1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
index ed95272d57a6..795ab65ccdf5 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c
@@ -618,7 +618,8 @@ static int ovl_remove_upper(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir)
          * sole user of this dentry.  Too tricky...  Just unhash for
          * now.
          */
-        d_drop(dentry);
+        if (!err)
+                d_drop(dentry);
         inode_unlock(dir);
 
         return err;