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-rw-r--r--pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go
index 1da8d5d82..353e2cf5b 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/fsimpl/gofer/gofer.go
@@ -143,9 +143,12 @@ type filesystemOptions struct {
// If overlayfsStaleRead is true, O_RDONLY host FDs provided by the remote
// filesystem may not be coherent with writable host FDs opened later, so
- // mappings of the former must be replaced by mappings of the latter. This
- // is usually only the case when the remote filesystem is an overlayfs
- // mount on Linux < 4.19.
+ // all uses of the former must be replaced by uses of the latter. This is
+ // usually only the case when the remote filesystem is a Linux overlayfs
+ // mount. (Prior to Linux 4.18, patch series centered on commit
+ // d1d04ef8572b "ovl: stack file ops", both I/O and memory mappings were
+ // incoherent between pre-copy-up and post-copy-up FDs; after that patch
+ // series, only memory mappings are incoherent.)
overlayfsStaleRead bool
// If regularFilesUseSpecialFileFD is true, application FDs representing