layers[0] is reserved even with lower
only overlay.
[SzM: replace ofs->numlower with ofs->numlayer, the latter's value is
incremented by one]
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Seprate on-disk encoding from in-memory and on-wire resresentation
of overlay file handle.
In-memory and on-wire we only ever pass around pointers to struct
ovl_fh, which encapsulates at offset 3 the on-disk format struct
ovl_fb. struct ovl_fb encapsulates at offset 21 the real file handle.
That makes sure that the real file handle is always 32bit aligned
in-memory when passed down to the underlying filesystem.
On-disk format remains the same and store/load are done into
correctly aligned buffer.
New nfs exported file handles are exported with aligned real fid.
Old nfs file handles are copied to an aligned buffer before being
decoded.
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
if ovl_encode_real_fh() fails, no memory was allocated
and the error in the error-valued pointer should be returned.
Fixes: 9b6faee074 ("ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()")
Signed-off-by: Ding Xiang <dingxiang@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.16+
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Based on 2 normalized pattern(s):
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation
this program is free software you can redistribute it and or modify
it under the terms of the gnu general public license version 2 as
published by the free software foundation #
extracted by the scancode license scanner the SPDX license identifier
GPL-2.0-only
has been chosen to replace the boilerplate/reference in 4122 file(s).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Enrico Weigelt <info@metux.net>
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190604081206.933168790@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When decoding a lower file handle, we first call ovl_check_origin_fh()
with connected=false to get any real lower dentry for overlay inode
cache lookup.
If the real dentry is a disconnected dir dentry, ovl_check_origin_fh()
is called again with connected=true to get a connected real dentry
and find the lower layer the real dentry belongs to.
If the first call returned a connected real dentry, we use it to
lookup an overlay connected dentry, but the first ovl_check_origin_fh()
call with connected=false did not check that the found dentry is under
the root of the layer (see ovl_acceptable()), it only checked that
the found dentry super block matches the uuid of the lower file handle.
In case there are multiple lower layers on the same fs and the found
dentry is not from the top most lower layer, using the layer index
returned from the first ovl_check_origin_fh() is wrong and we end
up failing to decode the file handle.
Fix this by always calling ovl_check_origin_fh() with connected=true
if we got a directory dentry in the first call.
Fixes: 8b58924ad5 ("ovl: lookup in inode cache first when decoding...")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.17
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
This patch modifies ovl_lookup() and friends to lookup metacopy dentries.
It also allows for presence of metacopy dentries in lower layer.
During lookup, check for presence of OVL_XATTR_METACOPY and if not present,
set OVL_UPPERDATA bit in flags.
We don't support metacopy feature with nfs_export. So in nfs_export code,
we set OVL_UPPERDATA flag set unconditionally if upper inode exists.
Do not follow metacopy origin if we find a metacopy only inode and metacopy
feature is not enabled for that mount. Like redirect, this can have
security implications where an attacker could hand craft upper and try to
gain access to file on lower which it should not have to begin with.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
ovl_get_inode() right now has 5 parameters. Soon this patch series will
add 2 more and suddenly argument list starts looking too long.
Hence pass arguments to ovl_get_inode() in a structure and it looks
little cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
When overlay layers are not all on the same fs, but all inode numbers
of underlying fs do not use the high 'xino' bits, overlay st_ino values
are constant and persistent.
In that case, set i_ino value to the same value as st_ino for nfsd
readdirplus validator.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
When decoding a lower file handle, we need to check if lower file was
copied up and indexed and if it has a whiteout index, we need to check
if this is an unlinked but open non-dir before returning -ESTALE.
To find out if this is an unlinked but open non-dir we need to lookup
an overlay inode in inode cache by lower inode and that requires decoding
the lower file handle before looking in inode cache.
Before this change, if the lower inode turned out to be a directory, we
may have paid an expensive cost to reconnect that lower directory for
nothing.
After this change, we start by decoding a disconnected lower dentry and
using the lower inode for looking up an overlay inode in inode cache.
If we find overlay inode and dentry in cache, we avoid the index lookup
overhead. If we don't find an overlay inode and dentry in cache, then we
only need to decode a connected lower dentry in case the lower dentry is
a non-indexed directory.
The xfstests group overlay/exportfs tests decoding overlayfs file
handles after drop_caches with different states of the file at encode
and decode time. Overall the tests in the group call ovl_lower_fh_to_d()
89 times to decode a lower file handle.
Before this change, the tests called ovl_get_index_fh() 75 times and
reconnect_one() 61 times.
