CC'ing VFS folks
Am 01.05.2016 um 11:02 schrieb Toshikuni Fukaya:
> If a file on overlayfs using hostfs as a lowerdir is opened, it would
> be failed by ENOENT because hostfs resolves a host path by a host root
> path stored on the hostfs superblock referred by file->f_path.dentry,
> but it is replaced with overlayfs's one starting from the
> commit 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs: Make f_path always point to the
> overlay and f_inode to the underlay").
>
> We replace using file->f_path.dentry directly with calling
> "file_dentry" from a commit d101a125954e ("fs: add file_dentry()") to
> fix the issue.
Is there a reason why not all instances of file->f_path.dentry have
been replaced by file_dentry()?
I smell more fallout...
Thanks,
//richard
> Signed-off-by: Toshikuni Fukaya <tosh...@gmail.com>
> ---
> fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> index 7016653..26a9f43 100644
> --- a/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> +++ b/fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c
> @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ static int hostfs_readdir(struct file *file, struct
> dir_context *ctx)
> int error, len;
> unsigned int type;
>
> - name = dentry_name(file->f_path.dentry);
> + name = dentry_name(file_dentry(file));
> if (name == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
> dir = open_dir(name, &error);
> @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ retry:
> if (mode & FMODE_WRITE)
> r = w = 1;
>
> - name = dentry_name(file->f_path.dentry);
> + name = dentry_name(file_dentry(file));
> if (name == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
>
>
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