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-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c7
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c12
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index 692ceda3bc21..007e61eb2358 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -903,6 +903,13 @@ static int ovl_rename2(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old,
if (!overwrite && new_is_dir && !old_opaque && new_opaque)
ovl_remove_opaque(newdentry);
+ /*
+ * Old dentry now lives in different location. Dentries in
+ * lowerstack are stale. We cannot drop them here because
+ * access to them is lockless. This could be only pure upper
+ * or opaque directory - numlower is zero. Or upper non-dir
+ * entry - its pureness is tracked by flag opaque.
+ */
if (old_opaque != new_opaque) {
ovl_dentry_set_opaque(old, new_opaque);
if (!overwrite)
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index f42c9407fbad..27ce68f36610 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct dentry *dentry)
if (oe->__upperdentry) {
type = __OVL_PATH_UPPER;
- if (oe->numlower) {
- if (S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
- type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;
- } else if (!oe->opaque) {
+ /*
+ * Non-dir dentry can hold lower dentry from previous
+ * location. Its purity depends only on opaque flag.
+ */
+ if (oe->numlower && S_ISDIR(dentry->d_inode->i_mode))
+ type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;
+ else if (!oe->opaque)
type |= __OVL_PATH_PURE;
- }
} else {
if (oe->numlower > 1)
type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;