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Subject[PATCH 03/10] ovl: use correct seek function for directories.
It is incorrect to call generic_llseek_file on a file from a different
filesystem. For that we must use the seek function that the
filesystem defines, which is called by vfs_llseek.

Also, we only want to seek the realfile when is_real is true.
Otherwise we just want to update our own f_pos pointer, so use
generic_llseek_file for that.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
---
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c | 7 +++++--
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c
index 4e032e8..306de45 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.c
@@ -307,8 +307,11 @@ static loff_t ovl_dir_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
loff_t res;
struct ovl_dir_file *od = file->private_data;

- res = generic_file_llseek(od->realfile, offset, origin);
- file->f_pos = od->realfile->f_pos;
+ if (od->is_real) {
+ res = vfs_llseek(od->realfile, offset, origin);
+ file->f_pos = od->realfile->f_pos;
+ } else
+ res = generic_file_llseek(file, offset, origin);

return res;
}



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