When removing an empty opaque directory, then it makes no sense to replace it with an exact replica of itself before removal. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ static int ovl_remove_and_whiteout(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
struct dentry *opaquedir = NULL;
int err;
- if (is_dir) {
+ if (is_dir && OVL_TYPE_MERGE_OR_LOWER(ovl_path_type(dentry))) {
opaquedir = ovl_check_empty_and_clear(dentry);
err = PTR_ERR(opaquedir);
if (IS_ERR(opaquedir))