This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ovl: do not set overlay.opaque on non-dir create
to the 4.11-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ovl-do-not-set-overlay.opaque-on-non-dir-create.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 4a99f3c83dc493c8ea84693d78cd792839c8aa64 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:26:40 +0300
Subject: ovl: do not set overlay.opaque on non-dir create
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx>
commit 4a99f3c83dc493c8ea84693d78cd792839c8aa64 upstream.
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>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ static int ovl_create_upper(struct dentr
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);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from amir73il@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.11/ovl-do-not-set-overlay.opaque-on-non-dir-create.patch