ovl: enable xino automatically in more cases

So far, with xino=auto, we only enable xino if we know that all
underlying filesystem use 32bit inode numbers.

When users configure overlay with xino=auto, they already declare that
they are ready to handle 64bit inode number from overlay.

It is a very common case, that underlying filesystem uses 64bit ino,
but rarely or never uses the high inode number bits (e.g. tmpfs, xfs).
Leaving it for the users to declare high ino bits are unused with
xino=on is not a recipe for many users to enjoy the benefits of xino.

There appears to be very little reason not to enable xino when users
declare xino=auto even if we do not know how many bits underlying
filesystem uses for inode numbers.

In the worst case of xino bits overflow by real inode number, we
already fall back to the non-xino behavior - real inode number with
unique pseudo dev or to non persistent inode number and overlay st_dev
(for directories).

The only annoyance from auto enabling xino is that xino bits overflow
emits a warning to kmsg. Suppress those warnings unless users explicitly
asked for xino=on, suggesting that they expected high ino bits to be
unused by underlying filesystem.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 53dd094f970e..732ad5495c92 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -317,12 +317,6 @@ static const char *ovl_redirect_mode_def(void)
 	return ovl_redirect_dir_def ? "on" : "off";
 }
 
-enum {
-	OVL_XINO_OFF,
-	OVL_XINO_AUTO,
-	OVL_XINO_ON,
-};
-
 static const char * const ovl_xino_str[] = {
 	"off",
 	"auto",
@@ -1479,8 +1473,8 @@ static int ovl_get_layers(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 
 	/*
 	 * When all layers on same fs, overlay can use real inode numbers.
-	 * With mount option "xino=on", mounter declares that there are enough
-	 * free high bits in underlying fs to hold the unique fsid.
+	 * With mount option "xino=<on|auto>", mounter declares that there are
+	 * enough free high bits in underlying fs to hold the unique fsid.
 	 * If overlayfs does encounter underlying inodes using the high xino
 	 * bits reserved for fsid, it emits a warning and uses the original
 	 * inode number or a non persistent inode number allocated from a
@@ -1492,7 +1486,7 @@ static int ovl_get_layers(struct super_block *sb, struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 		ofs->xino_mode = 0;
 	} else if (ofs->config.xino == OVL_XINO_OFF) {
 		ofs->xino_mode = -1;
-	} else if (ofs->config.xino == OVL_XINO_ON && ofs->xino_mode < 0) {
+	} else if (ofs->xino_mode < 0) {
 		/*
 		 * This is a roundup of number of bits needed for encoding
 		 * fsid, where fsid 0 is reserved for upper fs (even with