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| -rw-r--r-- | fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c index f7caf16f9bec..76cfe9d04e64 100644 --- a/fs/overlayfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/overlayfs/inode.c @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int ovl_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) return err; old_cred = ovl_override_creds(inode->i_sb); - if (!is_upper) + if (!is_upper && !special_file(realinode->i_mode)) mask &= ~(MAY_WRITE | MAY_APPEND); err = inode_permission(realinode, mask); revert_creds(old_cred); |