With index=on, we copy up lower hardlinks to work dir and move them into index dir. Fix locking to allow work dir and index dir to be the same directory. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c index 9709cf22cab3..e523e63f604f 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -576,7 +576,7 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c) struct inode *udir = d_inode(c->destdir), *wdir = d_inode(c->workdir); struct dentry *temp, *upper; struct ovl_cu_creds cc; - int err; + int err = 0; struct ovl_cattr cattr = { /* Can't properly set mode on creation because of the umask */ .mode = c->stat.mode & S_IFMT, @@ -584,7 +584,11 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_workdir(struct ovl_copy_up_ctx *c) .link = c->link }; - err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(c->workdir, c->destdir); + /* Are we copying up to indexdir which is also workdir? */ + if (c->indexed && c->workdir == c->destdir) + inode_lock_nested(wdir, I_MUTEX_PARENT); + else + err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(c->workdir, c->destdir); if (err) return err; -- 2.17.1