From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix nested overlayfs mount
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 10:28:17 +0100
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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