fix a braino in ovl_d_select_inode()

commit 9391dd00d13c853ab4f2a85435288ae2202e0e43 upstream.

when opening a directory we want the overlayfs inode, not one from
the topmost layer.

Reported-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov <temnota.am@gmail.com>
Tested-By: Andrey Jr. Melnikov <temnota.am@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Kamata, Munehisa" <kamatam@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
index 4febea2941024315e46c8ecb8f01c0f23a357d92..ba0db263894655d4d95c634beb7e84bbec2dec31 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c
@@ -342,6 +342,9 @@ struct inode *ovl_d_select_inode(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned file_flags)
        struct path realpath;
        enum ovl_path_type type;
 
+       if (d_is_dir(dentry))
+               return d_backing_inode(dentry);
+
        type = ovl_path_real(dentry, &realpath);
        if (ovl_open_need_copy_up(file_flags, type, realpath.dentry)) {
                err = ovl_want_write(dentry);