From a105d685a8483985a01776411de191a726b48132 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:39:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ovl: fix remove/copy-up race ovl_remove_and_whiteout() needs to check if upper dentry exists or not after having locked upper parent directory. Previously we used a "type" value computed before locking the upper parent directory, which is susceptible to racing with copy-up. There's a similar check in ovl_check_empty_and_clear(). This one is not actually racy, since copy-up doesn't change the "emptyness" property of a directory. Add a comment to this effect, and check the existence of upper dentry locally to make the code cleaner. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Reading git-format-patch failed