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commit 355139a8 upstream.

The code in cap_inode_getsecurity(), introduced by commit 8db6c34f
("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities"), should use
d_find_any_alias() instead of d_find_alias() do handle unhashed dentry
correctly. This is needed, for example, if execveat() is called with an
open but unlinked overlayfs file, because overlayfs unhashes dentry on
unlink.
This is a regression of real life application, first reported at
https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-unionfs/msg05363.html

Below reproducer and setup can reproduce the case.
  const char* exec="echo";
  const char *newargv[] = { "echo", "hello", NULL};
  const char *newenviron[] = { NULL };
  int fd, err;

  fd = open(exec, O_PATH);
  unlink(exec);
  err = syscall(322/*SYS_execveat*/, fd, "", newargv, newenviron,
AT_EMPTY_PATH);
  if(err<0)
    fprintf(stderr, "execveat: %s\n", strerror(errno));

gcc compile into ~/test/a.out
mount...