This is required for NFS export. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index e2b47d6494fd..0619a789809e 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -895,9 +895,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, dput(index); kfree(stack); kfree(d.redirect); - d_add(dentry, inode); - - return NULL; + return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); out_free_oe: dentry->d_fsdata = NULL; -- 2.7.4