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-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/params.c52
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 49 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/params.c b/fs/overlayfs/params.c
index 8b6bae320e8a..f6ff23fd101c 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/params.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/params.c
@@ -350,12 +350,6 @@ static void ovl_parse_param_drop_lowerdir(struct ovl_fs_context *ctx)
* Set "/lower1", "/lower2", and "/lower3" as lower layers and
* "/data1" and "/data2" as data lower layers. Any existing lower
* layers are replaced.
- * (2) lowerdir=:/lower4
- * Append "/lower4" to current stack of lower layers. This requires
- * that there already is at least one lower layer configured.
- * (3) lowerdir=::/lower5
- * Append data "/lower5" as data lower layer. This requires that
- * there's at least one regular lower layer present.
*/
static int ovl_parse_param_lowerdir(const char *name, struct fs_context *fc)
{
@@ -377,49 +371,9 @@ static int ovl_parse_param_lowerdir(const char *name, struct fs_context *fc)
return 0;
}
- if (strncmp(name, "::", 2) == 0) {
- /*
- * This is a data layer.
- * There must be at least one regular lower layer
- * specified.
- */
- if (ctx->nr == 0) {
- pr_err("data lower layers without regular lower layers not allowed");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- /* Skip the leading "::". */
- name += 2;
- data_layer = true;
- /*
- * A data layer is automatically an append as there
- * must've been at least one regular lower layer.
- */
- append = true;
- } else if (*name == ':') {
- /*
- * This is a regular lower layer.
- * If users want to append a layer enforce that they
- * have already specified a first layer before. It's
- * better to be strict.
- */
- if (ctx->nr == 0) {
- pr_err("cannot append layer if no previous layer has been specified");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- /*
- * Once a sequence of data layers has started regular
- * lower layers are forbidden.
- */
- if (ctx->nr_data > 0) {
- pr_err("regular lower layers cannot follow data lower layers");
- return -EINVAL;
- }
-
- /* Skip the leading ":". */
- name++;
- append = true;
+ if (*name == ':') {
+ pr_err("cannot append lower layer");
+ return -EINVAL;
}
dup = kstrdup(name, GFP_KERNEL);