From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any
objections, please let us know.

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[ Upstream commit ee8ac4d61c2cf43bdd427e70db97ac330e61570d ]

AF_UNIX sockets should call mknod on the top layer only and should not attempt
to modify the lower layer in a layered filesystem such as overlayfs.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <redacted>
---
 net/unix/af_unix.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/unix/af_unix.c b/net/unix/af_unix.c
index bba93a6..7950b4c 100644
--- a/net/unix/af_unix.c
+++ b/net/unix/af_unix.c

@@ -959,7 +959,7 @@ static int unix_mknod(const char *sun_path, umode_t mode, struct path *res)
 	 */
 	err = security_path_mknod(&path, dentry, mode, 0);
 	if (!err) {
-		err = vfs_mknod(path.dentry->d_inode, dentry, mode, 0);
+		err = vfs_mknod(d_inode(path.dentry), dentry, mode, 0);
 		if (!err) {
 			res->mnt = mntget(path.mnt);
 			res->dentry = dget(dentry);

-- 
2.5.0