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Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein:
 "This is a very small update with no bug fixes and no new features.

  The larger update of overlayfs for this cycle, the re-factoring of
  overlayfs code into generic backing_file helpers, was already merged
  via Christian.

  Summary:

   - Simplify/clarify some code

     No bug fixes here, just some changes following questions from Al
     about overlayfs code that could be a little more simple to follow.

   - Overlayfs documentation style fixes

     Mainly fixes for ReST formatting suggested by documentation
     developers"

* tag 'ovl-update-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
  overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting
  overlayfs.rst: use consistent feature names
  ovl: initialize ovl_copy_up_ctx.destname inside ovl_do_copy_up()
  ovl: remove redundant ofs->indexdir member
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104 changes: 54 additions & 50 deletions Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst
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Expand Up @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ objects in the original filesystem.
On 64bit systems, even if all overlay layers are not on the same
underlying filesystem, the same compliant behavior could be achieved
with the "xino" feature. The "xino" feature composes a unique object
identifier from the real object st_ino and an underlying fsid index.
identifier from the real object st_ino and an underlying fsid number.
The "xino" feature uses the high inode number bits for fsid, because the
underlying filesystems rarely use the high inode number bits. In case
the underlying inode number does overflow into the high xino bits, overlay
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Where both upper and lower objects are directories, a merged directory
is formed.

At mount time, the two directories given as mount options "lowerdir" and
"upperdir" are combined into a merged directory:
"upperdir" are combined into a merged directory::

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper,\
workdir=/work /merged
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -172,12 +172,12 @@ directory is being read. This is unlikely to be noticed by many
programs.

seek offsets are assigned sequentially when the directories are read.
Thus if
Thus if:

- read part of a directory
- remember an offset, and close the directory
- re-open the directory some time later
- seek to the remembered offset
- read part of a directory
- remember an offset, and close the directory
- re-open the directory some time later
- seek to the remembered offset

there may be little correlation between the old and new locations in
the list of filenames, particularly if anything has changed in the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -290,9 +290,9 @@ Permission checking in the overlay filesystem follows these principles:
2) task creating the overlay mount MUST NOT gain additional privileges

3) non-mounting task MAY gain additional privileges through the overlay,
compared to direct access on underlying lower or upper filesystems
compared to direct access on underlying lower or upper filesystems

This is achieved by performing two permission checks on each access
This is achieved by performing two permission checks on each access:

a) check if current task is allowed access based on local DAC (owner,
group, mode and posix acl), as well as MAC checks
Expand All @@ -311,11 +311,11 @@ to create setups where the consistency rule (1) does not hold; normally,
however, the mounting task will have sufficient privileges to perform all
operations.

Another way to demonstrate this model is drawing parallels between
Another way to demonstrate this model is drawing parallels between::

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower,upperdir=/upper,... /merged

and
and::

cp -a /lower /upper
mount --bind /upper /merged
Expand All @@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ Multiple lower layers
---------------------

Multiple lower layers can now be given using the colon (":") as a
separator character between the directory names. For example:
separator character between the directory names. For example::

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/lower1:/lower2:/lower3 /merged

Expand All @@ -340,13 +340,13 @@ rightmost one and going left. In the above example lower1 will be the
top, lower2 the middle and lower3 the bottom layer.

Note: directory names containing colons can be provided as lower layer by
escaping the colons with a single backslash. For example:
escaping the colons with a single backslash. For example::

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/a\:lower\:\:dir /merged

Since kernel version v6.8, directory names containing colons can also
be configured as lower layer using the "lowerdir+" mount options and the
fsconfig syscall from new mount api. For example:
fsconfig syscall from new mount api. For example::

fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir+", "/a:lower::dir", 0);

Expand All @@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ as an octal characters (\072) when displayed in /proc/self/mountinfo.
Metadata only copy up
---------------------

When metadata only copy up feature is enabled, overlayfs will only copy
When the "metacopy" feature is enabled, overlayfs will only copy
up metadata (as opposed to whole file), when a metadata specific operation
like chown/chmod is performed. Full file will be copied up later when
file is opened for WRITE operation.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ A normal lower layer is not allowed to be below a data-only layer, so single
colon separators are not allowed to the right of double colon ("::") separators.


For example:
For example::

mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=/l1:/l2:/l3::/do1::/do2 /merged

Expand All @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ to the absolute path of the "lower data" file in the "data-only" lower layer.

Since kernel version v6.8, "data-only" lower layers can also be added using
the "datadir+" mount options and the fsconfig syscall from new mount api.
For example:
For example::

fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir+", "/l1", 0);
fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir+", "/l2", 0);
Expand All @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ For example:


fs-verity support
----------------------
-----------------

During metadata copy up of a lower file, if the source file has
fs-verity enabled and overlay verity support is enabled, then the
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -492,27 +492,27 @@ though it will not result in a crash or deadlock.

Mounting an overlay using an upper layer path, where the upper layer path
was previously used by another mounted overlay in combination with a
different lower layer path, is allowed, unless the "inodes index" feature
or "metadata only copy up" feature is enabled.
different lower layer path, is allowed, unless the "index" or "metacopy"
features are enabled.

