[Miklos, Amir - is there anything subtle I'm missing here?] The situation is the same as for __d_obtain_alias() (which is what that thing is parallel to) - if we find a preexisting alias, we want to grab it, drop the inode and return the alias we'd found. The only thing d_instantiate_anon() does compared to that is spurious security_d_instiate() that has already been done to that dentry with exact same arguments. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/export.c b/fs/overlayfs/export.c index 73c9775215b3..a64195b194c2 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/export.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/export.c @@ -317,29 +317,32 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_obtain_alias(struct super_block *sb, ovl_set_flag(OVL_UPPERDATA, inode); dentry = d_find_any_alias(inode); - if (!dentry) { - dentry = d_alloc_anon(inode->i_sb); - if (!dentry) - goto nomem; - oe = ovl_alloc_entry(lower ? 1 : 0); - if (!oe) - goto nomem; - - if (lower) { - oe->lowerstack->dentry = dget(lower); - oe->lowerstack->layer = lowerpath->layer; - } - dentry->d_fsdata = oe; - if (upper_alias) - ovl_dentry_set_upper_alias(dentry); + if (dentry) + goto out_iput; + + dentry = d_alloc_anon(inode->i_sb); + if (unlikely(!dentry)) + goto nomem; + oe = ovl_alloc_entry(lower ? 1 : 0); + if (!oe) + goto nomem; + + if (lower) { + oe->lowerstack->dentry = dget(lower); + oe->lowerstack->layer = lowerpath->layer; } + dentry->d_fsdata = oe; + if (upper_alias) + ovl_dentry_set_upper_alias(dentry); return d_instantiate_anon(dentry, inode); nomem: - iput(inode); dput(dentry); - return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); + dentry = ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM); +out_iput: + iput(inode); + return dentry; } /* Get the upper or lower dentry in stach whose on layer @idx */