[PATCH 10/13] overlayfs: create new inode in ovl_link

Miklos Szeredi
2012-08-15T15:48:59Z

From: Robin Dong <hao.bigrat@gmail.com>

Imaging using ext4 as upperdir which has a file "hello" and lowdir is
totally empty.

1. mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -o lowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper /overlay
2. cd /overlay
3. ln hello bye

then the overlayfs code will call vfs_link to create a real ext4
dentry for "bye" and create
a new overlayfs dentry point to overlayfs inode (which standed for
"hello"). That means:
two overlayfs dentries and only one overlayfs inode.

and then

4. umount /overlay
5. mount -t overlayfs overlayfs -o lowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper
/overlay (again)
6. cd /overlay
7. ls hello bye

the overlayfs will create two inodes(one for the "hello", another
for the "bye") and two dentries (each point a inode).That means:
two dentries and two inodes.

As above, with different order of "create link" and "mount", the
result is not the same.

In order to make the behavior coherent, we need to create inode in ovl_link.

Signed-off-by: Robin Dong <sanbai@taobao.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
---
fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 10 +++++++---
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 6b50823..40650c4 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -417,6 +417,7 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old, struct inode *newdir,
struct dentry *olddentry;
struct dentry *newdentry;
struct dentry *upperdir;
+ struct inode *newinode;

err = ovl_copy_up(old);
if (err)
@@ -441,13 +442,17 @@ static int ovl_link(struct dentry *old, struct inode *newdir,
err = -ENOENT;
goto out_unlock;
}
+ newinode = ovl_new_inode(old->d_sb, newdentry->d_inode->i_mode,
+ new->d_fsdata);
+ if (!newinode)
+ goto link_fail;

ovl_dentry_version_inc(new->d_parent);
ovl_dentry_update(new, newdentry);

- ihold(old->d_inode);
- d_instantiate(new, old->d_inode);
+ d_instantiate(new, newinode);
} else {
+link_fail:
if (ovl_dentry_is_opaque(new))
ovl_whiteout(upperdir, new);
dput(newdentry);
@@ -579,7 +584,6 @@ out_unlock:

const struct inode_operations ovl_dir_inode_operations = {
.lookup = ovl_lookup,
- .atomic_open = ovl_atomic_open,
.mkdir = ovl_mkdir,
.symlink = ovl_symlink,
.unlink = ovl_unlink,
--
1.7.7