Commit 294575da authored by Rui Wang's avatar Rui Wang Committed by Tim Gardner

ovl: fix getcwd() failure after unsuccessful rmdir

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1558330

commit ce9113bb upstream.

ovl_remove_upper() should do d_drop() only after it successfully
removes the dir, otherwise a subsequent getcwd() system call will
fail, breaking userspace programs.

This is to fix: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110491Signed-off-by: default avatarRui Wang <rui.y.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarKonstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
parent 8a355264
......@@ -650,7 +650,8 @@ static int ovl_remove_upper(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
* sole user of this dentry. Too tricky... Just unhash for
* now.
*/
d_drop(dentry);
if (!err)
d_drop(dentry);
mutex_unlock(&dir->i_mutex);
return err;
......
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