From 9391dd00d13c853ab4f2a85435288ae2202e0e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2015 10:39:45 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] fix a braino in ovl_d_select_inode() when opening a directory we want the overlayfs inode, not one from the topmost layer. Reported-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov Tested-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov Signed-off-by: Al Viro --- fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index f140e3dbfb7b..d9da5a4e9382 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -343,6 +343,9 @@ struct inode *ovl_d_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned file_flags) 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); -- 2.20.1