ovl_remove_upper() should do d_drop() only after it successfully removes the dir, otherwise a subsequent getcwd() system call will fail, breaking userspace programs. This is to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110491 Signed-off-by: Rui Wang <rui.y.wang@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 692ceda..36d6a5b 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -618,7 +618,8 @@ static int ovl_remove_upper(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir) * sole user of this dentry. Too tricky... Just unhash for * now. */ - d_drop(dentry); + if (!err) + d_drop(dentry); mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); return err; -- 1.7.5.4 -- 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
