Right now we seem to be passing index as "lowerdentry" and origin.dentry as "upperdentry". IIUC, we should pass these parameters in reversed order and this looks like a bug. Fixes: caf70cb2ba5d ("ovl: cleanup orphan index entries") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #4.13 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index 625ed8066570..5ef69bc09e0c 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ int ovl_verify_index(struct dentry *index, struct ovl_path *lower, /* Check if index is orphan and don't warn before cleaning it */ if (d_inode(index)->i_nlink == 1 && - ovl_get_nlink(index, origin.dentry, 0) == 0) + ovl_get_nlink(origin.dentry, index, 0) == 0) err = -ENOENT; dput(origin.dentry); -- 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