This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

ovl: Put upperdentry if ovl_check_origin() fails

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: ovl-put-upperdentry-if-ovl_check_origin-fails.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 5455f92b54e516995a9ca45bbf790d3629c27a93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2017 15:37:22 -0400 Subject: ovl: Put upperdentry if ovl_check_origin() fails

From: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com

commit 5455f92b54e516995a9ca45bbf790d3629c27a93 upstream.

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") Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal vgoyal@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi mszeredi@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/overlayfs/namei.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/namei.c @@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ struct dentry *ovl_lookup(struct inode * err = ovl_check_origin(upperdentry, roe->lowerstack, roe->numlower, &stack, &ctr); if (err) - goto out; + goto out_put_upper; }

if (d.redirect) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from vgoyal@redhat.com are

queue-4.14/ovl-put-upperdentry-if-ovl_check_origin-fails.patch