Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs

Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein:

 - Overlayfs aio cleanups and fixes

   Cleanups and minor fixes in preparation for factoring out of
   read/write passthrough code.

 - Overlayfs lock ordering changes

   Hold mnt_writers only throughout copy up instead of a long lived
   elevated refcount.

 - Add support for nesting overlayfs private xattrs

   There are cases where you want to use an overlayfs mount as a
   lowerdir for another overlayfs mount. For example, if the system
   rootfs is on overlayfs due to composefs, or to make it volatile (via
   tmpfs), then you cannot currently store a lowerdir on the rootfs,
   because the inner overlayfs will eat all the whiteouts and overlay
   xattrs. This means you can't e.g. store on the rootfs a prepared
   container image for use with overlayfs.

   This adds support for nesting of overlayfs mounts by escaping the
   problematic features and unescaping them when exposing to the
   overlayfs user.

 - Add new mount options for appending lowerdirs

* tag 'ovl-update-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
  ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one
  ovl: refactor layer parsing helpers
  ovl: store and show the user provided lowerdir mount option
  ovl: remove unused code in lowerdir param parsing
  ovl: Add documentation on nesting of overlayfs mounts
  ovl: Add an alternative type of whiteout
  ovl: Support escaped overlay.* xattrs
  ovl: Add OVL_XATTR_TRUSTED/USER_PREFIX_LEN macros
  ovl: Move xattr support to new xattrs.c file
  ovl: do not encode lower fh with upper sb_writers held
  ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held
  ovl: reorder ovl_want_write() after ovl_inode_lock()
  ovl: split ovl_want_write() into two helpers
  ovl: add helper ovl_file_modified()
  ovl: protect copying of realinode attributes to ovl inode
  ovl: punt write aio completion to workqueue
  ovl: propagate IOCB_APPEND flag on writes to realfile
  ovl: use simpler function to convert iocb to rw flags

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
index 26b782c53910..7e16bbcad95e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c
@@ -23,12 +23,7 @@ static int ovl_encode_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry)
 	if (ovl_dentry_upper(dentry))
 		return 0;
 
-	err = ovl_want_write(dentry);
-	if (!err) {
-		err = ovl_copy_up(dentry);
-		ovl_drop_write(dentry);
-	}
-
+	err = ovl_copy_up(dentry);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_warn_ratelimited("failed to copy up on encode (%pd2, err=%i)\n",
 				    dentry, err);