[RFC PATCH 05/35] ovl: copy up inode flags

[Miklos Szeredi]

On inode creation copy certain inode flags from the underlying real inode
to the overlay inode.

This is in preparation for moving overlay functionality out of the VFS.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
---
 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 7 +++++++
 fs/overlayfs/util.c      | 1 +
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index eef720ef0f07..265cb288417a 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -357,6 +357,13 @@ static inline void ovl_copyattr(struct inode *from, struct 
inode *to)
        to->i_ctime = from->i_ctime;
 }
 
+static inline void ovl_copyflags(struct inode *from, struct inode *to)
+{
+       unsigned int mask = S_SYNC | S_IMMUTABLE | S_APPEND | S_NOATIME;
+
+       inode_set_flags(to, from->i_flags & mask, mask);
+}
+
 /* dir.c */
 extern const struct inode_operations ovl_dir_inode_operations;
 struct dentry *ovl_lookup_temp(struct dentry *workdir);
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 11e62e70733a..586f8d7440bb 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -310,6 +310,7 @@ void ovl_inode_init(struct inode *inode, struct dentry 
*upperdentry,
                OVL_I(inode)->lower = igrab(d_inode(lowerdentry));
 
        ovl_copyattr(realinode, inode);
+       ovl_copyflags(realinode, inode);
        if (!inode->i_ino)
                inode->i_ino = realinode->i_ino;
 }
-- 
2.14.3