With the "inodes index" feature, on the first time mount, an NFS file
With the "index" feature, on the first time mount, an NFS file
handle of the lower layer root directory, along with the UUID of the lower
filesystem, are encoded and stored in the "trusted.overlay.origin" extended
attribute on the upper layer root directory. On subsequent mount attempts,
the lower root directory file handle and lower filesystem UUID are compared
to the stored origin in upper root directory. On failure to verify the
lower root origin, mount will fail with ESTALE. An overlayfs mount with
"inodes index" enabled will fail with EOPNOTSUPP if the lower filesystem
"index" enabled will fail with EOPNOTSUPP if the lower filesystem
does not support NFS export, lower filesystem does not have a valid UUID or
if the upper filesystem does not support extended attributes.

For "metadata only copy up" feature there is no verification mechanism at
For the "metacopy" feature, there is no verification mechanism at
mount time. So if same upper is mounted with different set of lower, mount
probably will succeed but expect the unexpected later on. So don't do it.

It is quite a common practice to copy overlay layers to a different
directory tree on the same or different underlying filesystem, and even
to a different machine. With the "inodes index" feature, trying to mount
to a different machine. With the "index" feature, trying to mount
the copied layers will fail the verification of the lower root file handle.

Nesting overlayfs mounts
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -547,28 +547,30 @@ filesystem.

This is the list of cases that overlayfs doesn't currently handle:

a) POSIX mandates updating st_atime for reads. This is currently not
done in the case when the file resides on a lower layer.
a) POSIX mandates updating st_atime for reads. This is currently not
done in the case when the file resides on a lower layer.

b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then
memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not
reflected in the memory mapping.
b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then
memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not
reflected in the memory mapping.

c) If a file residing on a lower layer is being executed, then opening that
file for write or truncating the file will not be denied with ETXTBSY.
c) If a file residing on a lower layer is being executed, then opening that
file for write or truncating the file will not be denied with ETXTBSY.

The following options allow overlayfs to act more like a standards
compliant filesystem:

1) "redirect_dir"
redirect_dir
````````````

Enabled with the mount option or module option: "redirect_dir=on" or with
the kernel config option CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_REDIRECT_DIR=y.

If this feature is disabled, then rename(2) on a lower or merged directory
will fail with EXDEV ("Invalid cross-device link").

2) "inode index"
index
`````

Enabled with the mount option or module option "index=on" or with the
kernel config option CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_INDEX=y.
Expand All @@ -577,7 +579,8 @@ If this feature is disabled and a file with multiple hard links is copied
up, then this will "break" the link. Changes will not be propagated to
other names referring to the same inode.

