Re: [Linux-stable-mirror] [PATCH 1/1] ovl: Put upperdentry if ovl_check_origin() fails

On Wed, Nov 8, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com wrote:

On Wed, Nov 01, 2017 at 03:37:22PM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:

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If ovl_check_origin() fails, we should put upperdentry. We have a reference on it by now. So goto out_put_upper instead of out.

Fixes: a9d019573e88 ("ovl: lookup non-dir copy-up-origin by file handle") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org #4.12 Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com

Hi Amir, Miklos,

Does this patch look fine? I think its a simple bug fix and should go in 4.15.

Agreed.

Amir.