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commit 764baba80168ad3adafb521d2ab483ccbc49e344 upstream.
Commit 31747eda41ef ("ovl: hash directory inodes for fsnotify")
fixed an issue of inotify watch on directory that stops getting
events after dropping dentry caches.
A similar issue exists for non-dir non-upper files, for example:
$ mkdir -p lower upper work merged
$ touch lower/foo
$ mount -t overlay -o
lowerdir=lower,workdir=work,upperdir=upper none merged
$ inotifywait merged/foo &
$ echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
$ cat merged/foo
inotifywait doesn't get the OPEN event, because ovl_lookup() called
from 'cat' allocates a new overlay inode and does not reuse the
watched inode.
Fix this by hashing non-dir overlay inodes by lower real inode in
the following cases that were not hashed before this change:
- A non-upper overlay mount
- A lower non-hardlink when index=off
A helper ovl_hash_bylower() was added to put all the logic and
documentation about which real inode an overlay inode is hashed by
into one place.
The issue dates back to initial version of overlayfs, but this
patch depends on ovl_inode code that was introduced in kernel v4.13.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.13
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com> #4.14
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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