After this change, the tests call ovl_get_index_fh() 70 times and
reconnect_one() 59 times. The 2 cases where reconnect_one() was avoided
are cases where a non-upper directory file handle was encoded, then the
directory removed and then file handle was decoded.
To demonstrate the affect on decoding file handles with hot inode/dentry
cache, the drop_caches call in the tests was disabled. Without
drop_caches, there are no reconnect_one() calls at all before or after
the change. Before the change, there are 75 calls to ovl_get_index_fh(),
exactly as the case with drop_caches. After the change, there are only
10 calls to ovl_get_index_fh().
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
On lookup of non directory, we try to decode the origin file handle
stored in upper inode. The origin file handle is supposed to be decoded
to a disconnected non-dir dentry, which is fine, because we only need
the lower inode of a copy up origin.
However, if the origin file handle somehow turns out to be a directory
we pay the expensive cost of reconnecting the directory dentry, only to
get a mismatch file type and drop the dentry.
Optimize this case by explicitly opting out of reconnecting the dentry.
Opting-out of reconnect is done by passing a NULL acceptable callback
to exportfs_decode_fh().
While the case described above is a strange corner case that does not
really need to be optimized, the API added for this optimization will
be used by a following patch to optimize a more common case of decoding
an overlayfs file handle.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Rename ovl_encode_fh() to ovl_encode_real_fh() to differentiate from the
exportfs function ovl_encode_inode_fh() and change the latter to
ovl_encode_fh() to match the exportfs method name.
Rename ovl_decode_fh() to ovl_decode_real_fh() for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
fs/overlayfs/export.c:459:10-16: WARNING: PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO can be used
Use PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO rather than if(IS_ERR(...)) + PTR_ERR
Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/ptr_ret.cocci
Fixes: 4b91c30a5a ("ovl: lookup connected ancestor of dir in inode cache")
CC: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
This change relaxes copy up on encode of merge dir with lower layer > 1
and handles the case of encoding a merge dir with lower layer 1, where an
ancestor is a non-indexed merge dir. In that case, decode of the lower
file handle will not have been possible if the non-indexed ancestor is
redirected before or after encode.
Before encoding a non-upper directory file handle from real layer N, we
need to check if it will be possible to reconnect an overlay dentry from
the real lower decoded dentry. This is done by following the overlay
ancestry up to a "layer N connected" ancestor and verifying that all
parents along the way are "layer N connectable". If an ancestor that is
NOT "layer N connectable" is found, we need to copy up an ancestor, which
is "layer N connectable", thus making that ancestor "layer N connected".
For example:
layer 1: /a
layer 2: /a/b/c
The overlay dentry /a is NOT "layer 2 connectable", because if dir /a is
copied up and renamed, upper dir /a will be indexed by lower dir /a from
layer 1. The dir /a from layer 2 will never be indexed, so the algorithm
in ovl_lookup_real_ancestor() (*) will not be able to lookup a connected
overlay dentry from the connected lower dentry /a/b/c.
To avoid this problem on decode time, we need to copy up an ancestor of
/a/b/c, which is "layer 2 connectable", on encode time. That ancestor is
/a/b. After copy up (and index) of /a/b, it will become "layer 2 connected"
and when the time comes to decode the file handle from lower dentry /a/b/c,
ovl_lookup_real_ancestor() will find the indexed ancestor /a/b and decoding
a connected overlay dentry will be accomplished.
(*) the algorithm in ovl_lookup_real_ancestor() can be improved to lookup
an entry /a in the lower layers above layer N and find the indexed dir /a
from layer 1. If that improvement is made, then the check for "layer N
connected" will need to verify there are no redirects in lower layers above
layer N. In the example above, /a will be "layer 2 connectable". However,
if layer 2 dir /a is a target of a layer 1 redirect, then /a will NOT be
"layer 2 connectable":
layer 1: /A (redirect = /a)
layer 2: /a/b/c
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Another fix for an issue reported by 0-day robot.
Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Fixes: 8ed5eec9d6 ("ovl: encode pure upper file handles")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
ovl_lookup_real() in lower layer walks back lower parents to find the
topmost indexed parent. If an indexed ancestor is found before reaching
lower layer root, ovl_lookup_real() is called recursively with upper
layer to walk back from indexed upper to the topmost connected/hashed
upper parent (or up to root).
ovl_lookup_real() in upper layer then walks forward to connect the topmost
upper overlay dir dentry and ovl_lookup_real() in lower layer continues to
walk forward to connect the decoded lower overlay dir dentry.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding a dir file handle requires walking backward up to layer root and
for lower dir also checking the index to see if any of the parents have
been copied up.
