fs: add file_dentry()

This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9234c ("overlayfs:
Make f_path always point to the overlay and f_inode to the underlay").

Regular files opened on overlayfs will result in the file being opened on
the underlying filesystem, while f_path points to the overlayfs
mount/dentry.

This confuses filesystems which get the dentry from struct file and assume
it's theirs.

Add a new helper, file_dentry() [*], to get the filesystem's own dentry
from the file.  This checks file->f_path.dentry->d_flags against
DCACHE_OP_REAL, and returns file->f_path.dentry if DCACHE_OP_REAL is not
set (this is the common, non-overlayfs case).

In the uncommon case it will call into overlayfs's ->d_real() to get the
underlying dentry, matching file_inode(file).

The reason we need to check against the inode is that if the file is copied
up while being open, d_real() would return the upper dentry, while the open
file comes from the lower dentry.

[*] If possible, it's better simply to use file_inode() instead.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Tested-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@primarydata.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.2
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 35d99266ca9a..b2ed2311b021 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1241,6 +1241,16 @@ static inline struct inode *file_inode(const struct file *f)
 	return f->f_inode;
 }
 
+static inline struct dentry *file_dentry(const struct file *file)
+{
+	struct dentry *dentry = file->f_path.dentry;
+
+	if (unlikely(dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_OP_REAL))
+		return dentry->d_op->d_real(dentry, file_inode(file));
+	else
+		return dentry;
+}
+
 static inline int locks_lock_file_wait(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl)
 {
 	return locks_lock_inode_wait(file_inode(filp), fl);