The optimization for opaque dir create was wrongly being applied
also to non-dir create.
Fixes: 97c684cc9110 ("ovl: create directories inside merged parent opaque")
Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.10
---
fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 6ef35e8..5d64550 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static int ovl_create_upper(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode,
if (err)
goto out_dput;
- if (ovl_type_merge(dentry->d_parent)) {
+ if (ovl_type_merge(dentry->d_parent) && d_is_dir(newdentry)) {
/* Setting opaque here is just an optimization, allow to fail */
ovl_set_opaque(dentry, newdentry);
}
--
2.7.4