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From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix nested overlayfs mount
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:28:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfpegsBgNa0AYibyDwq-B5R5a7R6y6zMvmwzzBJXDNee-tv_A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1479288159-20396-1-git-send-email-amir73il@gmail.com>

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> wrote:
> The introduction of overlayfs features broke nested mounting
> of overlayfs as lowerdir of another overlayfs mount.
>
> When the upper overlayfs checks overlayfs features xattr
> on the underlying overlayfs mount, it gets -EPERM and aborts.
>
> Fix this by returning -ENODATA instead of -EPERM from
> ovl_own_xattr_get().  This behavior is consistent with the
> behavior of ovl_listxattr(), which filters out the private
> overlayfs xattrs.

Yes, it makes sense regardless of the features xattr.

Applied.

Thanks,
Miklos

      reply	other threads:[~2016-11-16  9:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-16  9:22 [PATCH] ovl: fix nested overlayfs mount Amir Goldstein
2016-11-16  9:28 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]

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