This regression can be reproduced with ntfs-3g and overlayfs:
mkdir lower upper work overlay
dd if=/dev/zero of=ntfs.raw bs=1M count=2
mkntfs -F ntfs.raw
mount ntfs.raw lower
touch lower/file.txt
mount -t overlay -o lowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work - overlay
mv overlay/file.txt overlay/file2.txt
mv fails and (misleadingly) prints
mv: cannot move 'overlay/file.txt' to a subdirectory of itself, 'overlay/file2.txt'
The reason is that ovl_copy_fileattr() is triggered due to S_NOATIME being
set on all inodes (by fuse) regardless of fileattr.
ovl_copy_fileattr() tries to retrieve file attributes from lower file, but
that fails because filesystem does not support this ioctl (this should fail
with ENOTTY, but ntfs-3g return EINVAL instead). This failure is
propagated to origial operation (in this case rename) that triggered the
copy-up.
The fix is to ignore ENOTTY and EINVAL errors from fileattr_get() in copy
up. This also requires turning the internal ENOIOCTLCMD into ENOTTY.
As a further measure to prevent unnecessary failures, only try the
fileattr_get/set on upper if there are any flags to copy up.
Side note: a number of filesystems set S_NOATIME (and sometimes other inode
flags) irrespective of fileattr flags. This causes unnecessary calls
during copy up, which might lead to a performance issue, especially if
latency is high. To fix this, the kernel would need to differentiate
between the two cases. E.g. introduce SB_NOATIME_UPDATE, a per-sb variant
of S_NOATIME. SB_NOATIME doesn't work, because that's interpreted as
"filesystem doesn't store an atime attribute"
Reported-and-tested-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name>
Fixes: 72db82115d ("ovl: copy up sync/noatime fileattr flags")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.15
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Miklos Szeredi
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