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-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/super.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index 5dbc6789fd5f..110c968dcb3b 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -376,8 +376,14 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
opaque = false;
this = ovl_lookup_real(lowerpath.dentry, &dentry->d_name);
err = PTR_ERR(this);
- if (IS_ERR(this))
+ if (IS_ERR(this)) {
+ /*
+ * If it's positive, then treat ENAMETOOLONG as ENOENT.
+ */
+ if (err == -ENAMETOOLONG && (upperdentry || ctr))
+ continue;
goto out_put;
+ }
if (!this)
continue;
if (ovl_is_whiteout(this)) {