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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c index 0ce1f9b3a046..46753134533a 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -1086,6 +1086,11 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry, .mnt = ovl_upper_mnt(ofs), }; + /* + * It's safe to assign upperredirect here: the previous + * assignment of happens only if upperdentry is non-NULL, and + * this one only if upperdentry is NULL. + */ upperredirect = ovl_get_redirect_xattr(ofs, &upperpath, 0); if (IS_ERR(upperredirect)) { err = PTR_ERR(upperredirect); |