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authorAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>2017-06-05 21:44:49 +0200
committerMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>2017-07-04 22:03:15 +0200
commitf681eb1d5c02c9e79775e10363057d034c720efc (patch)
treeea4f2c8b94ba19eacdd56a912a59187d3122ae17 /fs/overlayfs
parentMerge tag 'uuid-for-4.13' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/uuid into over... (diff)
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ovl: fix nlink leak in ovl_rename()
This patch fixes an overlay inode nlink leak in the case where ovl_rename() renames over a non-dir. This is not so critical, because overlay inode doesn't rely on nlink dropping to zero for inode deletion. Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/dir.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index a63a71656e9b..fcfa7de12ad5 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -1046,6 +1046,13 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old,
if (cleanup_whiteout)
ovl_cleanup(old_upperdir->d_inode, newdentry);
+ if (overwrite && d_inode(new)) {
+ if (new_is_dir)
+ clear_nlink(d_inode(new));
+ else
+ drop_nlink(d_inode(new));
+ }
+
ovl_dentry_version_inc(old->d_parent);
ovl_dentry_version_inc(new->d_parent);