linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/8] Unionfs: delete whiteouts in sticky directories

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Message-Id: <11940529693030-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Fri,  2 Nov 2007 21:22:42 -0400
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@....linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org,
	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
Subject: [PATCH 1/8] Unionfs: delete whiteouts in sticky directories

This is needed to maintain Unix semantics.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
---
 fs/unionfs/inode.c |   17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/inode.c b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
index 6ca52f4..f4facf4 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/inode.c
@@ -90,6 +90,23 @@ static int unionfs_create(struct inode *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
 			err = vfs_unlink(lower_dir_dentry->d_inode, wh_dentry);
 			unlock_dir(lower_dir_dentry);
 
+			/*
+			 * Whiteouts are special files and should be deleted
+			 * no matter what (as if they never existed), in
+			 * order to allow this create operation to succeed.
+			 * This is especially important in sticky
+			 * directories: a whiteout may have been created by
+			 * one user, but the newly created file may be
+			 * created by another user.  Therefore, in order to
+			 * maintain Unix semantics, if the vfs_unlink above
+			 * ailed, then we have to try to directly unlink the
+			 * whiteout.  Note: in the ODF version of unionfs,
+			 * whiteout are handled much more cleanly.
+			 */
+			if (err == -EPERM) {
+				struct inode *inode = lower_dir_dentry->d_inode;
+				err = inode->i_op->unlink(inode, wh_dentry);
+			}
 			if (err) {
 				printk(KERN_ERR "unionfs: create: could not "
 				       "unlink whiteout, err = %d\n", err);
-- 
1.5.2.2

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