On failure to prepare_creds(), mount fails with a random return value, as err was last set to an integer cast of a valid lower mnt pointer or set to 0 if inodes index feature is enabled. Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 3fe6e52f0626 ("ovl: override creds with the ones from ...") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.7 Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index 44dc2d6ffe0f..1cf5d3538309 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -1090,6 +1090,7 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void *data, int silent) else sb->s_d_op = &ovl_dentry_operations; + err = -ENOMEM; ufs->creator_cred = cred = prepare_creds(); if (!cred) goto out_put_indexdir; -- 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