ovl: relax WARN_ON() on rename to self
In ovl_rename(), if new upper is hardlinked to old upper underneath overlayfs before upper dirs are locked, user will get an ESTALE error and a WARN_ON will be printed. Changes to underlying layers while overlayfs is mounted may result in unexpected behavior, but it shouldn't crash the kernel and it shouldn't trigger WARN_ON() either, so relax this WARN_ON(). Reported-by: <syzbot+bb1836a212e69f8e201a@syzkaller.appspotmail.com> Fixes: 804032fa ("ovl: don't check rename to self") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.9+ Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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