Miklos Szeredi 0874b629f6 ovl: don't allow datadir only
commit eb3a04a8516ee9b5174379306f94279fc90424c4 upstream.

In theory overlayfs could support upper layer directly referring to a data
layer, but there's no current use case for this.

Originally, when data-only layers were introduced, this wasn't allowed,
only introduced by the "datadir+" feature, but without actually handling
this case, resulting in an Oops.

Fix by disallowing datadir without lowerdir.

Reported-by: Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com>
Fixes: 24e16e385f22 ("ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v6.7
Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Larsson <alexl@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-04-25 10:45:48 +02:00
2025-04-25 10:45:48 +02:00
2025-04-25 10:45:48 +02:00
2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
2025-04-10 14:37:44 +02:00

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