Commit e91cb9a3 authored by Kevin Locke's avatar Kevin Locke Committed by Yang Yingliang
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ovl: warn about orphan metacopy

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from mainline-v5.11-rc1
commit 0a8d0b64
category: bugfix
bugzilla: NA
CVE: NA

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When the lower file of a metacopy is inaccessible, -EIO is returned.  For
users not familiar with overlayfs internals, such as myself, the meaning of
this error may not be apparent or easy to determine, since the (metacopy)
file is present and open/stat succeed when accessed outside of the overlay.

Add a rate-limited warning for orphan metacopy to give users a hint when
investigating such errors.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxi23Zsmfb4rCed1n=On0NNA5KZD74jjjeyz+et32sk-gg@mail.gmail.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarKevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Liang <zhengliang6@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarZhang Yi <yi.zhang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
parent 0fe67912
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