From: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Metacopy dentry/inode is internal to overlay and is never exposed outside of it. Exception is metacopy upper file used for fsync(). Modify d_real() to look for dentries/inode which have data, but also allow matching upper inode without data for the fsync case.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index e0326a686f45..6687d547ec6b 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -101,10 +101,13 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_d_real(struct dentry *dentry, } real = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); - if (real && (!inode || inode == d_inode(real))) + if (real && (inode == d_inode(real))) return real; - real = ovl_dentry_lower(dentry); + if (real && !inode && ovl_has_upperdata(d_inode(dentry))) + return real; + + real = ovl_dentry_lowerdata(dentry); if (!real) goto bug; -- 2.14.3
