Metacopy dentry/inode is internal to overlay and is never exposed outside of it. Modify d_real() to look for only dentries/inode which have data and which are not metacopy. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index ce90b6e3ce76..c97b5abda954 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -101,10 +101,11 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_d_real(struct dentry *dentry, } real = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); - if (real && (!inode || inode == d_inode(real))) + if (real && ovl_has_upperdata(d_inode(dentry)) && + (!inode || inode == d_inode(real))) return real; - real = ovl_dentry_lower(dentry); + real = ovl_dentry_lowerdata(dentry); if (!real) goto bug; -- 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