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[RFC,v4,5/9] ovl: mark overlayfs' inode dirty on shared mmap

Message ID 20201113065555.147276-6-cgxu519@mykernel.net (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series implement containerized syncfs for overlayfs | expand

Commit Message

Chengguang Xu Nov. 13, 2020, 6:55 a.m. UTC
Overlayfs cannot be notified when mmapped area gets dirty,
so we need to proactively mark inode dirty in ->mmap operation.

Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net>
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 fs/overlayfs/file.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
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diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
index efccb7c1f9bc..3f9de5343513 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -486,6 +486,9 @@  static int ovl_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 		/* Drop reference count from new vm_file value */
 		fput(realfile);
 	} else {
+		if (ovl_inode_upper(file_inode(file)) &&
+		    vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED)
+			ovl_mark_inode_dirty(file_inode(file));
 		/* Drop reference count from previous vm_file value */
 		fput(file);
 	}