ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type
In some instances xfs has been created with ftype=0 and there if a file
on lower fs is removed, overlay leaves a whiteout in upper fs but that
whiteout does not get filtered out and is visible to overlayfs users.
And reason it does not get filtered out because upper filesystem does
not report file type of whiteout as DT_CHR during iterate_dir().
So it seems to be a requirement that upper filesystem support d_type for
overlayfs to work properly. Do this check during mount and fail if d_type
is not supported.
Suggested-by: Dave Chinner <dchinner@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 99b4168..6a7090f 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@
int ovl_check_empty_dir(struct dentry *dentry, struct list_head *list);
void ovl_cleanup_whiteouts(struct dentry *upper, struct list_head *list);
void ovl_cache_free(struct list_head *list);
+int ovl_check_d_type_supported(struct path *realpath);
/* inode.c */
int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr);