[PATCH v2 3/3] ovl: enable fsnotify events on underlying real files

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

Overlayfs creates the real underlying files with fake f_path, whose
f_inode is on the underlying fs and f_path on overlayfs.

Those real files were open with FMODE_NONOTIFY, because fsnotify code was
not prapared to handle fsnotify hooks on files with fake path correctly
and fanotify would report unexpected event->fd with fake overlayfs path,
when the underlying fs was being watched.

Teach fsnotify to handle events on the real files, and do not set real
files to FMODE_NONOTIFY to allow operations on real file (e.g. open,
access, modify, close) to generate async and permission events.

Because fsnotify does not have notifications on address space
operations, we do not need to worry about ->vm_file not reporting
events to a watched overlayfs when users are accessing a mapped
overlayfs file.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/file.c      | 4 ++--
 include/linux/fsnotify.h | 6 ++++--
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
index 39737c2aaa84..61b5faa2b10f 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -34,8 +34,8 @@ static char ovl_whatisit(struct inode *inode, struct inode *realinode)
 		return 'm';
 }
 
-/* No atime modification nor notify on underlying */
-#define OVL_OPEN_FLAGS (O_NOATIME | FMODE_NONOTIFY)
+/* No atime modification on underlying */
+#define OVL_OPEN_FLAGS (O_NOATIME)
 
 static struct file *ovl_open_realfile(const struct file *file,
 				      const struct path *realpath)
diff --git a/include/linux/fsnotify.h b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
index bb8467cd11ae..f4f5db765ec2 100644
--- a/include/linux/fsnotify.h
+++ b/include/linux/fsnotify.h
@@ -91,12 +91,14 @@ static inline void fsnotify_dentry(struct dentry *dentry, __u32 mask)
 
 static inline int fsnotify_file(struct file *file, __u32 mask)
 {
-	const struct path *path = &file->f_path;
+	struct path path;
 
 	if (file->f_mode & FMODE_NONOTIFY)
 		return 0;
 
-	return fsnotify_parent(path->dentry, mask, path, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH);
+	/* Overlayfs internal files have fake f_path */
+	path = f_real_path(file);
+	return fsnotify_parent(path.dentry, mask, &path, FSNOTIFY_EVENT_PATH);
 }
 
 /* Simple call site for access decisions */
-- 
2.34.1