3) "xino"
xino
````

Enabled with the mount option "xino=auto" or "xino=on", with the module
option "xino_auto=on" or with the kernel config option
Expand All @@ -604,7 +607,7 @@ a crash or deadlock.

Offline changes, when the overlay is not mounted, are allowed to the
upper tree. Offline changes to the lower tree are only allowed if the
"metadata only copy up", "inode index", "xino" and "redirect_dir" features
"metacopy", "index", "xino" and "redirect_dir" features
have not been used. If the lower tree is modified and any of these
features has been used, the behavior of the overlay is undefined,
though it will not result in a crash or deadlock.
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -644,12 +647,13 @@ directory inode.
When encoding a file handle from an overlay filesystem object, the
following rules apply:

1. For a non-upper object, encode a lower file handle from lower inode
2. For an indexed object, encode a lower file handle from copy_up origin
3. For a pure-upper object and for an existing non-indexed upper object,
encode an upper file handle from upper inode
1. For a non-upper object, encode a lower file handle from lower inode
2. For an indexed object, encode a lower file handle from copy_up origin
3. For a pure-upper object and for an existing non-indexed upper object,
encode an upper file handle from upper inode

The encoded overlay file handle includes:

- Header including path type information (e.g. lower/upper)
- UUID of the underlying filesystem
- Underlying filesystem encoding of underlying inode
Expand All @@ -659,15 +663,15 @@ are stored in extended attribute "trusted.overlay.origin".

When decoding an overlay file handle, the following steps are followed:

1. Find underlying layer by UUID and path type information.
2. Decode the underlying filesystem file handle to underlying dentry.
3. For a lower file handle, lookup the handle in index directory by name.
4. If a whiteout is found in index, return ESTALE. This represents an
overlay object that was deleted after its file handle was encoded.
5. For a non-directory, instantiate a disconnected overlay dentry from the
decoded underlying dentry, the path type and index inode, if found.
6. For a directory, use the connected underlying decoded dentry, path type
and index, to lookup a connected overlay dentry.
1. Find underlying layer by UUID and path type information.
2. Decode the underlying filesystem file handle to underlying dentry.
3. For a lower file handle, lookup the handle in index directory by name.
4. If a whiteout is found in index, return ESTALE. This represents an
overlay object that was deleted after its file handle was encoded.
5. For a non-directory, instantiate a disconnected overlay dentry from the
decoded underlying dentry, the path type and index inode, if found.
6. For a directory, use the connected underlying decoded dentry, path type
and index, to lookup a connected overlay dentry.

Decoding a non-directory file handle may return a disconnected dentry.
copy_up of that disconnected dentry will create an upper index entry with
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -770,9 +774,9 @@ Testsuite
There's a testsuite originally developed by David Howells and currently
maintained by Amir Goldstein at:

https://github.com/amir73il/unionmount-testsuite.git
https://github.com/amir73il/unionmount-testsuite.git

Run as root:
Run as root::

# cd unionmount-testsuite
# ./run --ov --verify
8 changes: 7 additions & 1 deletion fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
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Expand Up @@ -952,6 +952,13 @@ static int ovl_do_copy_up(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c)
err = -EIO;
goto out_free_fh;
} else {
/*
* c->dentry->d_name is stabilzed by ovl_copy_up_start(),
* because if we got here, it means that c->dentry has no upper
* alias and changing ->d_name means going through ovl_rename()
* that will call ovl_copy_up() on source and target dentry.
*/
c->destname = c->dentry->d_name;
/*
* Mark parent "impure" because it may now contain non-pure
* upper
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1132,7 +1139,6 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
if (parent) {
ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath);
ctx.destdir = parentpath.dentry;
ctx.destname = dentry->d_name;

err = vfs_getattr(&parentpath, &ctx.pstat,
STATX_ATIME | STATX_MTIME,
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/overlayfs/export.c
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Expand Up @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lookup_real_inode(struct super_block *sb,
* For decoded lower dir file handle, lookup index by origin to check
* if lower dir was copied up and and/or removed.
*/
if (!this && layer->idx && ofs->indexdir && !WARN_ON(!d_is_dir(real))) {
if (!this && layer->idx && ovl_indexdir(sb) && !WARN_ON(!d_is_dir(real))) {
index = ovl_lookup_index(ofs, NULL, real, false);
if (IS_ERR(index))
return index;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -733,7 +733,7 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_lower_fh_to_d(struct super_block *sb,
}

/* Then lookup indexed upper/whiteout by origin fh */
if (ofs->indexdir) {
if (ovl_indexdir(sb)) {
index = ovl_get_index_fh(ofs, fh);
err = PTR_ERR(index);
if (IS_ERR(index)) {
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions fs/overlayfs/namei.c
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Expand Up @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_get_index_fh(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct ovl_fh *fh)
if (err)
return ERR_PTR(err);

index = lookup_positive_unlocked(name.name, ofs->indexdir, name.len);
index = lookup_positive_unlocked(name.name, ofs->workdir, name.len);
kfree(name.name);
if (IS_ERR(index)) {
if (PTR_ERR(index) == -ENOENT)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup_index(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *upper,
return ERR_PTR(err);

index = lookup_one_positive_unlocked(ovl_upper_mnt_idmap(ofs), name.name,
ofs->indexdir, name.len);
ofs->workdir, name.len);
if (IS_ERR(index)) {
err = PTR_ERR(index);
if (err == -ENOENT) {
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5 changes: 1 addition & 4 deletions fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h
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Expand Up @@ -63,10 +63,8 @@ struct ovl_fs {
struct ovl_sb *fs;
/* workbasedir is the path at workdir= mount option */
struct dentry *workbasedir;
/* workdir is the 'work' directory under workbasedir */
/* workdir is the 'work' or 'index' directory under workbasedir */
struct dentry *workdir;
/* index directory listing overlay inodes by origin file handle */
struct dentry *indexdir;
long namelen;
/* pathnames of lower and upper dirs, for show_options */
struct ovl_config config;
Expand All @@ -81,7 +79,6 @@ struct ovl_fs {
/* Traps in ovl inode cache */
struct inode *workbasedir_trap;
struct inode *workdir_trap;
struct inode *indexdir_trap;
/* -1: disabled, 0: same fs, 1..32: number of unused ino bits */
int xino_mode;
/* For allocation of non-persistent inode numbers */
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2 changes: 0 additions & 2 deletions fs/overlayfs/params.c
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Expand Up @@ -743,10 +743,8 @@ void ovl_free_fs(struct ovl_fs *ofs)
unsigned i;

iput(ofs->workbasedir_trap);
iput(ofs->indexdir_trap);
iput(ofs->workdir_trap);
dput(ofs->whiteout);
dput(ofs->indexdir);
dput(ofs->workdir);
if (ofs->workdir_locked)
ovl_inuse_unlock(ofs->workbasedir);
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion fs/overlayfs/readdir.c
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Expand Up @@ -1169,7 +1169,7 @@ int ovl_workdir_cleanup(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct inode *dir,
int ovl_indexdir_cleanup(struct ovl_fs *ofs)
{
int err;
struct dentry *indexdir = ofs->indexdir;
struct dentry *indexdir = ofs->workdir;
struct dentry *index = NULL;
struct inode *dir = indexdir->d_inode;
struct path path = { .mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs), .dentry = indexdir };
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