From: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>

commit 81a33c1ee941c3bb9ffc6bac8f676be13351344e upstream.

The check if user has changed the overlay file was wrong, causing unneeded
call to ovl_change_flags() including taking f_lock on every file access.

Fixes: d989903058a8 ("ovl: do not generate duplicate fsnotify events for "fake" 
path")
Cc: <sta...@vger.kernel.org> # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/overlayfs/file.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -21,13 +21,16 @@ static char ovl_whatisit(struct inode *i
                return 'm';
 }
 
+/* No atime modificaton nor notify on underlying */
+#define OVL_OPEN_FLAGS (O_NOATIME | FMODE_NONOTIFY)
+
 static struct file *ovl_open_realfile(const struct file *file,
                                      struct inode *realinode)
 {
        struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
        struct file *realfile;
        const struct cred *old_cred;
-       int flags = file->f_flags | O_NOATIME | FMODE_NONOTIFY;
+       int flags = file->f_flags | OVL_OPEN_FLAGS;
 
        old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb);
        realfile = open_with_fake_path(&file->f_path, flags, realinode,
@@ -48,8 +51,7 @@ static int ovl_change_flags(struct file
        struct inode *inode = file_inode(file);
        int err;
 
-       /* No atime modificaton on underlying */
-       flags |= O_NOATIME | FMODE_NONOTIFY;
+       flags |= OVL_OPEN_FLAGS;
 
        /* If some flag changed that cannot be changed then something's amiss */
        if (WARN_ON((file->f_flags ^ flags) & ~OVL_SETFL_MASK))
@@ -102,7 +104,7 @@ static int ovl_real_fdget_meta(const str
        }
 
        /* Did the flags change since open? */
-       if (unlikely((file->f_flags ^ real->file->f_flags) & ~O_NOATIME))
+       if (unlikely((file->f_flags ^ real->file->f_flags) & ~OVL_OPEN_FLAGS))
                return ovl_change_flags(real->file, file->f_flags);
 
        return 0;


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