ovl: fix false positive ESTALE on lookup
commit 939ae4ef upstream. Commit b9ac5c27 ("ovl: hash overlay non-dir inodes by copy up origin") verifies that the origin lower inode stored in the overlayfs inode matched the inode of a copy up origin dentry found by lookup. There is a false positive result in that check when lower fs does not support file handles and copy up origin cannot be followed by file handle at lookup time. The false negative happens when finding an overlay inode in cache on a copied up overlay dentry lookup. The overlay inode still 'remembers' the copy up origin inode, but the copy up origin dentry is not available for verification. Relax the check in case copy up origin dentry is not available. Fixes: b9ac5c27 ("ovl: hash overlay non-dir inodes by copy up...") Reported-by: Jordi Pujol <jordipujolp@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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