diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
index 75eeee08d8481a91b6598b67cb3c7a9db32e0581..ffc73600216b656db8407f7b0e99ba84a4341aac 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c
@@ -878,14 +878,14 @@ static bool ovl_open_need_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, int flags)
 	return true;
 }
 
-int ovl_open_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int file_flags)
+int ovl_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, int flags)
 {
 	int err = 0;
 
-	if (ovl_open_need_copy_up(dentry, file_flags)) {
+	if (ovl_open_need_copy_up(dentry, flags)) {
 		err = ovl_want_write(dentry);
 		if (!err) {
-			err = ovl_copy_up_flags(dentry, file_flags);
+			err = ovl_copy_up_flags(dentry, flags);
 			ovl_drop_write(dentry);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/file.c b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
index 986313da0c8895352d2216f0fb0b78d3854064fb..0c810f20f778b9e5884fa2524e2bd2128d6b6260 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/file.c
@@ -116,11 +116,10 @@ static int ovl_real_fdget(const struct file *file, struct fd *real)
 
 static int ovl_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 {
-	struct dentry *dentry = file_dentry(file);
 	struct file *realfile;
 	int err;
 
-	err = ovl_open_maybe_copy_up(dentry, file->f_flags);
+	err = ovl_maybe_copy_up(file_dentry(file), file->f_flags);
 	if (err)
 		return err;
 
@@ -390,7 +389,7 @@ static long ovl_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 		if (ret)
 			return ret;
 
-		ret = ovl_copy_up_with_data(file_dentry(file));
+		ret = ovl_maybe_copy_up(file_dentry(file), O_WRONLY);
 		if (!ret) {
 			ret = ovl_real_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
 
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index d9c16ceebfe7daa94bf5d393cd48eee32baec4ec..80fb664267609223245fc598614325131664d21e 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@ extern const struct file_operations ovl_file_operations;
 int ovl_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry);
 int ovl_copy_up_with_data(struct dentry *dentry);
 int ovl_copy_up_flags(struct dentry *dentry, int flags);
-int ovl_open_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int file_flags);
+int ovl_maybe_copy_up(struct dentry *dentry, int flags);
 int ovl_copy_xattr(struct dentry *old, struct dentry *new);
 int ovl_set_attr(struct dentry *upper, struct kstat *stat);
 struct ovl_fh *ovl_encode_real_fh(struct dentry *real, bool is_upper);