Re: [PATCH] [REGRESSION] ovl: Handle ENOSYS when fileattr support is missing in lower/upper fs

From: Miklos Szeredi
Date: Thu Jan 26 2023 - 08:27:03 EST


On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 at 04:41, Jonathan Katz <jkatz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I believe that I am still having issues occur within Ubuntu 22.10 with
> the 5.19 version of the kernel that might be associated with this
> discussion. I apologize up front for any faux pas I make in writing
> this email.

No need to apologize. The fix in question went into v6.0 of the
upstream kernel. So apparently it's still missing from the distro you
are using.

> An example error from our syslog:
>
> kernel: [2702258.538549] overlayfs: failed to retrieve lower fileattr
> (8020 MeOHH2O
> RecoverySample2-20221219-A-JJL-WebinarHilic10C-TOF-TT54-Neg-1722.d/analysis.tsf,
> err=-38)

Yep, looks like the same bug.

Thanks,
Miklos