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Kaixuxia repors that it's possible to crash overlayfs by removing the
whiteout on the upper layer before creating a directory over it. This is a
reproducer:

mkdir lower upper work merge
touch lower/file
mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge
rm merge/file
ls -al merge/file
rm upper/file
ls -al merge/
mkdir merge/file

Before commencing with a vfs_rename(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) verify that the
lookup of "upper" is positive and is a whiteout, and return ESTALE
otherwise.

Reported by: kaixuxia <xiakaixu1987@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: e9be9d5e76e3 ("overlay filesystem")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18
5e127580 Wed Oct 31 06:15:23 CDT 2018 Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> ovl: check whiteout in ovl_create_over_whiteout()

Kaixuxia repors that it's possible to crash overlayfs by removing the
whiteout on the upper layer before creating a directory over it. This is a
reproducer:

mkdir lower upper work merge
touch lower/file
mount -t overlay overlay -olowerdir=lower,upperdir=upper,workdir=work merge
rm merge/file
ls -al merge/file
rm upper/file
ls -al merge/
mkdir merge/file

Before commencing with a vfs_rename(..., RENAME_EXCHANGE) verify that the
lookup of "upper" is positive and is a whiteout, and return ESTALE
otherwise.

Reported by: kaixuxia <xiakaixu1987@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
Fixes: e9be9d5e76e3 ("overlay filesystem")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18