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diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/util.c b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
index e63e0587535f..6569031af3cd 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/util.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/util.c
@@ -884,6 +884,13 @@ int ovl_check_metacopy_xattr(struct ovl_fs *ofs, struct dentry *dentry)
if (res < 0) {
if (res == -ENODATA || res == -EOPNOTSUPP)
return 0;
+ /*
+ * getxattr on user.* may fail with EACCES in case there's no
+ * read permission on the inode. Not much we can do, other than
+ * tell the caller that this is not a metacopy inode.
+ */
+ if (ofs->config.userxattr && res == -EACCES)
+ return 0;
goto out;
}