@@ -68,12 +68,18 @@ _overlay_mount_dirs $SCRATCH_MNT/up $tmp/{upper,work} \
cat $tmp/mnt/foo
$UMOUNT_PROG $tmp/mnt
+# re-create upper/work to avoid ovl_verify_origin() mount failure
+# when index is enabled
+rm -rf $tmp/{upper,work}
+mkdir -p $tmp/{upper,work}
# mount overlay again using lower dir from SCRATCH_MNT dir
_overlay_mount_dirs $SCRATCH_MNT/low $tmp/{upper,work} \
overlay $tmp/mnt
cat $tmp/mnt/bar
$UMOUNT_PROG $tmp/mnt
+rm -rf $tmp/{upper,work}
+mkdir -p $tmp/{upper,work}
# mount overlay again using SCRATCH_MNT dir
_overlay_mount_dirs $SCRATCH_MNT/ $tmp/{upper,work} \
overlay $tmp/mnt
When overlayfs nfs_export feature is enabled by default in either kernel config or module parameters, this test fails: mount: /tmp/8751/mnt: mount(2) system call failed: Stale file handle. cat: /tmp/8751/mnt/bar: No such file or directory The reason is that nfs_export depends on index feature and with index feature enabled, an upper/work dirs cannot be reused for mounting with a different lower layer. To reproduce the failure do: echo Y > /sys/module/overlay/parameters/index echo Y > /sys/module/overlay/parameters/nfs_export before running the test. Fix the failure by explicitly re-creating upper/work dirs. Reported-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@mykernel.net> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> --- tests/overlay/029 | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) V2: - Update commit message s/index/nfs_export feature - Document how to test failure