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Commit 9011c279 authored by Amir Goldstein's avatar Amir Goldstein Committed by Miklos Szeredi
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ovl: skip stale entries in merge dir cache iteration



On the first getdents call, ovl_iterate() populates the readdir cache
with a list of entries, but for upper entries with origin lower inode,
p->ino remains zero.

Following getdents calls traverse the readdir cache list and call
ovl_cache_update_ino() for entries with zero p->ino to lookup the entry
in the overlay and return d_ino that is consistent with st_ino.

If the upper file was unlinked between the first getdents call and the
getdents call that lists the file entry, ovl_cache_update_ino() will not
find the entry and fall back to setting d_ino to the upper real st_ino,
which is inconsistent with how this object was presented to users.

Instead of listing a stale entry with inconsistent d_ino, simply skip
the stale entry, which is better for users.

xfstest overlay/077 is failing without this patch.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/fstests/CAOQ4uxgR_cLnC_vdU5=seP3fwqVkuZM_-WfD6maFTMbMYq=a9w@mail.gmail.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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