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Subject: [PATCH 4.19 049/205] ovl: automatically enable redirect_dir on metacopy=on
Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:25:56 +0100
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4.19-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

commit d47748e5ae5af6572e520cc9767bbe70c22ea498 upstream.

Current behavior is to automatically disable metacopy if redirect_dir is
not enabled and proceed with the mount.

If "metacopy=on" mount option was given, then this behavior can confuse the
user: no mount failure, yet metacopy is disabled.

This patch makes metacopy=on imply redirect_dir=on.

The converse is also true: turning off full redirect with redirect_dir=
{off|follow|nofollow} will disable metacopy.

If both metacopy=on and redirect_dir={off|follow|nofollow} is specified,
then mount will fail, since there's no way to correctly resolve the
conflict.

Reported-by: Daniel Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>
Fixes: d5791044d2e5 ("ovl: Provide a mount option metacopy=on/off...")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt |    6 +++++
 fs/overlayfs/super.c                    |   36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

--- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt
@@ -286,6 +286,12 @@ pointed by REDIRECT. This should not be
 "trusted." xattrs will require CAP_SYS_ADMIN. But it should be possible
 for untrusted layers like from a pen drive.
 
+Note: redirect_dir={off|nofollow|follow(*)} conflicts with metacopy=on, and
+results in an error.
+
+(*) redirect_dir=follow only conflicts with metacopy=on if upperdir=... is
+given.
+
 Sharing and copying layers
 --------------------------
 
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -472,6 +472,7 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, stru
 {
 	char *p;
 	int err;
+	bool metacopy_opt = false, redirect_opt = false;
 
 	config->redirect_mode = kstrdup(ovl_redirect_mode_def(), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!config->redirect_mode)
@@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, stru
 			config->redirect_mode = match_strdup(&args[0]);
 			if (!config->redirect_mode)
 				return -ENOMEM;
+			redirect_opt = true;
 			break;
 
 		case OPT_INDEX_ON:
@@ -548,6 +550,7 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, stru
 
 		case OPT_METACOPY_ON:
 			config->metacopy = true;
+			metacopy_opt = true;
 			break;
 
 		case OPT_METACOPY_OFF:
@@ -572,13 +575,32 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, stru
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
-	/* metacopy feature with upper requires redirect_dir=on */
-	if (config->upperdir && config->metacopy && !config->redirect_dir) {
-		pr_warn("overlayfs: metadata only copy up requires \"redirect_dir=on\", falling back to metacopy=off.\n");
-		config->metacopy = false;
-	} else if (config->metacopy && !config->redirect_follow) {
-		pr_warn("overlayfs: metadata only copy up requires \"redirect_dir=follow\" on non-upper mount, falling back to metacopy=off.\n");
-		config->metacopy = false;
+	/*
+	 * This is to make the logic below simpler.  It doesn't make any other
+	 * difference, since config->redirect_dir is only used for upper.
+	 */
+	if (!config->upperdir && config->redirect_follow)
+		config->redirect_dir = true;
+
+	/* Resolve metacopy -> redirect_dir dependency */
+	if (config->metacopy && !config->redirect_dir) {
+		if (metacopy_opt && redirect_opt) {
+			pr_err("overlayfs: conflicting options: metacopy=on,redirect_dir=%s\n",
+			       config->redirect_mode);
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
+		if (redirect_opt) {
+			/*
+			 * There was an explicit redirect_dir=... that resulted
+			 * in this conflict.
+			 */
+			pr_info("overlayfs: disabling metacopy due to redirect_dir=%s\n",
+				config->redirect_mode);
+			config->metacopy = false;
+		} else {
+			/* Automatically enable redirect otherwise. */
+			config->redirect_follow = config->redirect_dir = true;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return 0;