Unionfs: fix d_revalidate for corner case

In some cases, lower_dentry may goes to NULL.  Return 0 here to mark it
as invalid dentry.

Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mengyang Li <li.mengyang@stonybrook.edu>

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
index b8bdc0c6c6a645f4ad24c646ebe674aa5bb51373..257022bfb4cd7e0be0da5f572894decc4e6c1b92 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c
@@ -308,6 +308,11 @@ static int unionfs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry,
        parent = unionfs_lock_parent(dentry, UNIONFS_DMUTEX_PARENT);
        unionfs_lock_dentry(dentry, UNIONFS_DMUTEX_CHILD);
 
+       if (!unionfs_lower_dentry(dentry)) {
+               err = 0;
+               goto out;
+       }
+
        valid = __unionfs_d_revalidate(dentry, parent, false);
        if (valid) {
                unionfs_postcopyup_setmnt(dentry);
@@ -316,6 +321,7 @@ static int unionfs_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry,
                d_drop(dentry);
                err = valid;
        }
+out:
        unionfs_unlock_dentry(dentry);
        unionfs_unlock_parent(dentry, parent);
        unionfs_read_unlock(dentry->d_sb);