[PATCH] ovl: skip stale entries in merge dir cache iteration

[Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>]

On the first getdents call, ovl_iterate() populates the readdir cache
with a list of entries, but for upper entries with origin lower inode,
p->ino remains zero.

Following getdents calls traverse the readdir cache list and call
ovl_cache_update_ino() for entries with zero p->ino to lookup the entry
in the overlay and return d_ino that is consistent with st_ino.

If the upper file was unlinked between the first getdents call and the
getdents call that lists the file entry, ovl_cache_update_ino() will not
find the entry and fall back to setting d_ino to the upper real st_ino,
which is inconsistent with how this object was presented to users.

Instead of listing a stale entry with inconsistent d_ino, simply skip
the stale entry, which is better for users.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index cc1e80257064..10b7780e4bdc 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -481,6 +481,8 @@ static int ovl_cache_update_ino(struct path *path, struct ovl_cache_entry *p)
 	}
 	this = lookup_one_len(p->name, dir, p->len);
 	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(this) || !this->d_inode) {
+		/* Mark a stale entry */
+		p->is_whiteout = true;
 		if (IS_ERR(this)) {
 			err = PTR_ERR(this);
 			this = NULL;
@@ -776,6 +778,9 @@ static int ovl_iterate(struct file *file, struct dir_context *ctx)
 				if (err)
 					goto out;
 			}
+		}
+		/* ovl_cache_update_ino() sets is_whiteout on stale entry */
+		if (!p->is_whiteout) {
 			if (!dir_emit(ctx, p->name, p->len, p->ino, p->type))
 				break;
 		}
-- 
2.25.1