From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> vfs_mkdir() may succeed and leave the dentry passed to it unhashed and negative. ovl_create_real() is the last caller breaking when that happens. [amir: split re-factoring of ovl_create_temp() to prep patch add comment about unhashed dir after mkdir add pr_warn() if mkdir succeeds and lookup fails] Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 1b181292a624..b33d37d1a87c 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -114,6 +114,37 @@ int ovl_cleanup_and_whiteout(struct dentry *workdir, struct inode *dir, goto out; } +static struct dentry *ovl_mkdir_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, + umode_t mode) +{ + int err; + + err = ovl_do_mkdir(dir, dentry, mode); + if (err) { + dput(dentry); + return ERR_PTR(err); + } + + /* + * vfs_mkdir() may succeed and leave the dentry passed + * to it unhashed and negative. If that happens, try to + * lookup a new hashed and positive dentry. + */ + if (unlikely(d_unhashed(dentry))) { + struct dentry *d; + + d = lookup_one_len(dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_parent, + dentry->d_name.len); + if (IS_ERR(d)) { + pr_warn("overlayfs: failed lookup after mkdir (%pd2, err=%i).\n", + dentry, err); + } + dput(dentry); + dentry = d; + } + return dentry; +} + struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry, struct ovl_cattr *attr) { @@ -135,8 +166,8 @@ struct dentry *ovl_create_real(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *newdentry, break; case S_IFDIR: - err = ovl_do_mkdir(dir, newdentry, attr->mode); - break; + /* mkdir is special... */ + return ovl_mkdir_real(dir, newdentry, attr->mode); case S_IFCHR: case S_IFBLK: -- 2.14.3 -- 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