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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/super.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/super.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c index def266b5e2a3..9f43f0d303ad 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c @@ -34,14 +34,22 @@ static struct dentry *ovl_d_real(struct dentry *dentry, struct dentry *real = NULL, *lower; int err; - /* It's an overlay file */ + /* + * vfs is only expected to call d_real() with NULL from d_real_inode() + * and with overlay inode from file_dentry() on an overlay file. + * + * TODO: remove @inode argument from d_real() API, remove code in this + * function that deals with non-NULL @inode and remove d_real() call + * from file_dentry(). + */ if (inode && d_inode(dentry) == inode) return dentry; + else if (inode) + goto bug; if (!d_is_reg(dentry)) { - if (!inode || inode == d_inode(dentry)) - return dentry; - goto bug; + /* d_real_inode() is only relevant for regular files */ + return dentry; } real = ovl_dentry_upper(dentry); |