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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-09 09:02:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2017-10-09 09:02:35 +0200 |
| commit | 1236d6bb6e19fc72ffc6bbcdeb1bfefe450e54ee (patch) | |
| tree | 47da3feee8e263e8c9352c85cf518e624be3c211 /Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | |
| parent | 750b1a6894ecc9b178c6e3d0a1170122971b2036 (diff) | |
| parent | 8a5776a5f49812d29fe4b2d0a2d71675c3facf3f (diff) | |
Merge 4.14-rc4 into staging-next
We want the staging/iio fixes in here as well to handle merge issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt index 36f528a7fdd6..8caa60734647 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.txt @@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ path as another overlay mount and it may use a lower layer path that is beneath or above the path of another overlay lower layer path. Using an upper layer path and/or a workdir path that are already used by -another overlay mount is not allowed and will fail with EBUSY. Using +another overlay mount is not allowed and may fail with EBUSY. Using partially overlapping paths is not allowed but will not fail with EBUSY. +If files are accessed from two overlayfs mounts which share or overlap the +upper layer and/or workdir path the behavior of the overlay is undefined, +though it will not result in a crash or deadlock. Mounting an overlay using an upper layer path, where the upper layer path was previously used by another mounted overlay in combination with a |