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diff --git a/ovl-don-t-remove-non-empty-opaque-directory.patch b/ovl-don-t-remove-non-empty-opaque-directory.patch
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index 1f29e1ef..00000000
--- a/ovl-don-t-remove-non-empty-opaque-directory.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,57 +0,0 @@
-From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
-Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:04:44 +0200
-Subject: [PATCH] ovl: don't remove non-empty opaque directory
-
-When removing an opaque directory we can't just call rmdir() to check for
-emptiness, because the directory will need to be replaced with a whiteout.
-The replacement is done with RENAME_EXCHANGE, which doesn't check
-emptiness.
-
-Solution is just to check emptiness by reading the directory. In the
-future we could add a new rename flag to check for emptiness even for
-RENAME_EXCHANGE to optimize this case.
-
-Reported-by: Vincent Batts <vbatts@gmail.com>
-Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
-Tested-by: Jordi Pujol Palomer <jordipujolp@gmail.com>
-Fixes: 263b4a0fee43 ("ovl: dont replace opaque dir")
-Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.0+
----
- fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 24 +++++++++++++++++++-----
- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
-
-diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
-index d139405d2bfa..2578a0c0677d 100644
---- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
-+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
-@@ -506,11 +506,25 @@ static int ovl_remove_and_whiteout(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
- struct dentry *opaquedir = NULL;
- int err;
-
-- 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))
-- goto out;
-+ if (is_dir) {
-+ if (OVL_TYPE_MERGE_OR_LOWER(ovl_path_type(dentry))) {
-+ opaquedir = ovl_check_empty_and_clear(dentry);
-+ err = PTR_ERR(opaquedir);
-+ if (IS_ERR(opaquedir))
-+ goto out;
-+ } else {
-+ LIST_HEAD(list);
-+
-+ /*
-+ * When removing an empty opaque directory, then it
-+ * makes no sense to replace it with an exact replica of
-+ * itself. But emptiness still needs to be checked.
-+ */
-+ err = ovl_check_empty_dir(dentry, &list);
-+ ovl_cache_free(&list);
-+ if (err)
-+ goto out;
-+ }
- }
-
- err = ovl_lock_rename_workdir(workdir, upperdir);