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authorMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2016-07-29 12:05:24 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2016-08-20 18:09:19 +0200
commit54c4ddcbab7396c58e1fc745663417ad7e872137 (patch)
treee57ca57251f03784759a09b352abf395fea38e1b /fs/overlayfs
parent7a2cfda740e60097c1369c274d2772af9d073b76 (diff)
ovl: disallow overlayfs as upperdir
commit 76bc8e2843b66f8205026365966b49ec6da39ae7 upstream. This does not work and does not make sense. So instead of fixing it (probably not hard) just disallow. Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index a1acc6004a91..70a7bbe199d0 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ static struct ovl_entry *ovl_alloc_entry(unsigned int numlower)
static bool ovl_dentry_remote(struct dentry *dentry)
{
return dentry->d_flags &
- (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE);
+ (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE |
+ DCACHE_OP_REAL);
}
static bool ovl_dentry_weird(struct dentry *dentry)