ovl: fix filattr copy-up failure
This regression can be reproduced with ntfs-3g and overlayfs: mkdir lower upper work overlay dd if=/dev/zero of=ntfs.raw bs=1M count=2 mkntfs -F ntfs.raw mount ntfs.raw lower touch lower/file.txt mount -t overlay -o lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work - overlay mv overlay/file.txt overlay/file2.txt mv fails and (misleadingly) prints mv: cannot move 'overlay/file.txt' to a subdirectory of itself, 'overlay/file2.txt' The reason is that ovl_copy_fileattr() is triggered due to S_NOATIME being set on all inodes (by fuse) regardless of fileattr. ovl_copy_fileattr() tries to retrieve file attributes from lower file, but that fails because filesystem does not support this ioctl (this should fail with ENOTTY, but ntfs-3g return EINVAL instead). This failure is propagated to origial operation (in this case rename) that triggered the copy-up. The fix is to ignore ENOTTY and EINVAL errors from fileattr_get() in copy up. This also requires turning the internal ENOIOCTLCMD into ENOTTY. As a further measure to prevent unnecessary failures, only try the fileattr_get/set on upper if there are any flags to copy up. Side note: a number of filesystems set S_NOATIME (and sometimes other inode flags) irrespective of fileattr flags. This causes unnecessary calls during copy up, which might lead to a performance issue, especially if latency is high. To fix this, the kernel would need to differentiate between the two cases. E.g. introduce SB_NOATIME_UPDATE, a per-sb variant of S_NOATIME. SB_NOATIME doesn't work, because that's interpreted as "filesystem doesn't store an atime attribute" Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> Fixes: 72db8211 ("ovl: copy up sync/noatime fileattr flags") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.15 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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