4.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
commit 4a99f3c83dc493c8ea84693d78cd792839c8aa64 upstream.
The optimization for opaque dir create was wrongly being applied
also to non-dir create.
Fixes: 97c684cc9110 ("ovl: create directories inside merged parent opaque")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir7...@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszer...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ static int ovl_create_upper(struct dentr
if (err)
goto out_dput;
- if (ovl_type_merge(dentry->d_parent)) {
+ if (ovl_type_merge(dentry->d_parent) && d_is_dir(newdentry)) {
/* Setting opaque here is just an optimization, allow to fail */
ovl_set_opaque(dentry, newdentry);
}
