This patch fixes an overlay inode nlink leak in the case where ovl_rename() renames over a non-dir. This is not so critical, because overlay inode doesn't rely on nlink dropping to zero for inode deletion. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 4f0096fee276..a60c075f62f6 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -891,6 +891,7 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old, bool old_opaque; bool new_opaque; bool cleanup_whiteout = false; + bool new_drop_nlink = false; bool overwrite = !(flags & RENAME_EXCHANGE); bool is_dir = d_is_dir(old); bool new_is_dir = d_is_dir(new); @@ -952,6 +953,8 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old, flags |= RENAME_EXCHANGE; cleanup_whiteout = true; } + if (!new_is_dir && new->d_inode) + new_drop_nlink = true; } old_upperdir = ovl_dentry_upper(old->d_parent); @@ -1046,6 +1049,9 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old, if (cleanup_whiteout) ovl_cleanup(old_upperdir->d_inode, newdentry); + if (new_drop_nlink) + drop_nlink(new->d_inode); + ovl_dentry_version_inc(old->d_parent); ovl_dentry_version_inc(new->d_parent); -- 2.7.4 -- 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
