Re: overlay2: backporting a copy_file_range bug fix in Linux 5.6 to 5.10?

[Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2021 at 22:31, Stan Hu <stanhu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> A number of users have reported that under certain conditions using
> Docker and overlay2, copy_file_range() can unexpectedly create a
> 0-byte file: In https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/1015.
>
> We started seeing mysterious failures in our CI tests as a result of
> files not properly being copied.
>
> https://github.com/docker/for-linux/issues/1015#issuecomment-841915668
> has a sample reproduction test.
>
> I analyzed the diff between 5.10 and 5.11 and found that if I applied
> the following kernel patch, the reproduction test passes:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20201207163255.564116-6-mszeredi@redhat.com/#t
>
> This landed in this merge commit and this commit:
>
> 1. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/92dbc9dedccb9759c7f9f2f0ae6242396376988f
> 2. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/82a763e61e2b601309d696d4fa514c77d64ee1be
>
> Could this patch be backported for kernels 5.6 to 5.10?

Yes, looks like the patch can be backported.

Note:  you also need to backport this commit which is a fix for the first one:

9b91b6b019fd ("ovl: fix deadlock in splice write")

Thanks,
Miklos