Right now OVL_PATH_MERGE is used only for merged directories. But conceptually, a metacopy dentry (backed by a lower data dentry) is a merged entity as well. So mark metacopy dentries as OVL_PATH_MERGE and ovl_rename() makes use of this property later to set redirect on a metacopy file. Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/util.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c index eb6453e5cfa6..92ead380f3ec 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c @@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct dentry *dentry) */ if (oe->numlower) { type |= __OVL_PATH_ORIGIN; - if (d_is_dir(dentry)) + if (d_is_dir(dentry) || + !ovl_has_upperdata(d_inode(dentry))) type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE; } } else { -- 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