fs: add file_dentry()
commit d101a125 upstream. This series fixes bugs in nfs and ext4 due to 4bacc9c9 ("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: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> [ kamal: backport to 4.2-stable: context ] Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
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