Current multi-layer support overlayfs has a regression in .lookup(). If there is a directory in upperdir and a regular file has same name in lowerdir in a merged directory, lower file is hidden and upper directory is set to opaque in former case. But it is changed in present code. In lowerdir lookup path, if a found inode is not directory, the type checking of previous inode is missing. This inode will be copied to the lowerstack of ovl_entry directly. That will lead to several wrong conditions, for example, the reading of the directory in upperdir may return an error like: ls: reading directory .: Not a directory This patch makes the lowerdir lookup path check the opaque for non-directory file too. Signed-off-by: hujianyang <hujianyang@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index d50e3ed..47ab5f4 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -400,15 +400,17 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, * * FIXME: check for opaqueness maybe better done in remove code. */ - if (!S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode)) { + if (!S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode)) opaque = true; - } else if (prev && (!S_ISDIR(prev->d_inode->i_mode) || - !S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode))) { + + if (prev && (!S_ISDIR(prev->d_inode->i_mode) || + !S_ISDIR(this->d_inode->i_mode))) { if (prev == upperdentry) upperopaque = true; dput(this); break; } + stack[ctr].dentry = this; stack[ctr].mnt = lowerpath.mnt; ctr++; -- 1.6.0.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html