4.11-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> commit 8137ae26d25303e7b5cfb418fd28b976461e5b6e upstream. Fixes: 42f269b92540 ("ovl: rearrange code in ovl_copy_up_locked()") Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c @@ -269,12 +269,13 @@ static int ovl_copy_up_locked(struct den temp = ovl_do_tmpfile(upperdir, stat->mode); else temp = ovl_lookup_temp(workdir, dentry); - err = PTR_ERR(temp); - if (IS_ERR(temp)) - goto out1; - err = 0; - if (!tmpfile) + if (IS_ERR(temp)) { + err = PTR_ERR(temp); + temp = NULL; + } + + if (!err && !tmpfile) err = ovl_create_real(wdir, temp, &cattr, NULL, true); if (new_creds) {