From: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx>
Build the union stack for directories as we look them up. Create the
topmost directory if it doesn't exist.
Original-author: Valerie Aurora <vaurora@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/namei.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f81f24e..3ac07be 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -1190,8 +1190,21 @@ static int __lookup_union(struct nameidata *nd, struct qstr *name,
goto out_found_file;
}
- /* XXX - do nothing, more in later patches */
- path_put(&lower);
+ /* Now we know the target is a directory. Create a matching
+ * topmost directory if one doesn't already exist, and add this
+ * layer's directory to the union stack for the topmost
+ * directory.
+ */
+ if (!topmost->dentry->d_inode) {
+ err = union_create_topmost_dir(&parent, name, topmost,
+ &lower);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_err;
+ }
+
+ err = union_add_dir(topmost, &lower, i);
+ if (err)
+ goto out_err;
}
return 0;
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