This patch hides error about missing lowerdir if MS_SILENT is set.

We use mount(NULL, "/", "overlay", MS_SILENT, NULL) for testing support of
overlayfs: syscall returns -ENODEV if it's not supported. Otherwise kernel
automatically loads module and returns -EINVAL because lowerdir is missing.

Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebni...@yandex-team.ru>
---
 fs/overlayfs/super.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/super.c b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
index bf8537c7f455..00e1d0b3abdd 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/super.c
@@ -840,7 +840,8 @@ static int ovl_fill_super(struct super_block *sb, void 
*data, int silent)
 
        err = -EINVAL;
        if (!ufs->config.lowerdir) {
-               pr_err("overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir'\n");
+               if (!silent)
+                       pr_err("overlayfs: missing 'lowerdir'\n");
                goto out_free_config;
        }
 

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