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-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h2
-rw-r--r--fs/overlayfs/util.c10
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index 77405e27cd64..98af19828695 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -13,10 +13,12 @@
enum ovl_path_type {
__OVL_PATH_UPPER = (1 << 0),
__OVL_PATH_MERGE = (1 << 1),
+ __OVL_PATH_ORIGIN = (1 << 2),
};
#define OVL_TYPE_UPPER(type) ((type) & __OVL_PATH_UPPER)
#define OVL_TYPE_MERGE(type) ((type) & __OVL_PATH_MERGE)
+#define OVL_TYPE_ORIGIN(type) ((type) & __OVL_PATH_ORIGIN)
#define OVL_XATTR_PREFIX XATTR_TRUSTED_PREFIX "overlay."
#define OVL_XATTR_OPAQUE OVL_XATTR_PREFIX "opaque"
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index 2bd4c264ccbe..1c1b6ea7bf7c 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -83,11 +83,13 @@ enum ovl_path_type ovl_path_type(struct dentry *dentry)
type = __OVL_PATH_UPPER;
/*
- * Non-dir dentry can hold lower dentry from previous
- * location.
+ * Non-dir dentry can hold lower dentry of its copy up origin.
*/
- if (oe->numlower && d_is_dir(dentry))
- type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;
+ if (oe->numlower) {
+ type |= __OVL_PATH_ORIGIN;
+ if (d_is_dir(dentry))
+ type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;
+ }
} else {
if (oe->numlower > 1)
type |= __OVL_PATH_MERGE;