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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 6 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst index 455ca86eb4fc..7da6c30ed596 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst @@ -427,6 +427,9 @@ b) If a file residing on a lower layer is opened for read-only and then memory mapped with MAP_SHARED, then subsequent changes to the file are not reflected in the memory mapping. +c) If a file residing on a lower layer is being executed, then opening that +file for write or truncating the file will not be denied with ETXTBSY. + The following options allow overlayfs to act more like a standards compliant filesystem: diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index 37300e972a39..8aa370e8143a 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -33,12 +33,6 @@ int ovl_setattr(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns, struct dentry *dentry, goto out; if (attr->ia_valid & ATTR_SIZE) { - struct inode *realinode = d_inode(ovl_dentry_real(dentry)); - - err = -ETXTBSY; - if (atomic_read(&realinode->i_writecount) < 0) - goto out_drop_write; - /* Truncate should trigger data copy up as well */ full_copy_up = true; } |