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ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported

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overlay needs underlying fs to support d_type. Recently I put in a
patch in to detect this condition and started failing mount if
underlying fs did not support d_type.

But this breaks existing configurations over kernel upgrade. Those who
are running docker (partially broken configuration) with xfs not
supporting d_type, are surprised that after kernel upgrade docker does
not run anymore.

https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/22937#issuecomment-229881315

So instead of erroring out, detect broken configuration and warn
about it. This should allow existing docker setups to continue
working after kernel upgrade.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: 45aebeaf4f ("ovl: Ensure upper filesystem supports d_type")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> 4.6
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Vivek Goyal 2016-07-01 10:02:44 -04:00 committed by Miklos Szeredi
parent 03bea60409
commit e7c0b5991d
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fs/overlayfs/super.c
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@ -1082,11 +1082,13 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
if (err < 0)
goto out_put_workdir;
if (!err) {
pr_err("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
err = -EINVAL;
goto out_put_workdir;
}
/*
* We allowed this configuration and don't want to
* break users over kernel upgrade. So warn instead
* of erroring out.
*/
if (!err)
pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
}
}