mainlining shenanigans
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Until this change, we decoded upper file handles by instantiating an overlay dentry from the real upper dentry. This is sufficient to handle pure upper files, but insufficient to handle merge/impure dirs. To that end, if decoded real upper dir is connected and hashed, we lookup an overlay dentry with the same path as the real upper dir. If decoded real upper is non-dir, we instantiate a disconnected overlay dentry as before this change. Because ovl_fh_to_dentry() returns a connected overlay dir dentry, exportfs never needs to call get_parent() and get_name() to reconnect an upper overlay dir. Because connectable non-dir file handles are not supported, exportfs will not be able to use fh_to_parent() and get_name() methods to reconnect a disconnected non-dir to its parent. Therefore, the methods get_parent() and get_name() are implemented just to print out a sanity warning and the method fh_to_parent() is implemented to warn the user that using the 'subtree_check' exportfs option is not supported. An alternative approach could have been to implement instantiating of an overlay directory inode from origin/index and implement get_parent() and get_name() by calling into underlying fs operations and them instantiating the overlay parent dir. The reasons for not choosing the get_parent() approach were: - Obtaining a disconnected overlay dir dentry would requires a delicate re-factoring of ovl_lookup() to get a dentry with overlay parent info. It was preferred to avoid doing that re-factoring unless it was proven worthy. - Going down the path of disconnected dir would mean that the (non trivial) code path of d_splice_alias() could be traveled and that meant writing more tests and introduces race cases that are very hard to hit on purpose. Taking the path of connecting overlay dentry by forward lookup is therefore the safe and boring way to avoid surprises. The culprits of the chosen "connected overlay dentry" approach: - We need to take special care to rename of ancestors while connecting the overlay dentry by real dentry path. These subtleties are usually handled by generic exportfs and VFS code. - In a hypothetical workload, we could end up in a loop trying to connect, interrupted by rename and restarting connect forever. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> |
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