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We recently ported util-linux to the new mount api. Now the mount(8) tool will by default use the new mount api. While trying hard to fall back to the old mount api gracefully there are still cases where we run into issues that are difficult to handle nicely. Now with mount(8) and libmount supporting the new mount api I expect an increase in the number of bug reports and issues we're going to see with filesystems that don't yet support the new mount api. So it's time we rectify this. For overlayfs specifically we ran into issues where mount(8) passed multiple lower layers as one big string through fsconfig(). But the fsconfig() FSCONFIG_SET_STRING option is limited to 256 bytes in strndup_user(). While this would be fixable by extending the fsconfig() buffer I'd rather encourage users to append layers via multiple fsconfig() calls as the interface allows nicely for this. This has also been requested as a feature before. With this port to the new mount api the following will be possible: fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir", "/lower1", 0); /* set upper layer */ fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "upperdir", "/upper", 0); /* append "/lower2", "/lower3", and "/lower4" */ fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir", ":/lower2:/lower3:/lower4", 0); /* turn index feature on */ fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "index", "on", 0); /* append "/lower5" */ fsconfig(fs_fd, FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir", ":/lower5", 0); Specifying ':' would have been rejected so this isn't a regression. And we can't simply use "lowerdir=/lower" to append on top of existing layers as "lowerdir=/lower,lowerdir=/other-lower" would make "/other-lower" the only lower layer so we'd break uapi if we changed this. So the ':' prefix seems a good compromise. Users can choose to specify multiple layers at once or individual layers. A layer is appended if it starts with ":". This requires that the user has already added at least one layer before. If lowerdir is specified again without a leading ":" then all previous layers are dropped and replaced with the new layers. If lowerdir is specified and empty than all layers are simply dropped. An additional change is that overlayfs will now parse and resolve layers right when they are specified in fsconfig() instead of deferring until super block creation. This allows users to receive early errors. It also allows users to actually use up to 500 layers something which was theoretically possible but ended up not working due to the mount option string passed via mount(2) being too large. This also allows a more privileged process to set config options for a lesser privileged process as the creds for fsconfig() and the creds for fsopen() can differ. We could restrict that they match by enforcing that the creds of fsopen() and fsconfig() match but I don't see why that needs to be the case and allows for a good delegation mechanism. Plus, in the future it means we're able to extend overlayfs mount options and allow users to specify layers via file descriptors instead of paths: fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_PATH{_EMPTY}, "lowerdir", "lower1", dirfd); /* append */ fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_PATH{_EMPTY}, "lowerdir", "lower2", dirfd); /* append */ fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_PATH{_EMPTY}, "lowerdir", "lower3", dirfd); /* clear all layers specified until now */ fsconfig(FSCONFIG_SET_STRING, "lowerdir", NULL, 0); This would be especially nice if users create an overlayfs mount on top of idmapped layers or just in general private mounts created via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE). Those mounts would then never have to appear anywhere in the filesystem. But for now just do the minimal thing. We should probably aim to move more validation into ovl_fs_parse_param() so users get errors before fsconfig(FSCONFIG_CMD_CREATE). But that can be done in additional patches later. Link: util-linux/util-linux#2287 [1] Link: util-linux/util-linux#1992 [2] Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/78702 [3] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/20230530-klagen-zudem-32c0908c2108@brauner [4] Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> --- I'm starting to get the feeling that I stared enough at this and I would need a fresh set of eyes to review it for any bugs. Plus, Amir seems to have conflicting series and I would have to rebase anyway so no point in delaying this any further.
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