ovl: disallow overlayfs as upperdir

commit 76bc8e2843b66f8205026365966b49ec6da39ae7 upstream.

This does not work and does not make sense.  So instead of fixing it
(probably not hard) just disallow.

Reported-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index a1acc6004a91ddf3a175bdc3d94e57f5c4384484..70a7bbe199d09bac0ec802eb80e66b711a01a634 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -376,7 +376,8 @@ static struct ovl_entry *ovl_alloc_entry(unsigned int numlower)
 static bool ovl_dentry_remote(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
        return dentry->d_flags &
-               (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE);
+               (DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE | DCACHE_OP_WEAK_REVALIDATE |
+                DCACHE_OP_REAL);
 }
 
 static bool ovl_dentry_weird(struct dentry *dentry)