4.1-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Al Viro <[email protected]> commit 9391dd00d13c853ab4f2a85435288ae2202e0e43 upstream. when opening a directory we want the overlayfs inode, not one from the topmost layer. Reported-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov <[email protected]> Tested-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[email protected]> Cc: "Kamata, Munehisa" <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ struct inode *ovl_d_select_inode(struct struct path realpath; enum ovl_path_type type; + if (d_is_dir(dentry)) + return d_backing_inode(dentry); + type = ovl_path_real(dentry, &realpath); if (ovl_open_need_copy_up(file_flags, type, realpath.dentry)) { err = ovl_want_write(dentry); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
