From: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> ovl_copy_up() by default will only do metadata only copy up (if enabled). That means when ovl_real_ioctl() calls ovl_real_file(), it will still get the lower file (as ovl_real_file() opens data file and not metacopy). And that means "chattr +i" will end up modifying lower inode.
There seem to be two ways to solve this. A. Open metacopy file in ovl_real_ioctl() and do operations on that B. Force full copy up when FS_IOC_SETFLAGS is called. I am resorting to option B for now as it feels little safer option. If there are performance issues due to this, we can revisit it. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> --- fs/overlayfs/file.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c index 953295774471..31f32fc1004b 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c @@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static long ovl_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg) if (ret) return ret; - ret = ovl_copy_up(file_dentry(file)); + ret = ovl_copy_up_with_data(file_dentry(file)); if (!ret) { ret = ovl_real_ioctl(file, cmd, arg); -- 2.14.3
