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ovl: return anonymous st_dev for lower inodes

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For non-samefs setup, to make sure that st_dev/st_ino pair is unique
across the system, we return a unique anonymous st_dev for stat(2)
of lower layer inode.

A following patch is going to fix constant st_dev/st_ino across copy up
by returning origin st_dev/st_ino for copied up objects.

If the st_dev/st_ino for copied up object would have been the same as
that of the real underlying lower file, running diff on underlying lower
file and overlay copied up file would result in diff reporting that the
2 files are equal when in fact, they may have different content.

[amir: simplify ovl_get_pseudo_dev()
       split from allocate anonymous bdev patch]

Signed-off-by: Chandan Rajendra <chandan@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Chandan Rajendra 2017-07-24 01:57:54 -05:00 committed by Miklos Szeredi
parent 2a9c6d066e
commit ba1e563cdc
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fs/overlayfs/inode.c
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@ -15,6 +15,14 @@
#include <linux/ratelimit.h>
#include "overlayfs.h"
static dev_t ovl_get_pseudo_dev(struct dentry *dentry)
{
struct ovl_entry *oe = dentry->d_fsdata;
return oe->lowerstack[0].layer->pseudo_dev;
}
int ovl_setattr(struct dentry *dentry, struct iattr *attr)
{
int err;
@ -121,6 +129,13 @@ int ovl_getattr(const struct path *path, struct kstat *stat,
*/
stat->dev = dentry->d_sb->s_dev;
stat->ino = dentry->d_inode->i_ino;
} else if (!OVL_TYPE_UPPER(type)) {
/*
* For non-samefs setup, to make sure that st_dev/st_ino pair
* is unique across the system, we use a unique anonymous
* st_dev for lower layer inode.
*/
stat->dev = ovl_get_pseudo_dev(dentry);
}
/*