kernel/linux.git/fs/overlayfs, branch v6.12.80

ovl: make fsync after metadata copy-up opt-in mount option

2026-04-02T11:09:50+00:00

commit 1f6ee9be92f8df85a8c9a5a78c20fd39c0c21a95 upstream. Commit 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") was done to fix durability of overlayfs copy up on an upper filesystem which does not enforce ordering on storing of metadata changes (e.g. ubifs). In an earlier revision of the regressing commit by Lei Lv, the metadata fsync behavior was opt-in via a new "fsync=strict" mount option. We were hoping that the opt-in mount option could be avoided, so the change was only made to depend on metacopy=off, in the hope of not hurting performance of metadata heavy workloads, which are more likely to be using metacopy=on. This hope was proven wrong by a performance regression report from Google COS workload after upgrade to kernel 6.12. This is an adaptation of Lei's original "fsync=strict" mount option to the existing upstream code. The new mount option is mutually exclusive with the "volatile" mount option, so the latter is now an alias to the "fsync=volatile" mount option. Reported-by: Chenglong Tang Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOdxtTadAFH01Vui1FvWfcmQ8jH1O45owTzUcpYbNvBxnLeM7Q@mail.gmail.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxgKC1SgjMWre=fUb00v8rxtd6sQi-S+dxR8oDzAuiGu8g@mail.gmail.com/ Fixes: 7d6899fb69d25 ("ovl: fsync after metadata copy-up") Depends: 50e638beb67e0 ("ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.12+ Signed-off-by: Fei Lv Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: Use str_on_off() helper in ovl_show_options()

2026-04-02T11:09:50+00:00

commit 50e638beb67e020a9124d77bd8a88bde3cd380e3 upstream. Remove hard-coded strings by using the str_on_off() helper function. Acked-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: fix wrong detection of 32bit inode numbers

2026-04-02T11:09:44+00:00

commit 53a7c171e9dd833f0a96b545adcb89bd57387239 upstream. The implicit FILEID_INO32_GEN encoder was changed to be explicit, so we need to fix the detection. When mounting overlayfs with upperdir and lowerdir on different ext4 filesystems, the expected kmsg log is: overlayfs: "xino" feature enabled using 32 upper inode bits. But instead, since the regressing commit, the kmsg log was: overlayfs: "xino" feature enabled using 2 upper inode bits. Fixes: e21fc2038c1b9 ("exportfs: make ->encode_fh() a mandatory method for NFS export") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.7+ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: Fix uninit-value in ovl_fill_real

2026-03-04T12:20:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1992330d90dd766fcf1730fd7bf2d6af65370ac4 ] Syzbot reported a KMSAN uninit-value issue in ovl_fill_real. This iusse's call chain is: __do_sys_getdents64() -> iterate_dir() ... -> ext4_readdir() -> fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() // alloc -> fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr // write without tail '\0' -> dir_emit() -> ovl_fill_real() // read by strcmp() The string is used to store the decrypted directory entry name for an encrypted inode. As shown in the call chain, fscrypt_fname_disk_to_usr() write it without null-terminate. However, ovl_fill_real() uses strcmp() to compare the name against "..", which assumes a null-terminated string and may trigger a KMSAN uninit-value warning when the buffer tail contains uninit data. Reported-by: syzbot+d130f98b2c265fae5297@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=d130f98b2c265fae5297 Fixes: 4edb83bb1041 ("ovl: constant d_ino for non-merge dirs") Signed-off-by: Qing Wang Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260128132406.23768-2-amir73il@gmail.com Acked-by: Miklos Szeredi Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ovl: use I_MUTEX_PARENT when locking parent in ovl_create_temp()

2025-08-28T14:31:10+00:00

commit 5f1c8965e748c150d580a2ea8fbee1bd80d07a24 upstream. ovl_create_temp() treats "workdir" as a parent in which it creates an object so it should use I_MUTEX_PARENT. Prior to the commit identified below the lock was taken by the caller which sometimes used I_MUTEX_PARENT and sometimes used I_MUTEX_NORMAL. The use of I_MUTEX_NORMAL was incorrect but unfortunately copied into ovl_create_temp(). Note to backporters: This patch only applies after the last Fixes given below (post v6.16). To fix the bug in v6.7 and later the inode_lock() call in ovl_copy_up_workdir() needs to nest using I_MUTEX_PARENT. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67a72070.050a0220.3d72c.0022.GAE@google.com/ Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: syzbot+7836a68852a10ec3d790@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+7836a68852a10ec3d790@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Fixes: c63e56a4a652 ("ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held") Fixes: d2c995581c7c ("ovl: Call ovl_create_temp() without lock held.") Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: Check for NULL d_inode() in ovl_dentry_upper()

