VFS: Handle lower layer dentry/inode in pathwalk

Make use of d_backing_inode() in pathwalk to gain access to an
inode or dentry that's on a lower layer.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index 98e5a52dc68c..e0250bdcc440 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ retry:
         if (res)
                 goto out;
 
-        inode = path.dentry->d_inode;
+        inode = d_backing_inode(path.dentry);
 
         if ((mode & MAY_EXEC) && S_ISREG(inode->i_mode)) {
                 /*