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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index 3f993c114829..98a605b54e2d 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -571,9 +571,11 @@ static void ovl_fill_inode(struct inode *inode, umode_t mode, dev_t rdev, * bits to encode layer), set the same value used for st_ino to i_ino, * so inode number exposed via /proc/locks and a like will be * consistent with d_ino and st_ino values. An i_ino value inconsistent - * with d_ino also causes nfsd readdirplus to fail. When called from - * ovl_new_inode(), ino arg is 0, so i_ino will be updated to real - * upper inode i_ino on ovl_inode_init() or ovl_inode_update(). + * with d_ino also causes nfsd readdirplus to fail. + * + * When called from ovl_create_object() => ovl_new_inode(), with + * ino = 0, i_ino will be updated to consistent value later on in + * ovl_get_inode() => ovl_fill_inode(). */ if (ovl_same_dev(inode->i_sb)) { inode->i_ino = ino; |