Debian Bug report logs - #836211
dpkg: Cannot upgrade some packages on overlayfs: Invalid cross-device link

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Package: linux; Maintainer for linux is Debian Kernel Team <[email protected]>;

Affects: dpkg

Reported by: Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>

Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:18:06 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: upstream

Found in versions 4.12.6-1, 4.6.4-1

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Date: Sun, 2 May 2021 09:06:49 +0200
From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>
To: Raphael Hertzog <[email protected]>, [email protected]
Cc: Guillem Jover <[email protected]>,
	Felipe Sateler <[email protected]>
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Hi,

On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 03:01:26PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Control: reopen -1
> Control: notfixed -1 4.10.0-1~exp1
> Control: found -1 4.12.6-1
> 
> On Fri, 25 Aug 2017, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > I verified today that the issue is gone with Linux 4.12 and apparently
> > the appropriate patches have been merged for Linux 4.10 already (merged by
> > linus in commit ff0f962ca3c38239b299a70e7eea27abfbb979c3).
> 
> I don't know how I did my check last time, but I was wrong. The changes
> merged above fixed issues about tools being confused with the unexpected
> st_dev values on files but they did not fix the fact that overlayfs
> might return EXDEV when renaming a directory that is part of the lower
> layer.
> 
> So I'm opening the bug again.

Doing some maintenance on open kernel bugs. Is this by now still an
issue with recent kernels? If not can we close this bug? Part of the
isuses at leas were fixed in 4.10.0-1~exp1, but what about the
remaining or followup issue mentioned by Raphael?

Regards,
Salvatore

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