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Amir Goldstein 0be0bfd2de ovl: fix regression caused by overlapping layers detection
Once upon a time, commit 2cac0c00a6 ("ovl: get exclusive ownership on
upper/work dirs") in v4.13 added some sanity checks on overlayfs layers.
This change caused a docker regression. The root cause was mount leaks
by docker, which as far as I know, still exist.

To mitigate the regression, commit 85fdee1eef ("ovl: fix regression
caused by exclusive upper/work dir protection") in v4.14 turned the
mount errors into warnings for the default index=off configuration.

Recently, commit 146d62e5a5 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers") in
v5.2, re-introduced exclusive upper/work dir checks regardless of
index=off configuration.

This changes the status quo and mount leak related bug reports have
started to re-surface. Restore the status quo to fix the regressions.
To clarify, index=off does NOT relax overlapping layers check for this
ovelayfs mount. index=off only relaxes exclusive upper/work dir checks
with another overlayfs mount.

To cover the part of overlapping layers detection that used the
exclusive upper/work dir checks to detect overlap with self upper/work
dir, add a trap also on the work base dir.

Link: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/34672
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/20171006121405.GA32700@veci.piliscsaba.szeredi.hu/
Link: https://github.com/containers/libpod/issues/3540
Fixes: 146d62e5a5 ("ovl: detect overlapping layers")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2019-07-16 13:23:40 +02:00
Documentation ovl: fix regression caused by overlapping layers detection 2019-07-16 13:23:40 +02:00
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drivers dmaengine fixes for v5.2 2019-07-06 10:06:37 -07:00
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kernel ptrace: Fix ->ptracer_cred handling for PTRACE_TRACEME 2019-07-05 02:00:41 +09:00
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virt SPDX update for 5.2-rc6 2019-06-21 09:58:42 -07:00
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README

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.