From: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
To: "André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>,
Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
kernel-dev@igalia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 3/9] ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 06:42:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a53n65sk.fsf@mailhost.krisman.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250822-tonyk-overlayfs-v6-3-8b6e9e604fa2@igalia.com> ("André Almeida"'s message of "Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:17:06 -0300")
André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com> writes:
> Prepare for mounting layers with case-insensitive dentries in order to
> supporting such layers in overlayfs, while enforcing uniform casefold
> layers.
>
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <gabriel@krisman.be>
> ---
> fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h | 1 +
> fs/overlayfs/params.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> fs/overlayfs/params.h | 1 +
> 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h b/fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h
> index 4c1bae935ced274f93a0d23fe10d34455e226ec4..1d4828dbcf7ac4ba9657221e601bbf79d970d225 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h
> @@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ struct ovl_fs {
> struct mutex whiteout_lock;
> /* r/o snapshot of upperdir sb's only taken on volatile mounts */
> errseq_t errseq;
> + bool casefold;
> };
>
> /* Number of lower layers, not including data-only layers */
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/params.c b/fs/overlayfs/params.c
> index f4e7fff909ac49e2f8c58a76273426c1158a7472..63b7346c5ee1c127a9c33b12c3704aa035ff88cf 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/params.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/params.c
> @@ -276,17 +276,26 @@ static int ovl_mount_dir(const char *name, struct path *path)
> static int ovl_mount_dir_check(struct fs_context *fc, const struct path *path,
> enum ovl_opt layer, const char *name, bool upper)
> {
> + bool is_casefolded = ovl_dentry_casefolded(path->dentry);
> struct ovl_fs_context *ctx = fc->fs_private;
> + struct ovl_fs *ofs = fc->s_fs_info;
>
> if (!d_is_dir(path->dentry))
> return invalfc(fc, "%s is not a directory", name);
>
> /*
> * Allow filesystems that are case-folding capable but deny composing
> - * ovl stack from case-folded directories.
> + * ovl stack from inconsistent case-folded directories.
> */
> - if (ovl_dentry_casefolded(path->dentry))
> - return invalfc(fc, "case-insensitive directory on %s not supported", name);
> + if (!ctx->casefold_set) {
> + ofs->casefold = is_casefolded;
> + ctx->casefold_set = true;
> + }
> +
> + if (ofs->casefold != is_casefolded) {
> + return invalfc(fc, "case-%ssensitive directory on %s is inconsistent",
> + is_casefolded ? "in" : "", name);
> + }
>
> if (ovl_dentry_weird(path->dentry))
> return invalfc(fc, "filesystem on %s not supported", name);
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/params.h b/fs/overlayfs/params.h
> index c96d939820211ddc63e265670a2aff60d95eec49..ffd53cdd84827cce827e8852f2de545f966ce60d 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/params.h
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/params.h
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ struct ovl_fs_context {
> struct ovl_opt_set set;
> struct ovl_fs_context_layer *lower;
> char *lowerdir_all; /* user provided lowerdir string */
> + bool casefold_set;
> };
>
> int ovl_init_fs_context(struct fs_context *fc);
--
Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-25 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-22 14:17 [PATCH v6 0/9] ovl: Enable support for casefold layers André Almeida
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 1/9] fs: Create sb_encoding() helper André Almeida
2025-08-25 9:19 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-25 12:38 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-25 15:28 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 2/9] fs: Create sb_same_encoding() helper André Almeida
2025-08-23 10:02 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-25 9:24 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 3/9] ovl: Prepare for mounting case-insensitive enabled layers André Almeida
2025-08-25 10:42 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi [this message]
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 4/9] ovl: Create ovl_casefold() to support casefolded strncmp() André Almeida
2025-08-22 16:53 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-25 11:09 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-25 15:27 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-25 15:45 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-25 17:11 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-26 1:34 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-26 7:19 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-26 15:02 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-26 19:58 ` André Almeida
2025-08-27 9:28 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-26 20:01 ` André Almeida
2025-08-27 20:45 ` André Almeida
2025-08-28 11:09 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 5/9] ovl: Ensure that all layers have the same encoding André Almeida
2025-08-25 11:17 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-25 15:32 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-26 20:12 ` André Almeida
2025-08-27 9:17 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 6/9] ovl: Set case-insensitive dentry operations for ovl sb André Almeida
2025-08-25 11:24 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-25 15:34 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-26 20:13 ` André Almeida
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 7/9] ovl: Add S_CASEFOLD as part of the inode flag to be copied André Almeida
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 8/9] ovl: Check for casefold consistency when creating new dentries André Almeida
2025-08-22 14:17 ` [PATCH v6 9/9] ovl: Support mounting case-insensitive enabled layers André Almeida
2025-08-22 16:34 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-22 16:47 ` André Almeida
2025-08-22 19:17 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-25 13:31 ` André Almeida
2025-08-26 7:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-26 19:01 ` André Almeida
2025-08-27 18:06 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-27 20:37 ` André Almeida
2025-08-27 23:58 ` NeilBrown
2025-08-28 3:15 ` Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2025-08-28 7:25 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-28 16:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-08-29 1:27 ` NeilBrown
2025-08-29 1:25 ` NeilBrown
2025-08-29 9:31 ` Amir Goldstein
2025-09-01 22:02 ` NeilBrown
2025-08-22 19:28 ` [syzbot ci] Re: ovl: Enable support for casefold layers syzbot ci
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