Make pathwalk use d_is_reg() rather than S_ISREG() to determine whether to honour O_TRUNC. Since this occurs after complete_walk(), the dentry type field cannot change and the inode pointer cannot change as we hold a ref on the dentry, so this should be safe. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 66234b836360..5a8dee5c333e 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -3079,7 +3079,7 @@ finish_open: error = -ENOTDIR; if ((nd->flags & LOOKUP_DIRECTORY) && !d_can_lookup(nd->path.dentry)) goto out; - if (!S_ISREG(nd->inode->i_mode)) + if (!d_is_reg(nd->path.dentry)) will_truncate = false; if (will_truncate) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html