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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2018-01-03 19:54:42 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-02-16 22:07:00 +0300
commit06b4cf20d166fcd17e5d4a9da24861a61bf62689 (patch)
treea1a57285960effcdbd37ca8e4a58b0a781b8670b /fs
parent65989bff55e8f2dae2b1ab4b13edbaabe9868da7 (diff)
downloadlinux-06b4cf20d166fcd17e5d4a9da24861a61bf62689.tar.xz
ovl: take mnt_want_write() for removing impure xattr
commit a5a927a7c82e28ea76599dee4019c41e372c911f upstream. The optimization in ovl_cache_get_impure() that tries to remove an unneeded "impure" xattr needs to take mnt_want_write() on upper fs. Fixes: 4edb83bb1041 ("ovl: constant d_ino for non-merge dirs") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/readdir.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
index a7e45e6cd732..e258c234f357 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
@@ -593,8 +593,15 @@ static struct ovl_dir_cache *ovl_cache_get_impure(struct path *path)
return ERR_PTR(res);
}
if (list_empty(&cache->entries)) {
- /* Good oportunity to get rid of an unnecessary "impure" flag */
- ovl_do_removexattr(ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), OVL_XATTR_IMPURE);
+ /*
+ * A good opportunity to get rid of an unneeded "impure" flag.
+ * Removing the "impure" xattr is best effort.
+ */
+ if (!ovl_want_write(dentry)) {
+ ovl_do_removexattr(ovl_dentry_upper(dentry),
+ OVL_XATTR_IMPURE);
+ ovl_drop_write(dentry);
+ }
ovl_clear_flag(OVL_IMPURE, d_inode(dentry));
kfree(cache);
return NULL;