2025-07-06T09:01:36+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8a39f1c870e9d6fbac5638f3a42a6a6363829c49 ] In ovl_path_type() and ovl_is_metacopy_dentry() GCC notices that it is possible for OVL_E() to return NULL (which implies that d_inode(dentry) may be NULL). This would result in out of bounds reads via container_of(), seen with GCC 15's -Warray-bounds -fdiagnostics-details. For example: In file included from arch/x86/include/generated/asm/rwonce.h:1, from include/linux/compiler.h:339, from include/linux/export.h:5, from include/linux/linkage.h:7, from include/linux/fs.h:5, from fs/overlayfs/util.c:7: In function 'ovl_upperdentry_dereference', inlined from 'ovl_dentry_upper' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:305:9, inlined from 'ovl_path_type' at ../fs/overlayfs/util.c:216:6: include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:44:26: error: array subscript 0 is outside array bounds of 'struct inode[7486503276667837]' [-Werror=array-bounds=] 44 | #define __READ_ONCE(x) (*(const volatile __unqual_scalar_typeof(x) *)&(x)) | ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:50:9: note: in expansion of macro '__READ_ONCE' 50 | __READ_ONCE(x); \ | ^~~~~~~~~~~ fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h:195:16: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE' 195 | return READ_ONCE(oi->__upperdentry); | ^~~~~~~~~ 'ovl_path_type': event 1 185 | return inode ? OVL_I(inode)->oe : NULL; 'ovl_path_type': event 2 Avoid this by allowing ovl_dentry_upper() to return NULL if d_inode() is NULL, as that means the problematic dereferencing can never be reached. Note that this fixes the over-eager compiler warning in an effort to being able to enable -Warray-bounds globally. There is no known behavioral bug here. Suggested-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ovl: Fix nested backing file paths

2025-06-27T10:11:24+00:00

commit 924577e4f6ca473de1528953a0e13505fae61d7b upstream. When the lowerdir of an overlayfs is a merged directory of another overlayfs, ovl_open_realfile() will fail to open the real file and point to a lower dentry copy, without the proper parent path. After this, d_path() will then display the path incorrectly as if the file is placed in the root directory. This bug can be triggered with the following setup: mkdir -p ovl-A/lower ovl-A/upper ovl-A/merge ovl-A/work mkdir -p ovl-B/upper ovl-B/merge ovl-B/work cp /bin/cat ovl-A/lower/ mount -t overlay overlay -o \ lowerdir=ovl-A/lower,upperdir=ovl-A/upper,workdir=ovl-A/work \ ovl-A/merge mount -t overlay overlay -o \ lowerdir=ovl-A/merge,upperdir=ovl-B/upper,workdir=ovl-B/work \ ovl-B/merge ovl-A/merge/cat /proc/self/maps | grep --color cat ovl-B/merge/cat /proc/self/maps | grep --color cat The first cat will correctly show `/ovl-A/merge/cat`, while the second one shows just `/cat`. To fix that, uses file_user_path() inside of backing_file_open() to get the correct file path for the dentry. Co-developed-by: John Schoenick Signed-off-by: John Schoenick Signed-off-by: André Almeida Fixes: def3ae83da02 ("fs: store real path instead of fake path in backing file f_path") Cc: # v6.7 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: don't allow datadir only

2025-04-25T08:47:53+00:00

commit eb3a04a8516ee9b5174379306f94279fc90424c4 upstream. In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data layer, but there's no current use case for this. Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed, only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling this case, resulting in an Oops. Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir. Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano Fixes: 24e16e385f22 ("ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one") Cc: # v6.7 Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ovl: remove unused forward declaration

2025-04-25T08:47:39+00:00

[ Upstream commit a6eb9a4a69cc360b930dad9dc8513f8fd9b3577f ] The ovl_get_verity_xattr() function was never added, only its declaration. Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Scrivano Fixes: 184996e92e86 ("ovl: Validate verity xattr when resolving lowerdata") Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

ovl: fix UAF in ovl_dentry_update_reval by moving dput() in ovl_link_up

2025-03-07T17:25:26+00:00

[ Upstream commit c84e125fff2615b4d9c259e762596134eddd2f27 ] The issue was caused by dput(upper) being called before ovl_dentry_update_reval(), while upper->d_flags was still accessed in ovl_dentry_remote(). Move dput(upper) after its last use to prevent use-after-free. BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x116/0x1f0 lib/dump_stack.c:114 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:377 [inline] print_report+0xc3/0x620 mm/kasan/report.c:488 kasan_report+0xd9/0x110 mm/kasan/report.c:601 ovl_dentry_remote fs/overlayfs/util.c:162 [inline] ovl_dentry_update_reval+0xd2/0xf0 fs/overlayfs/util.c:167 ovl_link_up fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:610 [inline] ovl_copy_up_one+0x2105/0x3490 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1170 ovl_copy_up_flags+0x18d/0x200 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c:1223 ovl_rename+0x39e/0x18c0 fs/overlayfs/dir.c:1136 vfs_rename+0xf84/0x20a0 fs/namei.c:4893 ... Fixes: b07d5cc93e1b ("ovl: update of dentry revalidate flags after copy up") Reported-by: syzbot+316db8a1191938280eb6@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=316db8a1191938280eb6 Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kovalev Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250214215148.761147-1-kovalev@altlinux.org Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin