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Miklos Szeredi 02c0cab8e7 fuse: ioctl: translate ENOSYS
Overlayfs may fail to complete updates when a filesystem lacks
fileattr/xattr syscall support and responds with an ENOSYS error code,
resulting in an unexpected "Function not implemented" error.

This bug may occur with FUSE filesystems, such as davfs2.

Steps to reproduce:

  # install davfs2, e.g., apk add davfs2
  mkdir /test mkdir /test/lower /test/upper /test/work /test/mnt
  yes '' | mount -t davfs -o ro http://some-web-dav-server/path \
    /test/lower
  mount -t overlay -o upperdir=/test/upper,lowerdir=/test/lower \
    -o workdir=/test/work overlay /test/mnt

  # when "some-file" exists in the lowerdir, this fails with "Function
  # not implemented", with dmesg showing "overlayfs: failed to retrieve
  # lower fileattr (/some-file, err=-38)"
  touch /test/mnt/some-file

The underlying cause of this regresion is actually in FUSE, which fails to
translate the ENOSYS error code returned by userspace filesystem (which
means that the ioctl operation is not supported) to ENOTTY.

Reported-by: Christian Kohlschütter <christian@kohlschutter.com>
Fixes: 72db82115d ("ovl: copy up sync/noatime fileattr flags")
Fixes: 59efec7b90 ("fuse: implement ioctl support")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
2022-07-21 16:06:18 +02:00
arch Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
block for-5.19/drivers-2022-06-02 2022-06-03 10:25:56 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.19 2022-05-26 12:09:50 -07:00
crypto This update includes the following changes: 2022-05-27 18:06:49 -07:00
Documentation A single featurelet for delay accounting. Delayed a bit 2022-06-05 16:58:27 -07:00
drivers fix for breakage in #work.fd this window 2022-06-05 17:14:03 -07:00
fs fuse: ioctl: translate ENOSYS 2022-07-21 16:06:18 +02:00
include A single featurelet for delay accounting. Delayed a bit 2022-06-05 16:58:27 -07:00
init This set of changes updates init and user mode helper tasks to be 2022-06-03 16:03:05 -07:00
ipc These changes update the ipc sysctls so that they are fundamentally 2022-06-03 15:54:57 -07:00
kernel A single featurelet for delay accounting. Delayed a bit 2022-06-05 16:58:27 -07:00
lib Bitmap patches for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-04 14:04:27 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
net bluetooth: don't use bitmaps for random flag accesses 2022-06-05 16:28:41 -07:00
samples drm for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 16:18:27 -07:00
scripts A set of objtool fixes: 2022-06-05 09:45:27 -07:00
security Cleanups (and one fix) around struct mount handling. 2022-06-04 19:00:05 -07:00
sound USB / Thunderbolt changes for 5.19-rc1 2022-06-03 11:17:49 -07:00
tools A single featurelet for delay accounting. Delayed a bit 2022-06-05 16:58:27 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt VFIO updates for v5.19-rc1 2022-06-01 13:49:15 -07:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
Makefile Linux 5.19-rc1 2022-06-05 17:18:54 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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.