linux-stable/fs/overlayfs
Vivek Goyal e7c0b5991d ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported
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
2016-07-03 09:39:31 +02:00
..
Kconfig ovl: rename filesystem type to "overlay" 2014-11-20 16:39:59 +01:00
Makefile ovl: rename filesystem type to "overlay" 2014-11-20 16:39:59 +01:00
copy_up.c ovl: override creds with the ones from the superblock mounter 2016-05-27 08:55:26 +02:00
dir.c ovl: fix uid/gid when creating over whiteout 2016-06-15 14:18:59 +02:00
inode.c ovl: get_write_access() in truncate 2016-06-29 16:03:55 +02:00
overlayfs.h Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-05-27 17:14:05 -07:00
readdir.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2016-05-27 17:14:05 -07:00
super.c ovl: warn instead of error if d_type is not supported 2016-07-03 09:39:31 +02:00