ovl: strict upper fs requirements for remote upper fs

Overlayfs works sub-optimally with upper fs that has no xattr/d_type/
RENAME_WHITEOUT support. We should basically deprecate support for those
filesystems, but so far, we only issue a warning and don't fail the mount
for the sake of backward compat.  Some features are already being disabled
with no xattr support.

For newly supported remote upper fs, we do not need to worry about backward
compatibility, so we can fail the mount if upper fs is a sub-optimal
filesystem.

This reduces the in-tree remote filesystems supported as upper to just
FUSE, for which the remote upper fs support was added.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>

Author: amir73il

fs/overlayfs/super.c

@@ -1136,6 +1136,8 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 {
 	struct vfsmount *mnt = ofs->upper_mnt;
 	struct dentry *temp;
+	bool rename_whiteout;
+	bool d_type;
 	int fh_type;
 	int err;
 
@@ -1161,11 +1163,8 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	/*
-	 * We allowed this configuration and don't want to break users over
-	 * kernel upgrade. So warn instead of erroring out.
-	 */
-	if (!err)
+	d_type = err;
+	if (!d_type)
 		pr_warn("upper fs needs to support d_type.\n");
 
 	/* Check if upper/work fs supports O_TMPFILE */
@@ -1182,7 +1181,8 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (!err)
+	rename_whiteout = err;
+	if (!rename_whiteout)
 		pr_warn("upper fs does not support RENAME_WHITEOUT.\n");
 
 	/*
@@ -1199,6 +1199,18 @@ static int ovl_make_workdir(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 		vfs_removexattr(ofs->workdir, OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE);
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * We allowed sub-optimal upper fs configuration and don't want to break
+	 * users over kernel upgrade, but we never allowed remote upper fs, so
+	 * we can enforce strict requirements for remote upper fs.
+	 */
+	if (ovl_dentry_remote(ofs->workdir) &&
+	    (!d_type || !rename_whiteout || ofs->noxattr)) {
+		pr_err("upper fs missing required features.\n");
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	/* Check if upper/work fs supports file handles */
 	fh_type = ovl_can_decode_fh(ofs->workdir->d_sb);
 	if (ofs->config.index && !fh_type) {