ovl: mount read-only if workdir can't be created

OpenWRT folks reported that overlayfs fails to mount if upper fs is full,
because workdir can't be created.  Wordir creation can fail for various
other reasons too.

There's no reason that the mount itself should fail, overlayfs can work
fine without a workdir, as long as the overlay isn't modified.

So mount it read-only and don't allow remounting read-write.

Add a couple of WARN_ON()s for the impossible case of workdir being used
despite being read-only.

Reported-by: Bastian Bittorf <bittorf@bluebottle.com> 
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 24f640441bd9..84d693d37428 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -299,6 +299,9 @@ int ovl_copy_up_one(struct dentry *parent, struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct cred *override_cred;
 	char *link = NULL;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!workdir))
+		return -EROFS;
+
 	ovl_path_upper(parent, &parentpath);
 	upperdir = parentpath.dentry;
 
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 2578a0c0677d..692ceda3bc21 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -222,6 +222,9 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_clear_empty(struct dentry *dentry,
 	struct kstat stat;
 	int err;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!workdir))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EROFS);
+
 	err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(workdir, upperdir);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
@@ -322,6 +325,9 @@ static int ovl_create_over_whiteout(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
 	struct dentry *newdentry;
 	int err;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!workdir))
+		return -EROFS;
+
 	err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(workdir, upperdir);
 	if (err)
 		goto out;
@@ -506,6 +512,9 @@ static int ovl_remove_and_whiteout(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
 	struct dentry *opaquedir = NULL;
 	int err;
 
+	if (WARN_ON(!workdir))
+		return -EROFS;
+
 	if (is_dir) {
 		if (OVL_TYPE_MERGE_OR_LOWER(ovl_path_type(dentry))) {
 			opaquedir = ovl_check_empty_and_clear(dentry);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 5f0d1993e6e3..bf8537c7f455 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ static int ovl_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 {
 	struct ovl_fs *ufs = sb->s_fs_info;
 
-	if (!(*flags & MS_RDONLY) && !ufs->upper_mnt)
+	if (!(*flags & MS_RDONLY) && (!ufs->upper_mnt || !ufs->workdir))
 		return -EROFS;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -925,9 +925,10 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent)
 		ufs->workdir = ovl_workdir_create(ufs->upper_mnt, workpath.dentry);
 		err = PTR_ERR(ufs->workdir);
 		if (IS_ERR(ufs->workdir)) {
-			pr_err("overlayfs: failed to create directory %s/%s\n",
-			       ufs->config.workdir, OVL_WORKDIR_NAME);
-			goto out_put_upper_mnt;
+			pr_warn("overlayfs: failed to create directory %s/%s (errno: %i); mounting read-only\n",
+				ufs->config.workdir, OVL_WORKDIR_NAME, -err);
+			sb->s_flags |= MS_RDONLY;
+			ufs->workdir = NULL;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -997,7 +998,6 @@ out_put_lower_mnt:
 	kfree(ufs->lower_mnt);
 out_put_workdir:
 	dput(ufs->workdir);
-out_put_upper_mnt:
 	mntput(ufs->upper_mnt);
 out_put_lowerpath:
 	for (i = 0; i < numlower; i++)