From: chenying <chenying.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 52d5a0c6bd8a89f460243ed937856354f8f253a3 upstream. If function ovl_instantiate() returns an error, ovl_cleanup will be called and try to remove newdentry from wdir, but the newdentry has been moved to udir at this time. This will causes BUG_ON(victim->d_parent->d_inode != dir) in fs/namei.c:may_delete. Signed-off-by: chenying <chenying.kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 01b39dcc9568 ("ovl: use inode_insert5() to hash a newly created inode") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-unionfs/e6496a94-a161-dc04-c38a-d2544633acb4@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.18 Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -542,8 +542,10 @@ static int ovl_create_over_whiteout(stru goto out_cleanup; } err = ovl_instantiate(dentry, inode, newdentry, hardlink); - if (err) - goto out_cleanup; + if (err) { + ovl_cleanup(udir, newdentry); + dput(newdentry); + } out_dput: dput(upper); out_unlock: