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    ovl: force r/o mount when index dir creation fails · 972d0093
    Amir Goldstein authored
    When work dir creation fails, a warning is emitted and overlay is
    mounted r/o. Trying to remount r/w will fail with no work dir.
    
    When index dir creation fails, the same warning is emitted and overlay
    is mounted r/o, but trying to remount r/w will succeed. This may cause
    unintentional corruption of filesystem consistency.
    
    Adjust the behavior of index dir creation failure to that of work dir
    creation failure and do not allow to remount r/w. User needs to state
    an explicitly intention to work without an index by mounting with
    option 'index=off' to allow r/w mount with no index dir.
    
    When mounting with option 'index=on' and no 'upperdir', index is
    implicitly disabled, so do not warn about no file handle support.
    
    The issue was introduced with inodes index feature in v4.13, but this
    patch will not apply cleanly before ovl_fill_super() re-factoring in
    v4.15.
    
    Fixes: 02bcd157 ("ovl: introduce the inodes index dir feature")
    Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #v4.13
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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