ovl: fix regression caused by exclusive upper/work dir protection
Enforcing exclusive ownership on upper/work dirs caused a docker
regression: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34672.
Euan spotted the regression and pointed to the offending commit.
Vivek has brought the regression to my attention and provided this
reproducer:
Terminal 1:
mount -t overlay -o workdir=work,lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper none
merged/
Terminal 2:
unshare -m
Terminal 1:
umount merged
mount -t overlay -o workdir=work,lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper none
merged/
mount: /root/overlay-testing/merged: none already mounted or mount point
busy
To fix the regression, I replaced the error with an alarming warning.
With index feature enabled, mount does fail, but logs a suggestion to
override exclusive dir protection by disabling index.
Note that index=off mount does take the inuse locks, so a concurrent
index=off will issue the warning and a concurrent index=on mount will fail.
Documentation was updated to reflect this change.
Fixes: 2cac0c00a6cd ("ovl: get exclusive ownership on upper/work dirs")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.13
Reported-by: Euan Kemp <euank@euank.com>
Reported-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
index 36f528a..8caa607 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
@@ -210,8 +210,11 @@
beneath or above the path of another overlay lower layer path.
Using an upper layer path and/or a workdir path that are already used by
-another overlay mount is not allowed and will fail with EBUSY. Using
+another overlay mount is not allowed and may fail with EBUSY. Using
partially overlapping paths is not allowed but will not fail with EBUSY.
+If files are accessed from two overlayfs mounts which share or overlap the
+upper layer and/or workdir path the behavior of the overlay is undefined,
+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