From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: fix lookup of indexed hardlinks with metacopy
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:22:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200716132220.GA422759@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200715133808.7146-1-amir73il@gmail.com>
On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 04:38:08PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> We recently moved setting inode flag OVL_UPPERDATA to ovl_lookup().
>
> When looking up an overlay dentry, upperdentry may be found by index
> and not by name. In that case, we fail to read the metacopy xattr
> and falsly set the OVL_UPPERDATA on the overlay inode.
>
> This caused a regression in xfstest overlay/033 when run with
> OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o metacopy=on".
>
> Fixes: 28166ab3c875 ("ovl: initialize OVL_UPPERDATA in ovl_lookup()")
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Good catch Amir. Thanks.
> ---
>
> Miklos,
>
> I just ran xfstests -g overlay/quick tests with metacopy enabled
> and one test failed.
>
> Vivek,
>
> Do you by any chance run this sort of test regularly?
No I don't. I will start testing this configuration. Actually I don't
have any automated setup and all the testing I do manually. I think
its time that atleast I have a script which runs bunch of tests
always.
>
> You have asked about running unionmount tests with metacopy before.
> I just pushed a commit to my xfstests 'unionmount' branch:
> 7859f22b ovl: test unionmount tests with metacopy
>
> It allows you to run xfstests -g overlay/union with
> OVERLAY_MOUNT_OPTIONS="-o metacopy=on", to excercise all the unionmount
> test configurations I created with metacopy enabled.
Nice, I will check it out. Will be nice if this gets pushed to
xfstest tree.
Thanks
Vivek
>
> Maybe not so surprising that the sub-group overlay/union.nested tests
> fail with metacopy enabled. This is just a test setup bug and I pushed
> a fix commit to unionmount overlayfs-devel branch to fix it.
>
> Thanks,
> Amir.
>
> fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> index 3566282a9199..0c5a624600c1 100644
> --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c
> @@ -1073,6 +1073,10 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
> upperredirect = NULL;
> goto out_free_oe;
> }
> + err = ovl_check_metacopy_xattr(upperdentry);
> + if (err < 0)
> + goto out_free_oe;
> + uppermetacopy = err;
> }
>
> if (upperdentry || ctr) {
> --
> 2.17.1
>
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2020-07-15 13:38 [PATCH] ovl: fix lookup of indexed hardlinks with metacopy Amir Goldstein
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