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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/overlayfs/readdir.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c index 7dfe381c2cd8..1a8c39887992 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/readdir.c @@ -593,8 +593,15 @@ static struct ovl_dir_cache *ovl_cache_get_impure(struct path *path) return ERR_PTR(res); } if (list_empty(&cache->entries)) { - /* Good oportunity to get rid of an unnecessary "impure" flag */ - ovl_do_removexattr(ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), OVL_XATTR_IMPURE); + /* + * A good opportunity to get rid of an unneeded "impure" flag. + * Removing the "impure" xattr is best effort. + */ + if (!ovl_want_write(dentry)) { + ovl_do_removexattr(ovl_dentry_upper(dentry), + OVL_XATTR_IMPURE); + ovl_drop_write(dentry); + } ovl_clear_flag(OVL_IMPURE, d_inode(dentry)); kfree(cache); return NULL; |