With the addition of an origin chain for regular files, it is possible that we don't have an upperdentry and oe->numlower > 1 for non-dir. So mark a path __OVL_TYPE_MERGE only if it is a directory. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c index 7929cc872df6..19b936b0a551 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct dentry *dentry) type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE; } } else { - if (oe->numlower > 1) + if (oe->numlower > 1 && d_is_dir(dentry)) type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE; } return type; -- 2.13.6 -- 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