From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ovl: temporarily disable appending lowedirs
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2023 10:03:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20231016-siehst-vorfreude-f4a681ed4efd@brauner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231014195353.2103095-1-amir73il@gmail.com>
On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 10:53:53PM +0300, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Kernel v6.5 converted overlayfs to new mount api.
> As an added bonus, it also added a feature to allow appending lowerdirs
> using lowerdir=:/lower2,lowerdir=::/data3 syntax.
>
> This new syntax has raised some concerns regarding escaping of colons.
> We decided to try and disable this syntax, which hasn't been in the wild
> for so long and introduce it again in 6.7 using explicit mount options
> lowerdir+=/lower2,datadir+=/data3.
>
> Suggested-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAJfpegsr3A4YgF2YBevWa6n3=AcP7hNndG6EPMu3ncvV-AM71A@mail.gmail.com/
> Fixes: b36a5780cb44 ("ovl: modify layer parameter parsing")
> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
> ---
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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2023-10-14 19:53 [PATCH] ovl: temporarily disable appending lowedirs Amir Goldstein
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