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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/super.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index ce02f46029da..9a7693d5f8ff 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -1082,11 +1082,13 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) if (err < 0) goto out_put_workdir; - if (!err) { - pr_err("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n"); - err = -EINVAL; - goto out_put_workdir; - } + /* + * We allowed this configuration and don't want to + * break users over kernel upgrade. So warn instead + * of erroring out. + */ + if (!err) + pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n"); } } |