Lookup overlay ancestor dentry in inode/dentry cache by decoded real
parents to shortcut looking up all the way back to layer root.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Similar to decoding a pure upper dir file handle, decoding a pure lower
dir file handle is implemented by looking an overlay dentry of the same
path as the pure lower path and verifying that the overlay dentry's
real lower matches the decoded real lower file handle.
Unlike the case of upper dir file handle, the lookup of overlay path by
lower real path can fail or find a mismatched overlay dentry if any of
the lower parents have been copied up and renamed. To address this case
we will need to check if any of the lower parents are indexed.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding an indexed dir file handle is done by looking up the file handle
in index dir by name and then decoding the upper dir from the index origin
file handle. The decoded upper path is used to lookup an overlay dentry of
the same path.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Lookup overlay inode in cache by origin inode, so we can decode a file
handle of an open file even if the index has a whiteout index entry to
mark this overlay inode was unlinked.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding an indexed non-dir file handle is similar to decoding a lower
non-dir file handle, but additionally, we lookup the file handle in index
dir by name to find the real upper inode.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding a lower non-dir file handle is done by decoding the lower dentry
from underlying lower fs, finding or allocating an overlay inode that is
hashed by the real lower inode and instantiating an overlay dentry with
that inode.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
For indexed or lower non-dir, encode a non-connectable lower file handle
from origin inode. For indexed or lower dir, when ofs->numlower == 1,
encode a lower file handle from lower dir.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding a merge dir, whose origin's parent is under a redirected
lower dir is not always possible. As a simple aproximation, we do
not encode lower dir file handles when overlay has multiple lower
layers and origin is below the topmost lower layer.
We should later relax this condition and copy up only the parent
that is under a redirected lower.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
We only need to encode origin if there is a chance that the same object was
encoded pre copy up and then we need to stay consistent with the same
encoding also after copy up.
In case a non-pure upper is not indexed, then it was copied up before NFS
export support was enabled. In that case, we don't need to worry about
staying consistent with pre copy up encoding and we encode an upper file
handle.
This mitigates the problem that with no index, we cannot find an upper
inode from origin inode, so we cannot decode a non-indexed upper from
origin file handle.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Until this change, we decoded upper file handles by instantiating an
overlay dentry from the real upper dentry. This is sufficient to handle
pure upper files, but insufficient to handle merge/impure dirs.
To that end, if decoded real upper dir is connected and hashed, we
lookup an overlay dentry with the same path as the real upper dir.
If decoded real upper is non-dir, we instantiate a disconnected overlay
dentry as before this change.
Because ovl_fh_to_dentry() returns a connected overlay dir dentry,
exportfs never needs to call get_parent() and get_name() to reconnect an
upper overlay dir. Because connectable non-dir file handles are not
supported, exportfs will not be able to use fh_to_parent() and get_name()
methods to reconnect a disconnected non-dir to its parent. Therefore, the
methods get_parent() and get_name() are implemented just to print out a
sanity warning and the method fh_to_parent() is implemented to warn the
user that using the 'subtree_check' exportfs option is not supported.
An alternative approach could have been to implement instantiating of
an overlay directory inode from origin/index and implement get_parent()
and get_name() by calling into underlying fs operations and them
instantiating the overlay parent dir.
The reasons for not choosing the get_parent() approach were:
- Obtaining a disconnected overlay dir dentry would requires a
delicate re-factoring of ovl_lookup() to get a dentry with overlay
parent info. It was preferred to avoid doing that re-factoring unless
it was proven worthy.
- Going down the path of disconnected dir would mean that the (non
trivial) code path of d_splice_alias() could be traveled and that
meant writing more tests and introduces race cases that are very hard
to hit on purpose. Taking the path of connecting overlay dentry by
forward lookup is therefore the safe and boring way to avoid surprises.
The culprits of the chosen "connected overlay dentry" approach:
- We need to take special care to rename of ancestors while connecting
the overlay dentry by real dentry path. These subtleties are usually
handled by generic exportfs and VFS code.
- In a hypothetical workload, we could end up in a loop trying to connect,
interrupted by rename and restarting connect forever.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Decoding an upper file handle is done by decoding the upper dentry from
underlying upper fs, finding or allocating an overlay inode that is
hashed by the real upper inode and instantiating an overlay dentry with
that inode.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Encode overlay file handles as struct ovl_fh containing the file handle
encoding of the real upper inode.
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
