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From: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
To: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, amir73il@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	brauner@kernel.org, jack@suse.cz, paul@paul-moore.com,
	serge@hallyn.com, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fs: fix user path of nested backing files
Date: Tue,  4 Aug 2026 11:42:04 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260804034204.3487077-1-libaokun@linux.alibaba.com> (raw)

backing_file_open() derives the path to be stored in the new backing
file from user_file->f_path.  This is incorrect when user_file itself
is a backing file, which is the case for nested stacking filesystems,
e.g. overlayfs mounts where the lowerdir of one overlayfs is the merged
directory of another.  Since commit def3ae83da02 ("fs: store real path
instead of fake path in backing file f_path") the f_path of a backing
file holds the real path of the intermediate layer, not the path that
the user opened.

Commit 924577e4f6ca ("ovl: Fix nested backing file paths") fixed this
for such configurations by passing file_user_path() from
ovl_open_realfile().  However, commit 6af36aeb147a ("lsm: add
backing_file LSM hooks") changed the first argument of
backing_file_open() from the user path back to the user file and
derived the path from user_file->f_path again, silently re-introducing
the problem.

As a result, files mapped through a nested overlayfs show the wrong
path in /proc/<pid>/maps and in perf/ftrace mmap records.  For example,
with two nested overlayfs mounts:

  mkdir -p /ovl/{lower,upper,work,merged} /ovl/nested
  echo hello > /ovl/lower/foo
  mount -t overlay overlay \
	-o lowerdir=/ovl/lower,upperdir=/ovl/upper,workdir=/ovl/work \
	/ovl/merged
  # at least two lowerdirs are needed when upperdir is nonexistent
  mount -t overlay overlay \
	-o lowerdir=/ovl/merged:/ovl/lower /ovl/nested

mapping /ovl/nested/foo shows a disconnected path instead of the user
path:

  # readlink /proc/self/fd/3
  /ovl/nested/foo
  # grep foo /proc/self/maps
  7f6e2c100000-7f6e2c101000 r--s 00000000 00:24 15813027 /foo

The bogus path is derived from the f_path of the intermediate backing
file, whose mount is a private clone that d_path() cannot resolve.

Fix this by using file_user_path(), which returns the outermost
user-visible path for backing files and falls back to
&user_file->f_path for regular files.  This restores the behavior of
commit 924577e4f6ca ("ovl: Fix nested backing file paths") for
overlayfs and also fixes the same problem for the other
backing_file_open() callers, fuse passthrough and erofs ishare, when
their user file is itself a backing file.

backing_tmpfile_open() has the same pattern but is not affected: it is
only called by ovl_create_tmpfile() for the upper layer, and another
overlayfs is rejected as upperdir by the DCACHE_OP_REAL check in
ovl_mount_dir_check(), so its user_file can never be a backing file.

Fixes: 6af36aeb147a ("lsm: add backing_file LSM hooks")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun@linux.alibaba.com>
---
 fs/backing-file.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/backing-file.c b/fs/backing-file.c
index 080c99696cd0..cc101143f921 100644
--- a/fs/backing-file.c
+++ b/fs/backing-file.c
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ struct file *backing_file_open(const struct file *user_file, int flags,
 			       const struct path *real_path,
 			       const struct cred *cred)
 {
-	const struct path *user_path = &user_file->f_path;
+	const struct path *user_path = file_user_path(user_file);
 	struct file *f;
 	int error;
 
-- 
2.43.7


             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-04  3:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-08-04  3:42 Baokun Li [this message]
2026-08-04 17:00 ` [PATCH] fs: fix user path of nested backing files Paul Moore
2026-08-12  7:27 ` Christian Brauner

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