From: Rui Wang Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 15:09:59 +0000 (+0800) Subject: ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~4^2~51^2~41 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f639e2e95ea8c06f287f768bc17d03d43480d0d;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir commit ce9113bbcbf45a57c082d6603b9a9f342be3ef74 upstream. ovl_remove_upper() should do d_drop() only after it successfully removes the dir, otherwise a subsequent getcwd() system call will fail, breaking userspace programs. This is to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110491 Signed-off-by: Rui Wang Reviewed-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c index 007e61eb2358..a2b1d7ce3e1a 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c @@ -618,7 +618,8 @@ static int ovl_remove_upper(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir) * sole user of this dentry. Too tricky... Just unhash for * now. */ - d_drop(dentry); + if (!err) + d_drop(dentry); mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex); return err;