From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 32/39] vfs: fix freeze protection in mnt_want_write_file() for overlayfs Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2018 01:50:05 -0700 Message-ID: <20180604085005.GG11333@infradead.org> References: <20180529144339.16538-1-mszeredi@redhat.com> <20180529144339.16538-33-mszeredi@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180529144339.16538-33-mszeredi@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Miklos Szeredi Cc: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 04:43:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > The underlying real file used by overlayfs still contains the overlay path. > This results in mnt_want_write_file() calls by the filesystem getting > freeze protection on the wrong inode (the overlayfs one instead of the real > one). > > Fix by using file_inode(file)->i_sb instead of file->f_path.mnt->mnt_sb. Looks fine: Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig