ovl: Warn on copy up if a process has a R/O fd open to the lower file
Print a warning when overlayfs copies up a file if the process that
triggered the copy up has a R/O fd open to the lower file being copied up.
This can help catch applications that do things like the following:
fd1 = open("foo", O_RDONLY);
fd2 = open("foo", O_RDWR);
where they expect fd1 and fd2 to refer to the same file - which will no
longer be the case post-copy up.
With this patch, the following commands:
bash 5</mnt/a/foo128
6<>/mnt/a/foo128
assuming /mnt/a/foo128 to be an un-copied up file on an overlay will
produce the following warning in the kernel log:
overlayfs: Copying up foo129, but open R/O on fd 5 which will cease
to be coherent [pid=3818 bash]
This is enabled by setting:
/sys/module/overlay/parameters/check_copy_up
to 1.
The warnings are ratelimited and are also limited to one warning per file -
assuming the copy up completes in each case.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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