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ovl: warn about orphan metacopy

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When the lower file of a metacopy is inaccessible, -EIO is returned.  For
users not familiar with overlayfs internals, such as myself, the meaning of
this error may not be apparent or easy to determine, since the (metacopy)
file is present and open/stat succeed when accessed outside of the overlay.

Add a rate-limited warning for orphan metacopy to give users a hint when
investigating such errors.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/CAOQ4uxi23Zsmfb4rCed1n=On0NNA5KZD74jjjeyz+et32sk-gg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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Kevin Locke 2020-08-23 08:38:17 -06:00 committed by Miklos Szeredi
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@ -1006,6 +1006,8 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
* Just make sure a corresponding data dentry has been found.
*/
if (d.metacopy || (uppermetacopy && !ctr)) {
pr_warn_ratelimited("metacopy with no lower data found - abort lookup (%pd2)\n",
dentry);
err = -EIO;
goto out_put;
} else if (!d.is_dir && upperdentry && !ctr && origin_path) {