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Commit ac223427 authored by Miklos Szeredi's avatar Miklos Szeredi Committed by Todd Kjos
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fs: add file_dentry()


commit d101a125 upstream.

This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9 ("overlayfs:
Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").

Regular files opened on overlayfs will result in the file being opened on
the underlying filesystem, while f_path points to the overlayfs
mount/dentry.

This confuses filesystems which get the dentry from struct file and assume
it's theirs.

Add a new helper, file_dentry() [*], to get the filesystem's own dentry
from the file.  This checks file->f_path.dentry->d_flags against
DCACHE_OP_REAL, and returns file->f_path.dentry if DCACHE_OP_REAL is not
set (this is the common, non-overlayfs case).

In the uncommon case it will call into overlayfs's ->d_real() to get the
underlying dentry, matching file_inode(file).

The reason we need to check against the inode is that if the file is copied
up while being open, d_real() would return the upper dentry, while the open
file comes from the lower dentry.

[*] If possible, it's better simply to use file_inode() instead.

Change-Id: If386b7177af8bd96db281ed30f1f71794b486bb7
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarGoldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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