1 files changed, 43 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 0e84593af84e..d4caeee051ee 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ static void ovl_entry_stack_free(struct ovl_entry *oe)
 		dput(oe->lowerstack[i].dentry);
 }
 
+static bool ovl_metacopy_def = IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_OVERLAY_FS_METACOPY);
+module_param_named(metacopy, ovl_metacopy_def, bool, 0644);
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(ovl_metacopy_def,
+		 "Default to on or off for the metadata only copy up feature");
+
 static void ovl_dentry_release(struct dentry *dentry)
 {
 	struct ovl_entry *oe = dentry->d_fsdata;
@@ -347,6 +352,9 @@ static int ovl_show_options(struct seq_file *m, struct dentry *dentry)
 						"on" : "off");
 	if (ofs->config.xino != ovl_xino_def())
 		seq_printf(m, ",xino=%s", ovl_xino_str[ofs->config.xino]);
+	if (ofs->config.metacopy != ovl_metacopy_def)
+		seq_printf(m, ",metacopy=%s",
+			   ofs->config.metacopy ? "on" : "off");
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -384,6 +392,8 @@ enum {
 	OPT_XINO_ON,
 	OPT_XINO_OFF,
 	OPT_XINO_AUTO,
+	OPT_METACOPY_ON,
+	OPT_METACOPY_OFF,
 	OPT_ERR,
 };
 
@@ -400,6 +410,8 @@ static const match_table_t ovl_tokens = {
 	{OPT_XINO_ON,			"xino=on"},
 	{OPT_XINO_OFF,			"xino=off"},
 	{OPT_XINO_AUTO,			"xino=auto"},
+	{OPT_METACOPY_ON,		"metacopy=on"},
+	{OPT_METACOPY_OFF,		"metacopy=off"},
 	{OPT_ERR,			NULL}
 };
 
@@ -452,6 +464,7 @@ static int ovl_parse_redirect_mode(struct ovl_config *config, const char *mode)
 static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, struct ovl_config *config)
 {
 	char *p;
+	int err;
 
 	config->redirect_mode = kstrdup(ovl_redirect_mode_def(), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!config->redirect_mode)
@@ -526,6 +539,14 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, struct ovl_config *config)
 			config->xino = OVL_XINO_AUTO;
 			break;
 
+		case OPT_METACOPY_ON:
+			config->metacopy = true;
+			break;
+
+		case OPT_METACOPY_OFF:
+			config->metacopy = false;
+			break;
+
 		default:
 			pr_err("overlayfs: unrecognized mount option \"%s\" or missing value\n", p);
 			return -EINVAL;
@@ -540,7 +561,20 @@ static int ovl_parse_opt(char *opt, struct ovl_config *config)
 		config->workdir = NULL;
 	}
 
-	return ovl_parse_redirect_mode(config, config->redirect_mode);
+	err = ovl_parse_redirect_mode(config, config->redirect_mode);
+	if (err)
+		return err;
+
+	/* metacopy feature with upper requires redirect_dir=on */
+	if (config->upperdir && config->metacopy && !config->redirect_dir) {
+		pr_warn("overlayfs: metadata only copy up requires \"redirect_dir=on\", falling back to metacopy=off.\n");
+		config->metacopy = false;
+	} else if (config->metacopy && !config->redirect_follow) {
+		pr_warn("overlayfs: metadata only copy up requires \"redirect_dir=follow\" on non-upper mount, falling back to metacopy=off.\n");
+		config->metacopy = false;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
 }
 
 #define OVL_WORKDIR_NAME "work"
@@ -1013,7 +1047,8 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct path *workpath)
 	if (err) {
 		ofs->noxattr = true;
 		ofs->config.index = false;
-		pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs does not support xattr, falling back to index=off.\n");
+		ofs->config.metacopy = false;
+		pr_warn("overlayfs: upper fs does not support xattr, falling back to index=off and metacopy=off.\n");
 		err = 0;
 	} else {
 		vfs_removexattr(ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE);
@@ -1035,7 +1070,6 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct path *workpath)
 		pr_warn("overlayfs: NFS export requires \"index=on\", falling back to nfs_export=off.\n");
 		ofs->config.nfs_export = false;
 	}
-
 out:
 	mnt_drop_write(mnt);
 	return err;
@@ -1346,6 +1380,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 	ofs->config.index = ovl_index_def;
 	ofs->config.nfs_export = ovl_nfs_export_def;
 	ofs->config.xino = ovl_xino_def();
+	ofs->config.metacopy = ovl_metacopy_def;
 	err = ovl_parse_opt((char *) data, &ofs->config);
 	if (err)
 		goto out_err;
@@ -1416,6 +1451,11 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		}
 	}
 
+	if (ofs->config.metacopy && ofs->config.nfs_export) {
+		pr_warn("overlayfs: NFS export is not supported with metadata only copy up, falling back to nfs_export=off.\n");
+		ofs->config.nfs_export = false;
+	}
+
 	if (ofs->config.nfs_export)
 		sb->s_export_op = &ovl_export_operations;